Tony Mast is a man who seems to be everywhere at once. He hosts two podcasts (Back Seat Producers and Tony’s Losing It). He’s contributed to and edited three short story anthologies, the most recent of which – Storm Cloud – came out just a few weeks ago. He is currently accepting submissions for a […]
I get asked about the music we use for The Bear Swarm! Podcast from time to time. Why I picked what it or where I found it in the first place. I figured now that I have this fancy music column, I could write an article about it. Now I can just direct all further […]
Yours truly is guesting on tonight’s episode of Back Seat Producers streaming live across the interwebz. We’ll be talking about the new Star Trek movie on the Ustream, which means you can participate with us in the chatroom. Set your phasers to awesome and come on over to the Back Seat Producers channel at 9 […]
Of the many laudable aspects of the Memorial Day Weekend – time with friends and family, BBQ, swimming in the pool, beer – my absolute favorite is the Half Price Books 20% off sale. During the sale, they provide an additional 20% off their everyday half-off prices on every item in the store. It’s a […]
Over the weekend, Paul announced the winner of the 100 Free Comics That Don’t Suck Give-A-Way. It was Bear Swarm’s Rob that won the day. He gave a nice shout out to IoM over on his podcast while at the same time speaking rather harshly of me. I suggested to Paul that perhaps, just […]
I listen to a lot of podcasts. If you’re a frequent reader of this blog, you know that I am particularly interested in role playing game podcasts such as The Podge Cast and The Game’s the Thing. Both are extraordinary, delivering the awesome on a regular basis. I have a standing date on Monday morning’s […]
Last week, I wrote about the upcoming intervention the hosts of Fear the Boot have planned for Dan Repperger. Dan, you see, just can’t wrap his head around any number of character concepts or campaign settings. His fellow hosts are planning on helping him out of his funk by getting him excited about a genre […]
Of late, I have listened to Fear the Boot with an awfully critical ear – despite my abiding affection for the hosts. I’ve settled into a habit of enumerating all the many ways Chad and Dan are wrong, suffering from narrow perspectives and absence of vision as they are. In fact, I wrote about some […]
After listening to Fear the Boot’s recent episode on playing animal characters, I wrote yesterday about playing something approaching a true animal (i.e. no thumbs, no pants). Today, I want to pick up on the other part of FtB’s episode. Role playing more human-like animal characters. Y’know, furries. Anthropomorphs The hosts of Fear the Boot […]
The great thing about Fear the Boot is that I often disagree with them, which gives me stuff to write about here. And when I say ‘often,’ I mean ‘all-the-time.’ So no shortage of content here at IoM. In last week’s curiously well-timed episode that dropped Friday instead of its usual Wednesday and that […]