“Wanting to be a cooler, beer-drinking, girl-bedding kind of guy, I stopped playing D&D when I went to college. There was shame in them thar imaginary hills. So I shelved that yearning for fantasy heroics, which looked so weak and antisocial. I told myself, You don’t need D&D […]
Johnny Knoxville made a documentary in Detroit. And he didn’t shoot a bunch of ruin porn, either.
Inglip has been summoned and his wishes divined.
Joe Steckart has an interesting response to Patton Oswalt’s “Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die“: “Reading Watchmen does not make you cool. Being able to talk about it intelligently does. The counterculture, the ineffable ‘cool,’ will always be manifesting itself in something. Right now it’s manifesting at least […]
Patton Oswalt wants to save geekery by destroying it: “In order to save pop culture future, we’ve got to make the present pop culture suck, at least for a little while.” It reminds me of Jim Munroe’s question at WisCon 2008: “Does it have to get boring before […]
Chris Sims gathers the 11 best D&D questions from Dragon Magazine’s “Sage Advice” column. (And it’s worth checking out the comments here after the arrival of a different Chris Sims.
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The Cultural Gutter 