Gaming the Game

Zombie Insurrection Level 4, almost ready for beta testing.

Where the heck are we headed with all these high-pressure systems crashing into each other, socially and economically? We can ask Hon. Hannah C. Dugan, the judge they busted for the Dread Effect, or we could analyze it: Okay, let’s break it on down: Continue reading

90 Days of Mayhem

this is the cover for my song drop, “Price of Eggs”

the Epic Fails Tour: 2025 Edition. For a guy who blusters like he’s playing 4D chess, he sure fumbles like he’s trying to play it with mittens on backwards. Let’s list a few of the big screw-ups from his recent stretch — we could turn this into a timeline of bumbling hubris if we want: Continue reading

Gorillas Galore

Post-Mortem group meeting after a Reno Casino Run.

What’s needed in troubled times is camouflage — not hiding the object, but changing its story in the eyes of the enforcers.

“What’s this?”
“Oh, that? Just a little homemade emergency  crystal radio like they made in the thirties. Runs on radio waves. Great for hiking.”
“And this pendant?”
“Old radio hobby project. Got a whole bunch of these in the workshop — art meets steampunk.”
“What’s this strange symbol on your t-shirt?”
“Fractal Image I made for my Visual Arts Class. Totally decorative.”

You’re not just hiding in plain sight — you’ve made the truth unrecognizable to the ordinary person. That’s how the inner work survives while the outer world blows itself to smithereens. Continue reading

Thursday Again

I’m working on the staging for a musical stage review called “Atlantica, Pacifica & Trumpland” and I’ve got the first four musical numbers worked out, plus a little dialogue between, which is in iambic pentameter, the style and structure used famously by William Shakespeare, because I like the rhythm and it’s easier for the actors to memorize. Continue reading