This month’s game day was something of a bust in one respect: we only had two guests, who already hang out often with each other (and with Eileene), so there wasn’t much in the way of contact with distant friends. But that shortcoming had a silver lining, in that Tor and Nik are both willing […]
I’m reading my second Lois Mcmaster Bujold book, both late entries in the “Vorkosigan saga,†which I take to be a series of stories about the rise and rise of Miles Vorkosigan, born to the ruling family of an interstellar empire but tainted by physical defects in a culture that places a heavy stigma on […]
I got an exposure to the board game 7 Wonders last night. Players represent the home cities of the seven ancient wonders of the world and try to rack up the most victory points by the end of the game. Building your wonder can play a big role in this, but doesn’t strictly have to; […]
Watched Azur and Asmar, a full-length animated film from Belgium, I believe, a fairy tale of two boys thick with love and rivalry. The boys are as light and dark, but otherwise alike as twins. Twins who fight a lot. One might say incessantly. Symmetry between the two, and between their native cultures, is the […]
Watched Azur and Asmar, a full-length animated film from Belgium, I believe, a fairy tale of two boys thick with love and rivalry. The boys are as light and dark, but otherwise alike as twins. Twins who fight a lot. One might say incessantly. Symmetry between the two, and between their native cultures, is the […]
I checked out “Summer Wars†from the local library this week. Anime has lost a lot of its sparkle for me, as it does for a lot of fans: what is at first a radical new animative form with amazing explosions and camera swoops, wacky humor, and plenty of cute eventually becomes familiar, and from […]