Look for Blades '68 to crowdfund next year.

Two games on the table tonight: another bout of “Apiary” and a victory over Ithaqua in “Elder Sign.” #boardgames

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Can’t say I’m looking forward to this new season of Doctor Who #DoctorWho

I looked forward to this for a long time and I really did my best. But I found it deeply disappointing. Couldn’t finish it. #booksky

Not sure why it took us so long before we got around to playing Apiary, but it was great! #boardgames @stonemaiergames.com

A very enjoyable game of “Fate of the Fellowship,” which we won, unexpectedly, at the eleventh hour. We were impressed by the game’s mirroring of Tolkien’s trilogy. #boardgames @zmangamesofficial.bsky.social

Today … Brink! Another great game, though I lost fairly dramatically. #boardgames

Our first, long-awaited game of Vantage. We were happily surprised by how different each of our paths turned out. #boardgames @stonemaiergames.com

My grandfather didn’t know he was a Taoist. He had fished the river Awe for sixty years. Life is sensed as a flowing movement, a power like wind or water. When he cast, it was the bank that moved, not the river… —Lorn Macintyre, “Satori” from The Bridport Prize Anthology 2013 #Zen #poetry #fishing

Lovely game of Harmonies tonight with the family! #boardgames

I’m heading to that London.

Kinder Scout's northern edge, Peak District, Summer Solstice June 2024, photo by Sarah Lister.

Although I forgot to take a picture of the endgame, we played “Deep Regrets” for the first time last night. It resulted in a tie … which I lost because of my long litany of lingering regrets. Fabulous! So happy to have backed its expansion “Deeper Regrets.” #boardgames @tettix.bsky.social

Hilarious times with “Not Today, Murder.”

Played Nemesis today boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/16... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com app

Another tangle with Nemesis. We all died. #boardgames

"Did you have the shishkebabs?" "From the moment we arrived."

I love this poem. Author is Laura Gilpin.

How it started, how it ended … I pulled off a fabulously cinematic victory in tonight’s session of Nemesis, completing my objective as I launched my escape pod just as the ship reached the end of its self-destruct sequence. So close, right up until the nail-biting finish. #boardgames

P Djèlí Clark’s always a joy to read. #booksky

Four of the games, out of eight, that we played over the weekend at #GeekwaytotheWest, including my three favourites: Raiders of the North Sea, Altay, and Harmonies. Learning and playing eight new games in two days was a heavy cognitive lift . . . But a great time. #boardgames

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Last night’s game of Arkham Horror. We lost … but we came very close to winning! That’s a victory. #arkhamhorror #boardgames

Honors College students from Bowling Green State University #BGSU came to Chaosium Con today to learn about story development & world building! They had one-on-one time with Call of Cthulhu assoc editor Paul Fricker, and then joined in #TTRPG sessions—here's to a new generation of talented creators!

Choose to be a grandpa with a toolbox

My long-anticipated delivery of “Deep Regrets” arrived wrapped up in newspaper like cod and chips. Fabulous. Couldn’t ask for more. Well, maybe an actual cod and chips to go with it … and a pint of Sam Smith’s Old Brewery Bitter … and for it to be 1987. Thanks @tettix.bsky.social #boardgames

Finishing out The Rise of Fenris, with Episodes 7 & 8. Really a great experience, though Fenris is very hard to beat. #boardgames #Scythe #TheRiseofFenris @stonemaiergames.com

Very close Episode 6 of “The Rise of Fenris”: 72, 67, 65! #boardgames #scythe @stonemeiergames.com

Yorkist Edward IV won a crushing victory #OTD at Towton, 1461, one of the bloodiest battles on English soil. Entering York, Edward ordered rotting heads of his father, brother, uncle – placed on pikes above Micklegate Bar a year earlier - to be replaced with Lancastrian heads.

I had high hopes for Ayoade’s book. “Nabokov meets Spinal Tap”? What’s not to like about that? But it just turned out not to be very funny at all, and sort of flat and laboured. I’m sad. #booksky

Bonus Scythe night with two scenarios for the Fenris campaign. #boardgame #Scythe #RiseofFenris

Revisiting my teenage obsession with “Elric of Melniboné,” I was amused by Elric’s observation that the despotic usurper Yyrkoon would “make Melniboné great again.” #booksky

When proof of Einstein’s Glaswegian birth First hit the media everything else was dropped… —Robert Crawford, “Alba Einstein” Albert Einstein (1879–1955) was born #OTD, 14 March. In Glasgow. Robert Crawford reads “Alba Einstein” on @thepoetryarchive.bsky.social: poetryarchive.org/poem/alba-ei...

Since the cover’s plain, I’m including a poem from Nichisei Gensei’s “Grass Hill” instead. I’ve lived the experience, but my favourite of his, not in this collection is: “Monk Gensei in Fukakusa passed away. Even though he is myself, I would like to express my heartfelt condolences” #booksky #poetry

“I pick the first persimmon of the year, although I do not know if it is bitter or not.” Fukuda Chiyo-ni (1703-75) #poem

Interesting because it intersects with my old research area, but I don’t have much more to say about it. Despite its topic, not really my genre. #booksky

she wants to strip the willow she desires the keys to the National Library she is beckoning the lasses in the awestruck crowd … —Kathleen Jamie, “The Queen of Sheba” First published in THE QUEEN OF SHEBA, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 1994 A #poem for #InternationalWomensDay #BookwormSat

Saxony didn’t do very well in Episode 3 of “The Rise of Fenris.” But I did rescue Tesla’s daughter, and so I’m now playing a new faction for Episode 4. #boardgames #Scythe #TheRiseofFenris #StonemeierGames

I’m feeling a bit torn over “Secret Diaries.” Impressive and important research… but I’m not in the end convinced that translates into an engaging narrative. So, an ambitious project that didn’t quite work for me, though I’m not sorry I read it. #booksky

A short 🧵 of Scottish poetry for #WorldWildlifeDay – 3 March 2025 1: Kathleen Jamie, “The Hinds” Published in THE BONNIEST COMPANIE, @picadorbooks.bsky.social 2015 www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kath...

This week’s column… www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ma...

#OtD 1 Mar 1954 a group of students at Indiana University started the Green Feather Movement to protest against a McCarthyist attempt to ban Robin Hood from school books for promoting communism stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8...

What I love most about this rehearsal for Kenobi and Vader’s epic duel is that while Dave Prowse is dressed for a work-out, Alec Guinness is wearing a collared shirt, slacks, and a pair of slippers. #StarWars

I’ve been reading this again because I’m teaching it, but I could never tire of it. More than 20 years old, it could have been written yesterday. #booksky

The Empire of Saxony was never going to beat an alliance of the Crimean Khanate and the Togawa Shogunate in Episode 2B: Peace. Crimea wins! #Scythe #TheRiseofFenris #StonemeierGames

An unexpected victory for me with @roxley.bsky.social’s Brass: Birmingham. #boardgames

Geese fly over, frogs crouch under, owls laugh in despair at the heaven-bound tricksters that we failed to oppose being too busy proving how radical we were. From ‘Nine Poems’, in 'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls', Peter Riley longbarrowpress.com/featured-poe...

Two Darlington councillors investigated after ‘wrestling’ in parish meeting