Mike A.

I was so focused on Betrayal At The House On The Hill last night at #GameNight I forgot to take more pictures. We played Scenario 8. I was the betrayer. I did not win. We also played the less spooky "Sea, Salt , And Paper"

A surprisingly low amount of Knizia this month. But I got in Whale Riders The Card Game (first published as Trend). Bear Mountain Camping Adventure was interesting: a deck builder that's mostly about getting cards to get resources.

Make a band edible: "Weird Al" Pastor

Who's having Meatloaf for dinner to celebrate Tim Curry?

thank you Love you🤍 I'm Trans gender ally🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Trans gender people is family✨

I totally understand the frustration with Christopher Nolan's #TheOdyssey. How are people supposed to take this as a serious adaptation when there's NO SIGN of New Donk City? Not even a single reference to jumping rope or Mayor Pauline.

Hearing @alexhorne.bsky.social doing the scoring on the @gamechanger.dropout.tv Earwigs made me realize that @samreich.bsky.social is just TOYING WITH US about the eventual Full Crossover between Game Changer and Taskmaster.

The most recent #GameNight had us playing Incan Gold, DNUP, Startups and (not pictured) Cockroach Poker. The pictured Temple for Incan Gold was what ONE player had access to after the rest of us all tried to grab the Unique Treasure at the same time. He easily won. He got 70 points, we got 5.

My #BoardGame plays for June. Really loved Mille Fiori, Lord of things to think about. Always good to play 6Nimit.

In May I made sure to make up for the lack of Knizia games in April. I really liked Avante Card, interesting take on a Deck Building Game and great production. I played Blue Moon City to prepare for Discworld: Readers Digested. Art Robbery remains a favorite recent find, quick and fun to lose.

It turns out both @tmbg.bsky.social and The Sacramento Public Library want me to Meet James Ensor

New Podcast Idea: Jess McKenna plays a character that doesn't know every musical ever and everyone else is misquoting musicals and it's just an hour each week of her trying to stay in character and also trying to correct everyone as politely as possible. Also: maybe that's just Theater Major Hell.

My favorite part of the @cbbworld.bsky.social Tour so far is that even Jess McKenna sees a guy who looks A LITTLE BIT like Paul F Tompkins and she has to share a picture with him, just like every Comedy Bang Bang Facebook Group I've ever been part of!

Dear Terfs: You suck.

If you lost a puzzle piece to a Pokemon puzzle I left it where I found it in the park at the Auburn Overlook. I think it's Pokemon. It looks kind of like Pikachu. Or maybe a Lego man. What's important is they're yellow and waiting for you.

I'm so mad at @zaltzcricket.bsky.social for his joke on @thebugle.bsky.social "Sun Tzu's password would be 'ThePaintingOfFighting554BC' which is a twist on his best selling book 'The Art Of War' and the year of his birth." It's just such a good joke. And he didn't even use it, it went in the bin!

With the last Tuesday now pay here is my April Board Game Night stats block. We replayed a lot of things this month, and I didn't get a single Knizia in! New to me was "Got Five!", which is a very fun deduction game that moves fast, even if I'm still pretty bad at it and Excalibur really good game.

"Granny Next had three children herself" she narrated foreshadowingly. (I'm not saying that Jasper Fforde has planned a book 6 (Or was it 7?(I can't seem to remember...)) plot point in book 3, but I'm not putting it past him.)

I was on Instagram and got a very strange algorithmic suggestion.

A mad scientist making demands to New York City.

Many tidings on this blessed Mario Day ⭐ #marioday

February Board Game Stats #GameNight #BoardGameGeek #BoradGames

roses are red violets are blue tom homan’s a bitch greg bovino, too

Yesterday's halftime show was the strangest adaptation of The Scottish Play I've seen. And I didn't know that they'd moved Dunsinane Hill all the way to Santa Clara.

I got an ad for a Price Is Right game with @drewfromtv.bsky.social being played by comedian Kristen Key.

I had a dream that I was writing a raddle.quest puzzle. Which is... Such a strange thing to dream. I don't remember what words I was putting in, but there were three words and one required two changes, which isn't how it works. Anyway: play Raddle, it's great.

Video editing is getting closer and closer to making "The 'Men Without Hats' Conversation Channel" real. Has science gone too far? @teamcocopodcasts.bsky.social @brianstack153.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/Uv89c...

Unlike Jason Mantzoukas, the secret casting of @kumail.bsky.social on @taskmaster.tv was actually a secret to me and I'm so excited!

The biggest surprise from the "12 Guests Of Christmas" episode of Doug Loves Movies is that @sammlevine.bsky.social met Bruce Vilanch and his WIFE!

This year's Time Travelers Convention has been postponed to last year.

4 years ago I saw a perfect car modification. No notes.

I decided to go back and listen to the James L Brooks miniseries of @blankcheck.bsky.social and on the Spanglish episode Griffin just said "By the time this comes out it's 2025" which was surprisingly accurate.

This comes up in my Memories each year and I hope that someone out there made these They Might Be Giants Action Figures. @tmbg.bsky.social

If I saw "Children Love The Red Hot Swamp Goo” in a @heathcliffthecat.bsky.social comic I'd think it was a flight if fancy, like The Meat Tank. But somehow it's real.

Watching Penn & Teller Fool Us"and during a trick I saw @erikaishii.bsky.social in the audience. I was nearly as excited to see them as they were to see their friends getting married on stage.

Played Botswana on 2025-11-12 boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/398 #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com

Learning today that @samreich.bsky.social wrote the "Girl's Costume Warehouse" Sketch and is therefore responsible for "Sexy 1900's Steel Conglomerate Tycoon!” being stuck in my head every Halloween for almost 20 years is making me glad to be a @dropout.tv subscriber.

Jim Henson & Frank Oz performed many double acts together, but here's a two-hander w/ Kermit & Grover that’s straight out of vaudeville. The timing puts Swiss clockwork to shame,& their interplay is incredibly kinetic, expertly delivering a lesson w/in the comedy. Jim’s timing at the end? Priceless.