My sophomore year of college, I had this hypercompetitive roommate named Stephen. Before we met, Stephen hadn’t played Magic: The Gathering in something like seven or eight years, but he picked it up again easily. As a casual Magic player, I thought the situation was ideal: I suddenly had someone to play against within 10 feet of me at all times! (more…)
It seems that in the years since the early ’90s, the excitement surrounding Halloween dwindles more and more. There are less horror movies in theaters, Christmas decorations hit stores in the first week of October and from what I have seen over the last two Halloweens (on a Saturday and Sunday no less), less trick-or-treaters. (more…)
When I was a kid in 1987, I saw The Karate Kid for the first time and like every other boy my age I wanted to learn karate. I was under the impression that you could just walk into any dojo and find Pat Morita waiting to take you under his wing and teach you how to perform the perfect crane kick. I assumed that in no time I would be out on the streets standing up to bullies and winning the hearts of my peers. What I didn’t know at that young age was the old adage about making an assumption and how it does nothing more than “make an ass out of you and me.”
Last December, in “An Unwinnable Letter to Santa”, I asked Santa for the new Magic the Gathering Premium Deck Series: Fire & Lightning set. Well apparently I wasn’t as good a boy as I had thought and I did not find it under my tree on Christmas Day.
Thanks for nothing Santa.
This was just fine because I am after all a thirty-one year old man with a job so last Sunday I went down to my local game shop and bought it myself (you gotta treat yourself right). (more…)
