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Narrative Director for video games and writer of fiction and TTRPGs. Author of A MEETING IN THE DEVIL'S HOUSE, among others. Former Ubisoft & Crytek narrative specialist, former White Wolf game developer. Lover of scotch, books, Sasquatches and cats.
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Why yes, there was in fact a random Stephen King book just laying there in my driveway when I got back from a doctor’s appointment this afternoon. Why do you ask?

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

...the moment when you catch yourself trying to explain all the 1980s Philly references in the video for "Punk Rock Girl" by the Dead Milkmen to your girlfriend who has never heard the song before and she says "I like it. It's catchy."

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Just saw a Jagermeister commercial with the tag line “Serve it cold or don’t serve it at all.” ….I know which one I’m picking….

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What is common knowledge in your field, but that shocks outsiders? That this is an actual job, with necessary and unique demands, skills, professional language, and expertise. Writing games is writing /games/, not just "writing that happens to be for a game".

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Just submitted my complaint to Hilton over being double-billed for the StokerCon hotel. I feel like one of the cool kids.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I absolutely do not believe my house is haunted. But. The past two days I have been home, I have had two pieces of Wraith: The Oblivion original art that had been hanging quietly in place for years suddenly leap off the wall and crash to the ground. Come on, dead people. You gotta let this go.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

There are certain mistakes one finds one’s self inevitably repeating in one’s life, terrible decisions that seem impossible to avoid and that haunt us again and again. In other news, I just stopped for dinner at Maryland House.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

….why are there now vending machines selling giant slices of expensive cake at rest stops on the Jersey Turnpike? Seriously, who pulls in and thinks “I need gas, I need to pee, and a slab of Black Forest cake the size of my head would really hit the spot?”

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

I thought I would be able to escape StokerCon without buying any books. I thought wrong.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

White Wolf Game Studios old school heavily bearded developers represent!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I would like to meet the person who came up with idea of hotels putting bogus charges and “holds” on your card when you check in so they can kite the funds until they eventually decide to return it to you, and thrash that person soundly.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Connecticut, the state full of highway drivers willing to slam on the brakes at a moment notice because someone 20 miles ahead on route 15 might’ve seen a squirrel

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Why yes, I am eating lunch in a diner in upstate New York and as such ordered a pastrami sandwich bigger than my head. Why do you ask?

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Saw Elf for the first time last night. Was not expecting a shout-out to the Patterson-Gimlin film. Squatch is everywhere.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Going to a local independent league ballgame tonight with my girlfriend. It’s her second game ever. I could not be more besotted if I tried.

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Arrived safely in Philadelphia after a lovely day of seeing friends along the way. Now to spend the evening wallowing in our fancy hotel room on Rittenhouse Square.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Started playing Blue Prince last night with Ellen. Game dev brain went "Oh, THAT's what they're doing. Excellent." Gamer brain went "Squee!"

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

….waking up to a rejection from a magazine you have no recollection and no record of having ever submitted to….

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

The mythical "low information voter" does not exist. What we actually have is the "I don't want to know" voter and the "Don't confuse me with facts" voter. After 4 years of the first Trump administration, no one could reasonably claim to be "low information" about him.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Elon Musk is what a 12 year old thinks a late period Heinlein protagonist is. Peter Thiel is what an Ayn Rand protagonist wants to be when he grows up.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Just your typical day where you make the acquaintance of a pair of Sasquatch-loving bassoonists in town for a bassoon convention and who have recorded a piece of classical music featuring 4 bassoons that is about Sasquatches.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

I know we’re all having fun calling Trump “TACO” right now, but if we’re going to go with food-based nicknames for him, I’ve got to look at his relationship with Putin and call him “The Sub”.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

David Mamet is the Yngwie Malmsteen of American letters. Impressive technique, incredible virtuosity, comes at you fast, but the actually impactful moments are few, and there’s nothing you can hum afterwards.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

On the road to the mountains to read with some mighty fine folks in Asheville tomorrow night!

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

My latest post on game writing and narrative, on finding the stuff that inspires you:

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments