by Kevin Pettway on February 19, 2010
The Friday Blog I promised that I was going to keep everyone updated about the state of my and Lena’s efforts to become healthy. I haven’t written recently… because I kinda forgot to… but I thought I’d do so here, and also chat about some of the unintended consequences of our reformed lifestyle. We began [...]
by Kevin Pettway on February 12, 2010
The Friday Blog Are You Gonna Get an iPad? To go ahead and destroy the tension, I probably am. Lena and I were already shopping for an e-reader, and having the rest of the capabilities of the iPod as well, with an enlarged viewing screen and a nearly full-sized keyboard pretty much sealed the deal. [...]
by Kevin Pettway on February 10, 2010
The Wednesday Video It is amazing to me how far this came before the whole project was scrubbed. It kinda makes me sad. I was really excited about playing D&D with my friends in Texas. It’s just sort of sadly interesting now. We had grand plans and we were overly ambitious in what could actually [...]
by Kevin Pettway on February 8, 2010
Don’t forget to write your questions for Dear DM in the comments below, and come back to see the answers next week! Dear DM @Layne: Dear DM, how much cough syrup did you take before answering these [questions]? Dear Layne, Dear DM does not abuse liquid cough suppressants which do not contain codeine. I hope this answers your [...]
by Kevin Pettway on February 5, 2010
The Friday Blog I just heard some news that was very exciting for me. I was going to write a blog about a new craze sweeping the evangelical Christian world, (Turn your sound down before following this link) but this is way better. When I was a teenager first learning RPGs our group played a [...]
by Kevin Pettway on January 22, 2010
I found this fun spot in the Bible (Deuteronomy 22) where a lot of rules are laid down about what to do in the various cases of people being caught in marital infidelities. If the people are neither married nor betrothed and the chick is a virgin, someone usually gets paid off and the couple [...]
by Kevin Pettway on January 18, 2010
Dear Everyone, I got news yesterday that my uncle in Georgia died in bed, early in the morning. He went peacefully and quietly, for which everyone was grateful. He was one of the patriarchs of our family and was a generous and very funny man. I cared for him greatly. My sister and I are going [...]
by Kevin Pettway on January 15, 2010
The earthquake disaster that hit (and is still hitting) Haiti is obviously a horrible, horrible thing to happen. Port-au-Prince is wrecked, the government is in shambles, the dead are stacked in the streets, and the hospitals are hopelessly overwhelmed. (What remains of them.) It would be unthinkable to kick these people now, when circumstance has [...]
by Kevin Pettway on November 25, 2009
It’s Wednesday, and that means it’s video time! This week’s video is sort of a G.I. Joe vs Transformers, with a bit of Japanese feeling creative splash to it. Strap in, it gets stranger as it goes. (Sorry for nothing here having anything to do with Thanksgiving… oh well!)
by Kevin Pettway on November 23, 2009
It’s the second installment of Dear DM! Enjoy, and don’t forget to post more questions below! Dear DM @Draad: Dear DM,
One of the players in my group recently told me that her definition of a RPG session is like “being in a movie”. The problem is that it fits perfectly the campaign we are in as, [...]
by Kevin Pettway on October 30, 2009
Okay, I am pulling a blog card today. My grandmother died yesterday morning of Alzheimer’s complications… and I feel a little out of step with the rest of the world who didn’t just lose their grandmothers yesterday morning. She died as she lived, bitching and laughing, until she passed out at last, and the fluid [...]
by Kevin Pettway on October 28, 2009
Pixar is the movie studio responsible for bringing us such delightful fare as Toy Story, Toy Story 2, and soon to be Toy Story 3. They created A Bug’s Life, Monsters Inc., The Incredibles, Ratatouille, and WALL-E. Unfortunately they were also responsible for Cars and Up. So what’s the deal? How can you make so many [...]
by Kevin Pettway on October 16, 2009
Contest! Lena had a fun idea the other day while we were discussing a recent strip. It was number 567 where the heroes first enter the bar, The Ugly Thing Nailed to the Wall. Several readers had offered guesses as to what the ugly thing in question actually was, and after I told Lena the [...]
by Kevin Pettway on October 9, 2009
Plose and the Dragon DM: As you quietly make your way down the sloping tunnel, you perceive a reddish glow coming from up ahead, along with a rhythmic rumbling. Peeking around the corner you see that the glow comes from within the breast of the largest red dragon you have ever seen, the rumbling being [...]
by Kevin Pettway on September 30, 2009
As my Romanian friend next door likes to say, this video “has my heart.” Now I know that many of you are cute-o-phobes, and I’d suggest that you just skip this one. It is endearing and uplifting, and you likely won’t want to watch. I, on the other hand, got almost ten seconds into it [...]
by Kevin Pettway on September 28, 2009
Lena and I have been talking a lot about the afterlife recently. Is there one, what is it like, will you get to see your friends, do you have to see your family, does the cable ever go out, that sort of thing. If classical Christianity is to be believed then hell is forever burning [...]
by Kevin Pettway on September 25, 2009
I saved this for the Friday blog because it’s awesome, and I wanted you to have all weekend with it. This is an article I cadged out of my friend and fellow gamer Lloyd Brown, who among other things is responsible for much of the World of Kalamar campaign setting by Kenzer and Co. Enjoy! [...]
by Kevin Pettway on September 23, 2009
Every once in a while a video comes along that is just wrong enough to need to be shared with everyone in the whole world. I suggest watching it with a beer, for those of you who work at home. It starts amusingly enough, but then for me quickly became so ridiculous that I couldn’t [...]
by Kevin Pettway on August 14, 2009
Friday Geek-Out Because it’s come up recently and I was curious, I thought I’d ask what everyone’s opinions were concerning social lubricants while gaming. When I was young, all gaming pretty much went hand in hand with whiskey and pot, which led to some very memorable moments, and other moments which probably should have been [...]
by Kevin Pettway on August 12, 2009
When I was four or so my mom used to have me kept after (pre)school with a crotchety old woman everyone called “Nanny.” Nanny kept kids for extra cash, which was pretty normal back then. She never wore anything but an old house dress (think mu-mu, but way older) and we kids had to stay [...]