Elegant Entropy

A new slice of Trek-flavored cheese

December 6, 2012December 24, 2014Movies, TelevisionInto Darkness, Star Trek

I’m not a huge fan of reboots in general, and the Star Trek reboot in particular. Oh, the J.J. Abrams 2009 movie was fine enough on it’s own merits, even considering the what-was-Spock-doing-in-the-cave plot hole.

The Meandering Dead

November 13, 2012December 24, 2014Fiction, HumorNovember 2012

When the zombie apocalypse came, it really wasn’t all that bad. It started small enough. A new strain of flu was making the rounds that fall — not a bad strain, nothing to panic over,

The Gates will be Closing Soon

November 2, 2012December 24, 2014FictionNovember 2012, the gates

“It’s late. The gates will be closing soon.” “Why? Do you have somewhere to be outside?” “No. It’s just an observation.” “Come back to bed. You’ve observed enough for now.” “Move over. You’re taking up

The Cabin by the Lake

November 1, 2012December 24, 2014FictionCabin on the lake, November 2012

I’m not participating in National Novel Writing Month, but I have decided to try to write 2,000 words of original fiction every day this month, just because. Bits and pieces, fragments, whatever. Surprising no one

Revenge of the geek

October 31, 2012December 24, 2014MoviesStar Wars

As you may have heard — if you weren’t getting blown away or flooded — there’s going to be another Star Wars trilogy of movies starting in 2015, episodes VII, VIII and IX. At this

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away….

October 30, 2012December 24, 2014Culture, Fiction, Movies, WritingStar Wars

So, Disney has bought Lucasfilm, and a new Star Wars film is coming out in 2015. I’m not sure whether to be excited or terrified. I was 14 the summer that Star Wars came out.

Phantasmal Lights

September 23, 2012December 24, 2014GamesPhantasm, Phantasmal Lights, roleplaying games, RPGs

Believe it or not, I still get requests from people looking for Phantasm and Phantasmal Lights, the role-playing games I created in 1994 and 1999, respectively. Since I took down my Wildhaven Creative site a

Making a break for it

September 7, 2012December 24, 2014Humor, Technologyemail, wildhaven creative

So, that was weird. I registered my first domain name, wildhavencreative.com, about 10 years ago with a discount registrar that you’ve heard of but whom I won’t identify here. At the same time, I also

Roll to save

August 31, 2012December 24, 2014GamesDungeons and Dragons, Far Future, Onyx Path, Paizo, Pathfinder, roleplaying games, Traveller, Wizards of the Coast, World of Darkness

A few weeks ago, I noticed that a group called The Onyx Path is now the officially licensed producer of tabletop RPG products owned by White Wolf. Of course, White Wolf was bought up by

Random notes

August 27, 2012December 24, 2014Culture, WritingRandom notes

I am chipping away at Reason to Be, hoping to find the novel that already existed in the big block of words. Copy editing is hard, especially when it’s your own work. For whatever reason,