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Two years ago (February, 2017 to be exact) I boldly went into one of the final unexplored (for myself) frontiers of nerdy-ass hobbies: I started painting miniatures. This series is an attempt to document …
The genre of Heavy Metal is absolutely no stranger to homoerotic album covers. For every album cover featuring an un-erotically posed dragon or wizard, there are at least TWO covers featuring oiled-up, ridiculously over-muscled …
In a wide ranging interview with Indiewire over the weekend, showrunners JD Payne and Patrick McKay dropped a LOT of info about the new Lord of the Rings television adaptation. And, while a lot …
Looking over the past few years of these "best of" posts, I've noticed that after my top 5, I usually end up with more and more reservations about the albums I call the "best" of …
Long ago, in an Age of the Sun far removed from our own, our world was a place of enchantment and lure undreamed of to our current race of Men. However, not all of …
I suppose I've always been miniature-painting-curious--even all the way back to my first trip into a game shop in junior high. Unfortunately, none of my friends played games back then, so the cool-ass D&D …
Ten years ago today, I moved my thriving (for certain definitions of "thriving") Myspace blog over to the big-time: a real website. In honor of the occasion, I thought I'd revisit one of my most …
Black metal is a grim, hateful genre of music where misanthropy is celebrated above all else. In that spirit, today's post will examine those rarefied black metal bands who have committed to perpetrating that grimmest …
After a carefully (and repeatedly) xeroxed black and white photo of yourself wearing a robe in the snow, a proper logo is one of the most important elements in any black metal band's packaging. The …
In the early days of computing, before Graphical User Interfaces were commonplace, nerds still needed games to play on their primitive computers. Thus the text based interactive fiction game was born. While the Zork series …