Roman Numeral J

 It occurred to me this morning *, while I was driving around listening to A History of the World in 6 Glasses , and a reference was made to...

What do semicolons do, really? (That being said, it seems a real missed opportunity in modern American prose {modern poets use semicolons co...

 We were sitting in the hot tub of the pool area at our (?) resort (?) [not pictured - you're welcome] with another couple from Des Moin...

As the Great Quarantine of 2020 was about to get underway, my brilliant wife bought a jigsaw puzzle on a whim during a Target run (back whe...

All the worlds a stage...  In my case (and the case of most recovering academics and definitely most bloggers!) that world is more like a...

… lives his life in a garbage can… Florida, man … I am constantly amused by the fear of IDENTITY THEFT it's a thing, sure - I my...

Seven years ago today, i was hoping to make a bit of a difference. The election and the political climate was a mess. source: www.met...

It started with my damn Apple news feed...  An article about Ready Player One , that i did not need to read.  But, it had the promise of cl...

I'm clearly not the first person to have this thought , but as I sit and watch the early minutes of bad that is the Bears Colts game (...

I am on vacation. I am traveling. I’m taking a trip. Playing tourist. I will be out of the office starting on Monday… I am staying at…...

Re-watching The Desolation of Smaug and the elven torture scene got me thinking about Elven Intellectualism.  The idea of alignment in ...

This afternoon, I invented a new game, "Thoughtless Chess".  You probably own this game already, though you may not have realized...

My Fantasy Football League draft is underway (after coming in 2nd last year in both my Yahoo Baseball and Football leagues, I feel poised...

For most of my life, i've generally tried to avoid being (or being perceived as) a total sci-fi (or SyFy, as the pre-eminent nerd statio...

Over the last week or so, two media have acted as a sort of touch-stone of my little life - one is the coverage and instant memorialization...

**what follows is an extensive definition of the word game , written by me for my 'Theories of Media' class (taught by Professor Tom...

South Milwaukee has a "new" bar... Finally a bar, for south milwaukee. But seriously, Telluride, at 2155 S. Kinnickinnic is a grea...

I’m interested in the gamesmanship (game-iness) of the Oulipo movement and have come to questions about using this idea of games in a positi...

Yeah, a good times... Men's Club was a good time, extending itself into the evening. New folks, old folks (well, no actual old folks). T...

except perhaps that short-lived marriage to PamAnderson . Friday night Brooke and i were as far out west (the wiki-wiki- wildwildWest ) as...