Despite my best efforts, I must admit that many of my musical tastes occasionally stray past the DISCO line in the sand that all metalheads are conditioned to never cross. False or not, Disco is the basis of pretty much all the dance/electronica/electronic music that I enjoy when I’m not listening to beats of a…

I’ve talked before about how little exposure I had to pop music growing up. With no radio and only my Astor Piazzolla and Baroque cassette tapes to listen to, most of the music that got heavy radio play went unnoticed for much of my childhood. Which means that Depeche Mode might have been the first…

Looking through my rather extensive collection, I actually don’t have a lot of horror games. Hundreds of fantasy board games, even dozens of Lord of the Rings games specifically, but probably 20 games appropriate for spooky season. And while many of them like Horrified, or Mr. Jack are fun enough (and probably better games than…

As someone who never listened to the radio, I’ve got some massive holes in my pop culture knowledge and even in my 40s there are fairly well-known bands I really have no experience with. Classic rock (nowadays considered…oldies? Post-classical?) band Creedence Clearwater Revival is one of those bands that never really drifted through my transom…

I’ve been playing games regularly for 25 years, and in that time I’ve really dialed in on what I like and don’t like when it comes to board games.  And despite today’s game being an online only abstract game that is (or at least seems to be) incredibly random (all traits I usually avoid in…