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 […]
Bounty hunter: You’re wanted, Wales. Josey Wales:Reckon I’m right popular. You a bounty hunter? Bounty hunter:A man’s got to do something for a living these days. Josey Wales: Dyin’ ain’t much of a living, boy. – The Outlaw Josey Wales Bang! The Dice Game, published by dV […]
“The waiting is the hardest part Every day you see one more card You take it on faith, you take it to the heart The waiting is the hardest part” – Tom Petty, The Waiting Truer words could not have been spoken, especially when playing a game […]
“All the fun of football without the inflated egos and deflated balls” 1st & Goal is a card and dice based football game by R&R Games for two to four players that does a fantastic job of giving you experience of coaching a team without getting bogged down […]
Click here to listen to me talk about the game on The Dukes of Dice Podcast: King of Charity. I was fortunate enough to get in a charity auction bidding war with a gentlemen by the name of J. Thomas Lowell, for a chance to be a Duke […]
Someday My Prince Will Come by Miles Davis is one of the best morning records ever. From the opening title track, Davis’s interpretation of the composition from Snow White waltzes you melodiously into the morning. It reminds you that you are going to have a wonderful day, whether […]
“Start your engines!” Formula D by Asmodee is a racing game that lets the players take the role of either Formula 1 or street racers, risking everything for a chance to be first across the finish line. The game came out in 2008 as a reprint of Formula […]