On Thursday temperatures reached 72 degrees. On Friday they peaked at 76. This is my kind of week. After attempting to rewrite my sermon Friday morning 1 I switched to my 500mm lens and decided to take a stroll down by the river. I wore sandals, without socks, in February. It was high tide, so…
Author: Wes Allen
Wes got back in to Role Playing Games during the pandemic and it’s blown up into a wonderful mid-life crisis. He runs the DM Tales YouTube channel and website, GMs two campaigns, and plays online in another with some old friends. His “day job” is a Baptist Pastor in Philadelphia’s Jersey suburbs.
February Spring
Yesterday was February 23. That means we’re still in the midst of Winter. By this date a few years back I was ready to run away to the tropics because I was sick of ice and snow. In 2017, on the other hand, the temperature was 72 degrees. I know this isn’t necessarily a good…
Reminder
We all get annoyed with people. It’s inescapable. Rather than allowing that annoyance to stoke within us a sense of superiority and arrogance, however, we should remember we are people. People get as annoyed with us as we do of “them.”
Unpacking Something Happens
The story up to this point has been fun, but hasn’t answered a rather important question. Why is Will so special? Now we begin to see. The Last Debacle The Mark VI was Nobody’s first attempt to power a motored transport with an “Applied Imagination Battery.” Theoretically this battery could have lasted for several months…
Fiction Tuesday – Something Happens
Today’s blog continues my long-neglected satirical fantasy, In The Land of the Penny Gnomes Agent Other escorted the group off the train and loaded them on to some military-looking vehicles parked on a nearby dirt road. They’d been instructed to remain silent until they’d been properly loaded, which Nobody seemed to forget every sixth step….
“Fake News” and Social Media Reaction
I’ve been seeing a great deal of social media shares declaring how “Don Lemon stormed off the set” when someone called a segment “fake news.” This “storming” was, alternatively, cheered and condemned by partisans looking to score points in the culture war. Frankly, there are days when I think progressives and reactionaries deserve each other…
