One Geek to Another – How to Split up the Party…
One Geek to Another, an ongoing advice guide to the ethics and etiquette of the geek life, addresses a reader’s question about how to “invite” one member of their gaming group to leave.
This Empire Earth: Mmmm… Mancakes!
The Bigozians were the first sentient alien race to encounter humanity, even though the Martians were literally next door (oh yes, there are Martians… more on them later). And of course, the humans did not realize what they saw – or thought they saw – was from outerspace. Bigozians are giant, burly humanoid creatures who […]
One Geek To Another – Introduction and Introductions
Welcome to One Geek to Another, an ongoing advice guide to the ethics and etiquette of the geek life. Sometimes, it will be me talking about whatever etiquette and ethics topic strikes my fancy or seems particularly appropriate at the time. Other times, I’ll field questions from readers, offering my best suggestions on how to deal with questions about geek social interaction, professional situations or relationship challenges.
This Empire Earth: Ambriidans
This is the first of a series of articles concerning my homebrew SF setting originally posted at my personal site, EvilBastard.net, which I’m importing over here to IoM. At the dawn of the 28th Century, the powerful hand of Imperial Earth stretches far across the stars touching the lives of countless humans and aliens alike. […]
Your Morning Head: My homebrew SciFi setting debut
I’ve been designing my homebrew SciFi setting for awhile now. I’ve worked on it solo and opened it up to sandbox sessions with my players. It’s turning into quite a robust universe. The Empire is a big play ground complete with nobility and political intrigue, interstellar warships waging galactic scale battles, and merchants just trying […]
Commercials that amuse me
The last few nights of television watching – or more precisely TiVo viewing – I’ve seen some commercials that have cracked me the hell up. Forthwith, I share! I about laughed myself into a bladder incident on this one… This one is for Paul… And I am so taking off for Chinchilli day!
A Fifth Indiana Jones Film?
FoxNews reports that Harrison Ford is ready for Indiana Jones 5. “The story for the new Indiana Jones is in the process of taking form,” Ford told France’s Le Figaro magazine. “Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and myself are agreed on what the fifth adventure will concern, and George is actively at work. If the script […]
Want a peek inside Dracula's Castle? (Halloween Horror Nights 19)
Check out this awesome photo I received in e-mail today, courtesy of Universal Studios Orlando! LEGACY OF BLOOD – Universal Orlando is devoting its entire Halloween Horror Nights event to bringing popular horror films to life, including Universal Pictures’ famed “Dracula.” The legendary dark prince will be featured in a haunted house, and will be […]
The Pull List 09-14-09
Replacing our old feature The Crap You Should Buy This Week, The Pull-List is our opportunity to tell you guys about the crap we’re going to buy this week (and probably speak about during our podcast), so you can get a peek into what comics our twisted minds enjoy. You can access the week’s new […]
The Justice Files: Murder by Death Live
I know that its been awhile since I wrote anything but I have a good reason for that; I haven’t been listening to anything I haven’t recently written about. I figured I could write articles about other music I like but when I’m not in the moment with it I find it really had to […]