Speculative Fiction

I love me some Speculative Fiction.  Since I last posted about it, I’ve added at least 5 books from the NPR list to my have-read or am-reading lists.   I expect to finish Slaughterhouse-Five (#19) on my commute home tonight, and then I will finish a re-read of Hitchhiker’s Guide (#2) and finish up Watchmen (#15).  That’ll

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Things for which I am thankful

Being Thanksgiving, I thought I would compile a list of things for which I am thankful. Here goes (This list is by no means ranked. Watch out for stream of consciousness! ) – Genre Fiction – LOST – Watching Heroes with friends – The Internet – Adorable nieces and nephews – The Fall in Michigan [...]

Top 5 Books of 2008

Ok, It’s the 6th and I’m still doing Best of 2008 lists. This one should be my last. This is the one that was the hardest for me, because I couldn’t make up my mind, so every time I decided to do one of my blogs this one got pushed back. Originally, it was a [...]

Top 10 Moments in 2008

I’m going to try to do this in as few words as possible

10- Voting for Mitt Romney

The fact that I had a choice to vote for a Mormon for President. Awesome!

9- Convincing my nephew in less than half an hour that we could be friends

That was quicker than my dad [...]

Top 5 Games of 2008

You know by now that I am a big fan of the games. Particularly the creative games from such companies as Days of Wonder and Mayfair. Not so much among the Hasbros and Milton-Bradleys of the world. In any case, as you’ll see I’m not just limiting the word game to games that I played [...]