Best Friend and I are in the process of finding a new apartment. I’ve spent a lot of time researching complexes online, and as a potential renter I’m frustrated by a handful of stupid things I’ve seen over and over again. As a marketer I’m even more frustrated because I know these things are chasing…
Category: Non-Fiction November
Review: Meat Eater
Steven Rinella has been a hunter his entire life: fishing since age three, hunting squirrel since eight, and whitetail hunting starting at age 13. Like many (or perhaps most) hunters, this passion for hunting was instilled by his father, and Rinella feels bound to pass on those lessons to the next generation. Meat Eater: Adventures…
Review: Leaving Mundania
Live action role-playing, or LARP, is defined as “a type of role-playing game in which each participant assumes a particular character and acts out various scenarios at events which last for a predetermined time.” Although most people associate LARP with a bunch of people dressed as elves beating each other with foam swords, the tradition…
Non-Fiction November 2013
That’s right folks, it’s time for the 4th annual Non-fiction November — time to lay aside my beloved fiction and get a reality check by reading only non-fiction for the entire month. There’s plenty of reviews from previous years, and here’s a sneak peek of what I’ll be reading this time around. NFN 2013 books…
“Dalekmania”
When the first “Dr. Who” episode aired in 1963, people were immediately hooked. For the uninitiated, the show follows the adventures of a being called the Doctor, who is actually an alien from a planet called Gallifrey. He travels through time and space in his TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimension in Space), most often with…