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Painting in Miniature 4: Finishing up Skaven
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I still haven’t caught up on photographing my backlog of painted models since I started this hobby, so these models are all about 2 years old. More importantly, they represent my first “completed” Warhammer army, including spells and special terrain…and […]

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Minor Key Music 84: Germs – Manimal
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Germs were a hardcore band that were probably best known (at least to those outside the punk scene) from their infamous appearance on The Decline of Western Civilization. In that documentary (covering the LA …

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Top 5 Least Frightening Black Metal Fashion Choices
April 30, 2021

I am fully aware that even the "frightening" black metal outfits are mostly just kind of silly and impractical (depending on how extreme they go with the carpentry nails). But, if you can buy …

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Isley’s Top 5 Biggest Film School Blunders
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I know, I know, the real blunder here is pursuing a graduate degree in the humanities, but if we move past the obvious, my time spent obtaining a masters degree in film was filled with …

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Minor Key Music 83: Uriah Heep – Easy Livin’
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Uriah Heep, I had always assumed, was one of those bands like Molly Hatchet. You know the bands I'm talking about, the ones whose music is light years behind the potential of their album …

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OTGP 4: Trevanian’s Nicholai Hel in Shibumi
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I read many different types of books, but what I love to read the most is a truly badass book.  From the day I first opened up an Edgar Rice Burroughs novel as a child, …

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My Top 5 Tichu Memories
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I went over the mechanics (in exhausting detail) of my favorite card game Tichu last time, but today, to drive home just how good the game is, I wanted to talk about some of my …

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Brilliant Board Games 2 – Tichu
November 30, 2020

Though my board game tastes definitely skew a certain direction, you don't always have to hide a great game system behind a mountain of plastic to get my attention. Today's game, a partnership climbing card …

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Minor Key Music 82: Switchblade Symphony – Wallflower
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Goth, like black metal, went through a few waves on its journey from post-punk bands with bad hair to emo kids dancing under bridges (still with bad hair). Today's band, Switchblade Symphony, comes from …

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Heavy metal has always been just a little too white for it to ever claim any level of racial enlightenment. And, when you take a genre that is already just a tiny step down …

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