Shattered Restless Rooms: Remembering Silent Hill

In my restless dreams, I see that town. Silent Hill. We used to go there often. Well, I’m waiting for you there now. The Silent Hill series was a crazy important influence in my life. Actually, that’s an understatement. I first played Silent Hill 2 not long after my dad took me to a Robert McKee seminar […]

Intrinsic Value

My word, is it 2015 again already? These universe cycles go so quickly these days. Next thing you know, it will be the Big Squish all over again. 2014 was a good year for me. That’s how I plan on thinking about it, at any rate. While some aspects of my personal and professional life […]

Season’s Bleatings

It’s true that I haven’t posted on this website of late. I’ve been too busy transforming my life into a nightmarish montage of self-imposed deadlines and unquenchable exhaustion. But now! Now I have something for you, darling readers. Halloween is my favorite time of year, and I have been exceptionally busy (even for me) […]

On Games and Gaminess

I haven’t done an actual career-related update for a while, and with several recent and upcoming articles on Entropy that I’m immoderately proud of, I figured, oh, what the hell. For writing! Entropy is “A new website featuring literary and related non-literary content.” It’s been going strong for, oh, three weeks now, and I couldn’t be […]

A Very Busy Season

Elves aren’t the only small, humanoid creatures that are all a-bustle this holiday season. Yours truly (more hobbit than elf, to be honest) has also been a busy bee-ver (a strange concept for a hybrid animal, but I don’t really give a dam). Let’s pick out some of this month’s highlights: My retrospective review of […]

Giants Prehistoric and Postmodern, Killer Gramophones, and cetera

Y How do you know you’ve hit the big leagues? I don’t know, maybe when there are fucking giants involved? At least that’s how I feel when, all breathless and with a gut full of lepidopterans, I find one of my articles published on the awesomely cool HTMLGIANT. It’s a bit of a review, a bit […]

You’re Not My Mom

You’re not the boss of me. I can review a game I’ve already reviewed if I wanna. See? Boss Monster Card Game Review So naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

In Which I Review A Very Peculiar Card Game

Rant Gaming has just published my review of Joe Fourhman’s unofficial, unauthorized card game tribute to Tecmo’s Fatal Frame series, and I couldn’t be more pleased with how it turned out. You have to check this one out. Read the review here.

The Oregon Trail is…Life, Death, Love, and Dysentery

I’ve got a new article up on http://www.rantgaming.com. It’s a reflection on what Gregory Sherl’s book of poems, The Oregon Trail is The Oregon Trail, means for the future of literature. Also, there are a lot of free poems in the article that I wrote myself. I mean, I wrote the poems myself. And the […]

Bacon: It’s Not Just for Soap Anymore

We all know that Cleanliness is next to Godliness, but what’s Godliness next to? If you answered “bacon,” well, you might want to have a word with the Library of Horror Press, publishers of Baconology: Sizzling Strips of Horror, an anthology of…ah heck, do I really need to spell it out? The point being that […]