Darron

Today I will write about my closest friend during my high school years: Darron. I first met him when I arrived at Saint Academy as a Freshman, and to me he seemed like a wise-ass. He wore small wire-rimmed glasses and had a perpetual, seemingly sarcastic smile on his face. He was a big guy, …

Nostalgia: DragonRaid

I may have said in a previous entry that my first encounter with pen-and-paper role-playing games was with BattleTech when I was at Asbury in 199X. That’s not exactly true. I neglected to mention the actual very first PnP RPG I ever played: The DragonRaid Adventure Learning System. DragonRaid was a “Christian” role-playing game. Basically, …

The Friend Zone: Episode Seven

This isn’t very significant, but I wanted to mention it because I find it somewhat memorable. I didn’t even really have a crush on this girl, but it is an instance where she and I seemed to have a bit of chemistry that I wasn’t willing to acknowledge. Her name was Alicia, and she worked …

Plant Beast

I dreamed that I was infected with some kind of parasite. There was a little line on my arm, and a little string poking out. I grabbed it and pulled it and it ripped upward out of my skin like pulling an electrical wire out of a wall, all the way to the tip of …

Materialism is Solopsism

This is a thought I had a long time ago, when I was in a more Spiritual frame of mind. I guess it’s really an oxymoron and completely, absolutely wrong, because Solipsism consists of living entirely inside your head and believing that nothing else is real – but Materialism consists of examining the outside world …