Matt Leacock doesn’t remember exactly how he got the idea for his board game. “I was a new dad… you’re kind of in a haze when you’re short on sleep,” he tells EXTRA with a laugh. He does remember wanting to create a game that he could play with his wife. He had loved and [...]
Aside from writing a travel column for Extra I have also written some features. This one was on the cover of the August 18th issue ——- Congratulations on your matriculation! You have made it to college, and while it’s likely many of your friends didn’t get this far you have, and this is your chance [...]
Dear Reader,
There is no more tiresome blog post than the apology for a long layoff so I will be brief. Been a long time, but I loved this content and the people who followed this website too much to kill it in the year since I last wrote or recorded anything for it.
I was out of work a long time. Not totally out of work, I always had a little work but I was most of the way out of work most of the time. This makes me either a good person to talk to about finding a job or a horrible one. If I am a [...]
I have started accomplishing the goals on my list, but I am going about it in all wrong order. Last week, I got a job (with these fine people). An honest to goodness full time non-freelance job. I got the job by working for free (with these fine people) but that is tomorrow’s post. This [...]
I recently gave a friend some advice that I realized I wasn’t following myself. I suggested that he start a writer’s journal. I used to keep one when I was in a creative writing class in high school. I liked it and it was helpful at the time, so I told him he ought to [...]
Whether we conform to them or rebel against them we’re all, in some ways, defined by our commitments. Family, work, and rent are some of the basic ones, but there are millions. Generally people think of commitments defining them in a negative way, living for the weekend, being tied to a horrible mortgage or job. [...]
The Economist recently did an interview with record executive Roger Faxon (Head of EMI music publishing), it fascinated me and it got me thinking about the future of music. Music is not an object For years music has been made into an object. There was a time when we wanted music to be an object–like [...]
The UEFA Champions League, M-1, the UFC, and the WEC are all in the midst of, just finished with or about to conduct major events, and its giving me a peculiar type of sports fantasy. An International Soccer Primer for the U. S. Sports Fan In the U.S. we are used to a one sport [...]
I used to hate getting haircuts. I am not that good at or excited figuring out things like what to wear and what makes me look good. I like to look good, but I don’t like the process of trying to make myself look good. And getting a haircut was one of the most annoying [...]
