The home stretch. The middle four weeks gave us a Jazz/Funk quartets that likes to mix up covers, a child prodigy, musical LSD from one of the greats, and a powerful, solo piano performance. We are going to close with some legends, an artist who demands utter silence […]
For the first four weeks we visited modern jazz from a cornerstone of jazz music, one of the many seminal records of a jazz legend, the origins of thrash guitar, tucked inside a box of Latin inspired jazz fusion, and I avoided any further legal action from Mike […]
Thanks for sticking with me on this. If you are just checking out what the title means, I would direct you back to my first post, Jazz and the Sound of My Summer. Alright, now that everyone is caught up, I am going to talk a bit about […]
I have a love/hate relationship with social media. Part of me is fascinated by how connected we are as a global society. There are friends I have reconnected with and new friends that I likely would never had the opportunity to know (some of whom are indirectly responsible […]
This was the year I was going to do it. I was going to Gen Con. If you have kept up with this blog, you know I am not much of a convention guy, but the last couple years at Geekway to the West have accelerated a change […]
It started innocently enough. A friend of mine, Aaron, said something like, “You like going down rabbit holes, you should check out this podcast I found called Hardcore History. The host is Dan Carlin and he really likes digging deep into a subject.” He went on to explain […]
Catch up with the story by reading the first part here (well, just to the right of here): The Spirit of Geekway to the West (Pt. 1) Day 3, Saturday Games Played: rat-a-tat Cat (was there any doubt this would get more play?), Fluch Der Mumie, Monopoly Junior, […]
Life sometimes feels remarkably like a worker placement game. Undoubtedly I am not the first to say it, nor do I think I will be the last, but it is true none the less. In a good worker placement, one of the challenges is that there is always […]
There are many reasons I have a fondness (read, addiction) for buying new games. It’s not just the excitement of sharing with family and friends, but the whole visceral experience that goes along with the purchase. For me, the value of the game doesn’t begin and end with […]
I’ve been talking at length on my love for all things Valiant, going over the history of the company as well as my history in reading their comics. As promised, I will now start detailing over the next several posts the amazing characters and stories that make up this […]
