I’ve found that some of the most satisfying music for me this year has been performances on KEXP. These are some of my favorites of 2020:
Mr. Wford
honky tonkin…
another oldie from the vaults, written when I seem to have been feeling a bit bitter about a (then still living) family member… Rough and rowdy ways? I can hear the stubies tumbling around the flat wooden top, rolling to the floor as I suspect that you would also, once enough have wobbled across this…Read more
Dregs, Bit 01
Well, as may be obvious, I have never managed to keep this thing populated. So I figured, well, I did a lot of failed writing attempts in my 20’s (Note that was 30 years ago… see blah blah blah) maybe I should just plop some of them up here… First bit… Something that I titled…Read more
olden school…
So in the early-mid 80’s I did a lot of gaming. Mainly AD&D. For a couple of those years, it was just about all that I did. In the last seven years, I’ve dabbled in it again with some folks in town. Not AD&D 1ed, but other D&D and other non-D&D games. But, for some…Read more
slow grind into adulthood…
Once I became adultish, meaning early 20’s, I looked back a bit at some things that I seem to have missed and looked at other steps that others had made and came up with a grand generalization about myself regarding, oh I don’t know how to put it. Something. Anyway, it was that I always…Read more
rapinish…
Back in the day, as the proverb goes… I fell into rap music fandom from a double-edged sword… In 1986 (or 85?) I saw the Beasties video for She’s On It on USA Network and was totally hooked. In pursuit of them I started going to 2nd Ave records, which was the only store I…Read more
Bandcamp goin’ crazy!
To help generate money for artists who may be under duress from the Pandemic, Bandcamp is waiving their fees today… On their front page they show whats being bought… Normally when watching, you can see a couple of items being sold every second or so… Today, though, it’s nuts!!
world gone awry…
So my ill-fated AD&D campaign continues in its bountiful nowhereness. I’m now up to 100 or so pages of campaign background materials. But I’ve put so much time into it that it no longer feels like gaming prep, it’s now more like some big disjointed world history… One thing that I am always contending with…Read more
once more… with feeling.
Okay, now that I’ve had a couple of weeks to digest it, I’ve found myself on a high-horse about this Rise of Skywalker movie. So here are some brief points I’d like to sputter out: 1. Stupid name. Even if Rey was a skywalker, which it turns out that she isn’t, this makes no sense…Read more
no, it’s a module…
Having a conversation with a co-worker yesterday, of a similar vintage as myself, I realized that we both shared the same approximate Dungeons and Dragons time, about 1981-1987. he mentioned that he had usually DM’d and they that had bought, and gone through, most of the modules. Unfortunately, as most of my time gaming in…Read more