Part of a series of fiction concerning a Falls Society D&D game. Drexxa was born at dawn. She was a healthy baby and her parents were happy. They didn’t concern themselves much with the fire in the woods. They couldn’t see the flames were bright green. *** Years before she was born, two fighters were introduced and fell in love.…
Art & Music
Round Table: Pick Your Seven
V-Day: You’re being banished to an island with no means of communication. You’re allowed to bring 7 movies, songs and books each. What will be your choices? We’re assuming that there’s a Lost style bunker where you have everything you need for basic survival and can watch movies. DP: I was just falling asleep in my office. Finally something interesting to do!…
300 Albums: Tool – Opiate
Tool – Opiate Opiate is a badass album, and it was my first real introduction to Tool. I distinctly remember purchasing Opiate in the electronics section at our local FRED MEYER when I was 16 years old. It was only $10, while most CDs at the time (including the other Tool albums on the shelf) were $15. The reason it…
300 Albums: Social Distortion – Sex, Love and Rock ‘n’ Roll
Social Distortion – Sex, Love and Rock ‘n’ Roll I’m not sure why I ever owned this album. Social Distortion has never been one of my favorite bands, and this album was released in 2004- long after the bulk of my CD buying was done. If you were to take a poll of my friends and ask them what bands…
Roundtable: Christmas Songs
TIG: The right speaker on my headphones goes out now and then. When it does I make an annoyed growl, that I recognize as Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein’s Monster. The old Universal movies are something I remember watching frequently and with great relish with my mother as a child. Which made me think, again, of Boris Karloff singing, “You’re a Mean…
A Dying Cubs Fan’s Last Request
The late great Steve Goodman and a song that rings more true with each passing year that the Cubs don’t make/win the World Series. The line about the last time the Cubs won the National Pennant was when we dropped the bomb on Japan, still true today, 30+ years after this song was written. Cubs haven’t won the World Series since 1908. With the Cubs out of the playoffs, my fellow faithful can lament: “There’s always next century.”
Falls Society Roundtable: The Rise & Fall of Springfield
Being children of the 80s and 90s it was impossible to ignore The Simpsons. Nor would we want to. We went out of our way to be interrupted, influenced, and injected with our favorite family from 742 Evergreen Terrace. Get yourself a Butterfinger, put on Simpson’s Sing the Blues and lets nerd out (Comic Book Guy style) to the biggest…
Mixtape: 80’s Montage
Being children of the 80’s this playlist is for us! Get your Trapper Keeper, Swatch Watch, and leg warmers, it’s time to boogie! Movies drive this playlist. Some of these songs may not have had an awesome story telling montage…but they could’ve! Personal favorites: Send Me an Angel from The Wizard and We Don’t Need Another Hero from Mad Max:…