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The More Things Change…

Yes, it’s a cliché, but “the more things change, the more they stay the same” is really a good summary of my experience at Grand Masquerade. On the one hand, it was all-new. The event is the first of its kind ever, bringing together five different fan organizations under one roof with a number of [...]

The Grandest and Masqueradiest Show

The Grand Masquerade is next week. This is, in many ways, a unique experience. It’s absolutely the first time we’ve gotten a lot of different World of Darkness communities together. Live-action, tabletop, card games… all of them are together under one roof in a gorgeous hotel in New Orleans. It’s a great chance to get [...]

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Cyberpunk Literature

Like most blogs, my site attracts its fair share of spam. I recently shut down one avenue, but once in a while I still get the odd bit of misdirected, self-promotional crap. Yesterday, I got another one through my “Contact Eddy” page, asking me to post a link to bestcollegesonline.net. I was about to delete [...]

Shutting off membership option

I have an option on my blog to be a member. However, I’m now getting a dozen accounts a day of spam bots trying to become members of this site, so I’m shutting that down until I find out what functionality that provides and provide a better option for it. This won’t affect RSS and [...]

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Boring, Self-Indulgent Update

These days I do most of my boring life updates on Twitter and Facebook. With the rise of microblogging, self-indulgent updates about my life and interests aren’t as necessary as they once were. But once in a while, it’s nice to take a longer moment and think about what’s going on, especially when you’re deep [...]

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The Cover Band Game

Before I dive into this, complete and total credit goes to the amazingly awesome Paul and Storm. This strange thing comes out of a bit they do during live concerts. Said bit is, whenever one of them makes an off-hand comment that includes an interesting turn of phrase, the other says “[Clever Turn of Phrase] [...]