A Gnome's Ponderings

I don’t know really anything about the Persona video games but I know some folks really like them. Doing a bit of reading, I found out Perso...

  Every year, since before we were even married, my wife bakes me a themed birthday cake. This year, she made a Taskmaster-themed cake. Ta...

  I have slightly mixed feelings about Packing Party. On the down side, it feels weak to me compared to what I’ve come to expect Shiny Pigeo...

  Weetzie Bat is Tales of the City on peyote. It is the first book in a series by Francesca Lia Block. I had heard that it was a pioneerin...

  I have tried several times to write about the video game Balatro. And every time, it ended up being paragraph after paragraph of me summar...

  Sink the Bismarck is a hit of a historical oddity to me. I remember seeing it years ago, close to when it originally came out. At that t...

  I’ve been meaning to get around to reading some A. Lee Martinez. They specialize in deconstructive/reconstructive fantastic comedy. You kn...