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Halloween, Movies and My New Favorite DnD Tool

Today I’ll talk about our incredible Halloween decorations, a couple movies I saw and a new-to-me DnD tool that I may be a little addicted to. Welp, it happened again. Remember how before, one line above, I said something about “incredible” Halloween decorations? Yeah, that was sarcasm. We didn’t decorate for Halloween. It’s not intentional. It just kind of…happened. I could probably make some…

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'Tis the Season for Scary Shit

  Free Tacos? Hell Yeah! Life’s pretty fucking crazy. And by crazy I mean like a psycho-killer running around with a hammer, smashing people in their grapes. And damn to I have a headache. Seriously though, it has been a minute or so, yeah? Yeah. It’s been a while since I’ve felt like I had anything to say here. Now, I’m still not sure I have a lot to say at the moment, but one thing I’ve learned…

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The Slide Toward Our Cyberpunk Future

The Slide Toward Our Cyberpunk Future

The end is nigh.

Okay, not really the end. In fact, not the end at all. More like the beginning… of a very dark time. A dark, cyberpunk reality. 

A second dark ages, if you will.

This post is not really intended to be political, but I expect it will be just by the sheer nature of what I’m talking about. But what am I talking about? The future.

One trope in science fiction that always nagged at me…

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The Boys: An Education in Violence

The Boys: An Education in Violence

I feel like comic book universes have always been kind of the red-headed step-child of Science Fiction. Well, until The Boys happened. The mainstreaming of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, DC’s movies and all the current comic book TV shows has definitely made these kinds of stories much more common and widely accepted. More accepted, in some ways, than stuff that is often considered more “true”…

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Foods I won't eat, even for science

Foods I won’t eat, even for science

So, one of the things I see very common for blogs is to do a top ten list. So, I thought I’d give that a shot by listing the top ten foods that I won’t even try. Here’s the problem… I couldn’t find that many. The truth is, I’m a fairly adventurous eater, and I think I might try almost anything.

For example, I found this listof things from around the world that are supposed to be super disgusting.…

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Relieve Your Stress with a Lovely Cruise at the End of the World

Relieve Your Stress with a Lovely Cruise at the End of the World

It’s been a shitty day full of stress, it’s time to say “fuck it,” and jump head-long into the apocalypse and live the rest of my life on a raft in the middle of the ocean. Or, maybe I’ll focus on surviving in the zombie apocalypse in rural Arizona. Life may suck there, but at least I don’t have to deal with overbearing bosses, nagging kids and gods-damned kids.

Am I right?

You’re probably…

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SpecArt Spotlight: Flora Silve

SpecArt Spotlight: Flora Silve

Welcome back to our next edition of SpecArt Spotlight, with today’s guest as Flora “Grise” Silve. Flora is a fantastic artist that I worked with before. She was gracious enough to allow me to use her painting Astro Ruins as inspiration for my third #20TweetTales story, Ruins. So, I thought it would be great to get back with her to learn a little about her and her art.

Bounty Hunter by Flora…

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Fickle Science or Can I have my damn steak or not?

Fickle Science or Can I have my damn steak or not?

Sometimes, science is a fickle bitch.

Okay, that’s not really true. Science is just fine. It’s steady and consistent. Science only ever really changes when you find yourself in weird corners of the universe like the event horizon of a black hole, or the quantum vacuum, or literally anywhere in the universe moving at relativistic speeds.

No, the real problem is us. It’s how we try to understand…

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The Mysterious, Marvelous, Mighty Pepperoni Rolls

The Mysterious, Marvelous, Mighty Pepperoni Rolls

Come with me… and you’ll be… in a world of pure imagination. Take a look… and you’ll see… Pepperoni Rolls for your mastication.

Ahem… that was weird.

Recently I wrote about how a part of my life was fundamentally changed when I discovered that my family’s kolache recipe was ACTUALLY for Kolackes. My mistake on this basically boiled down to my family pronouncing it wrong and my grandmother’s…

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SpecArt Spotlight: Niklas Nebelsieck

SpecArt Spotlight: Niklas Nebelsieck

So… Happy New Year! Seems appropriate to me that my first post of 2020 would be a SpecArt Spotlight. Today, I’m bringing you a great artist straight from Berlin, Germany by the name of Niklas Nebelsieck. As a young artist, Niklas is already on his second career, and from the images you’ll see below, he’s excelling at it too. Anyway, onto the art and the questions.

The Timekeeper and the Altar…

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Coming Clean with Kolaches

Coming Clean with Kolaches

My whole life is a lie.

Okay, let me get a hold of myself here. I need to vent this out. 

Holy shit.

Years ago, before my grandmother passed, she bestowed upon me one of the most sacred things in our family, a copy of a recipe. Now this wasn’t just any recipe, it is the absolutely imprecise description and vague instructions for making one of the most amazing holiday treats ever. She gave me her…

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Chapter 1: Get a Job — Chronicles of Tyria

Chapter 1: Get a Job — Chronicles of Tyria

Tide of Shadows is a serial story set in the world of Tyria, from the online MMOs Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2. I participated in and won a short story contest in mid 2019 through the fan site, Chronicles of Tyria. CoT is officially sponsored by the game’s developer, ArenaNet, so I thought this was pretty cool. My prize was to be offered a position as one of their writers. And so was born the…

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SpecArt Spotlight: Beste Erel

SpecArt Spotlight: Beste Erel

I’m a little late in posting this. You can thank our American turkey-eating holiday, Thanksgiving. Anyway, here we go, into another SpecArt Spotlight! This time we’re talking with Beste Erel, a freelance illustrator in the grey-blue city of Istanbul, Turkey. She’s been creating art since she was a child. Her art ranges from surreal to fantasy and even a bit of light horror.

Concept Study, by…

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The Slippery Slope of Poopy Science

The Slippery Slope of Poopy Science

Science is cool. Few things in this world make me happier than reading about some new discover and saying “Fuck yeah, science!” So when I found this article at ScienceDaily.com on a research paper saying that scientists have found a way to keep your poop from sticking to the inside of your toilet, I had to say, “Fuck yeah! Science, bitches!”

Yeah, sure… This sounds silly. Kind of. I mean, who…

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The Mandalorian...or The Not-Bobba-Fet Show

The Mandalorian…or The Not-Bobba-Fet Show

Evil Fire Breathing Dragon Lady and I have been in a bit of a disagreement lately concerning the launch of Disney+, and by extension, the Mandalorian. Given that the new streaming service is practically bursting at the seams with nerd and geek content, I’ve been adamant that I want to get it. She, on the other hand… Well, I believe her exact words were, “I’m not paying for another damned…

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Trick or Treat, Bitches.

Trick or Treat, Bitches.

Some of this post was originally intended for last Friday’s F#@k-It Friday. However… Trick or treat! I guess it’s a trick, because my ass was too busy (read lazy) to actually get that done. So I guess it really was a fuck-it Friday. 

Last week was Halloween. Yep, that one day of the year we worship sugar like it’s gold. Okay, not the ONE day of the year. Westerners worship sugar on other days…

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Tacos... and My Alien Son

Tacos… and My Alien Son

I’m starting to think that my son might be adopted. 

Sure, it’s a little late to come to this conclusion since he’s an adult, but… He can’t possibly be mine. Or Evil Fire Breathing Dragon Lady’s, for that matter. He might look like us, even act like us in many ways… but there’s almost no way he can be our biological child. 

I mean… he doesn’t really care about tacos.

Yes. You read that right. My…