If you were to combine a Feng Shui game and an action movie revolving around dragons, especially if you were targeting it to an audience with a high tolerance for, and ability to forgive, plot holes larger than many New England states, then you really could not do better than Dragon Wars. Old Master Fu! [...]
That’d be “happy new year” to our Gentile guests. This is an excellent time to send a Rabbi-Gram.
Amanda writes about the “ZOMG John Edwards is a trial lawyar!!!11!“ smearing, and unfortunately, as is so often the case, people are reduced to putting “tort reform” into quotes to make clear that the National Association of Manufacturers/Chamber of Commerce/DRI crowd isn’t about actually reforming the tort system. Yet it’s hard to find a good [...]
When Musicians Play Interactive Fiction, at Grand Text Auto. h/t: Infocult
Because we expect a little paranoia and overreaction from brand-new parents with brand-new babies. From a parent with two school-age children, you expect a little better than this:
I’ve been meaning to read this one forever, as it’s one of the SF Classics. It’s recently been reprinted in paperback. It’s no Iron Dream, but I enjoyed it. It’s one of the novels of the “New Wave” of SF, and it shows; at times the prose is very stream-of-consciousness, hip wordplay, irritating. Jack Barron [...]