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December 31, 2022

2022

As I reflect upon the year that comes to a close in the next 10 hours, I find that only one thing really stands out to me.

2022 is the year when I finally finished the manuscript for FAR WEST, after struggling with it through what turned out to be the hardest decade of my life. Finishing it, and turning it over to my partner Eric Trautmann for layout, is not only the biggest accomplishment I had in 2022, but the biggest milestone in my life for YEARS.

What remains, in 2023, is to finally distribute the game, not only to my amazingly patient Kickstarter backers, but to the general gaming public as well.

Beyond that? 2023 awaits. We’ll see what else it brings.

September 2, 2022September 2, 2022

Friday Music

Almost forgot to post this! Laura and I are prepping to spend the next two months working at the KC RenFest, so I got distracted.

I’m not going to write much about this playlist, suffice it to say that it features selections from my personal FAR WEST playlist, and it was on my mind this week for… reasons.

More on that soon.

November 11, 2020November 11, 2020

A Republic, If You Can Keep It.

A cardboard protest sign, which reads "Stop asking me to forgive fascism." — Image courtesy of Adobe Stock.

It should have been a landslide.

It shouldn’t have been a nail-biter.

It was, one hoped, the easiest question ever posed to the American people. After four years of a steady march towards fascism, four years of daily outrages — violations of the Constitution, literal textbook-definition Crimes Against Humanity, human rights violations, criminality and corruption — the American people should have buried Donald Trump and his enablers in the Republican Party in a massive tidal wave of repudiation. Something along the lines of the rejection of Barry Goldwater in 1964. We would stand up, together, and shout as loudly as we could, WE ARE BETTER THAN THIS.

But we’re not.