It's kind of strange how fast I'm leveling on the Anniversary servers given that I'm not actively trying to slow it down. I'...

I was at our local indie bookstore last night, and I came across this magazine: Bhagpuss, this one's for you. That --and the other magaz...

I suspect that I'm the sort of player that Blizzard likes to pretend doesn't exist. Or, if we do exist, my sort of player is in such...

Who is Greg Brown, you might ask? (I know I did.) He was the founding guitarist of the band Cake, who happened to have penned this little di...

The CurseForge graphics for World of Warcraft were updated more quickly this time around than in the War Within expansion: Screencap from Cu...

Once in a while I'll hear a song I haven't heard in decades, and I'll suddenly realize that I'd missed a critical part of wh...

Back in my tween years in the early 80s, my listening habits straddled the New Wave Pop sound with Rock. If the music you listen to when you...

Every so often, the YouTube algorithm pops up something that I really love. This time, it's the kinda-sorta Beatles song, Now and Then. ...

I first heard The Moody Blues on the radio in 1981, as their Long Distance Voyager album came out in early Summer. It got heavy airplay on ...

The L50 boundary has been crossed. Of course the Songshine sisters would be first to L50. Because competition between siblings. This is as o...

Well, I pulled off another "Not Quite a Blaugust" Blaugust. No signups, no fanfare, no topics. Just writing for 31 days. Things tu...

One of the goals I had when I went to college was to experience some things that I knew I wasn't going to have a chance to do again. Tha...

1982 was a bit of a seminal year for me. The 1981-1982 school year was my 7th Grade. I was knee deep in puberty, I'd been playing D&...

This week, a significant portion of my youth passed away. First, the news broke a couple of days ago that Ozzy Osbourne passed away, a few w...

Well, it does for me. Oh, not in real life. IRL, I'm a softie who enjoys romance. Not necessarily Romance novels, mind you,* but I meant...