Category Archives: Board Games

Road Runner, Road Runner, Runs Down the Road All Day

Posted on May 30, 2026 by Nathan

The Barbarian of World’s End, by Lin Carter – For some reason, this was the only book in this series I couldn’t find on Kindle, so I bought a used physical copy. As the title suggests, it focuses on Ganelon … Continue reading →

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There’s No Gambit I Can’t See Through

Posted on April 14, 2026 by Nathan

SPOILER WARNING! Faces of Death – We saw this at the theater last Wednesday, and the main thing I have to say about it is that it’s very meta-referential. I guess that kind of thing has been popular for a … Continue reading →

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That’s Aliahan, Folks!

Posted on February 13, 2025 by Nathan

I decided to set Octopath Traveler aside for a while, as it was getting frustrating. I’ll probably get back to it at some point, but there are other games I said that about twenty years ago, so who knows? And now … Continue reading →

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Dinosaurs and Dragons

Posted on January 31, 2025 by Nathan

Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time, by James Gurney – I seem to remember reading something about this book around when it first came out in the early nineties, in National Geographic or something. I was interested, but I didn’t … Continue reading →

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The Bad Pipsisewah Shivered and Shook

Posted on November 26, 2024 by Nathan

I wrote a bit before about the Uncle Wiggily board game, which I remember playing a lot as a kid, as well as the first two collections of Howard Roger Garis’ original Uncle Wiggily stories. Recently, I noticed that there … Continue reading →

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The Power of Many

Posted on November 15, 2024 by Nathan

SPOILERS for a TV show and a fairly new movie. Star Wars: The Acolyte – Set about a century before the events of the prequel trilogy, this eight-episode series stars Amandla Stenberg as twin sisters who were artificially created by … Continue reading →

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Possession Has Its Privileges

Posted on September 15, 2024 by Nathan

The Wonderful Land of Oz – This weird low-budget 1969 adaptation of The Marvelous Land of Oz is something I’d never seen, but Beth found online that there’s a Rifftrax version of it, so we watched it. I guess that … Continue reading →

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This Could Be Oz, But You Playin’

Posted on July 25, 2024 by Nathan

I dragged Beth along to OzCon International, which was once again held at Kellogg West in Pomona, California. From what I understand, they raised their prices, so the convention was limited to two days, and we didn’t have access to … Continue reading →

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Unfinished Business

Posted on June 9, 2024 by Nathan

WARNING! SPOILERS! The Seventh Seal – I believe this is the first Ingmar Bergman movie I’ve seen, and I largely watched it because I know it’s a film that gets referenced a lot. I have to say it looks very … Continue reading →

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