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Apples to Apples
Apples to Apples is the best game I’ve played in years. It’s pretty basic: each player gets seven NOUN cards. The nouns cover a range of people, places, and things–everything from Frank Sinatra to...
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Palin Bingo, or, What to do for Kicks as You Inwardly Reel in Horror while...
(Image links to fun user-friendly pdfs) There’s also this… Tagged: Bingo, Games, Politics, Sarah Palin, Vice Presidential Debate
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Cowboys Full – James McManus
Jim McManus’s Cowboys Full is a thorough and energetic history of poker. Or, perhaps more accurately, Cowboys Full is a history of how power, will, and guile intersect with luck to shape national...
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Win a Copy of James McManus’s History of Poker, Cowboys Full
Biblioklept and the kind folks at Picador want to give you a handsome new trade paperback copy of James McManus’s history of poker, Cowboys Full – but you’ll have to ante up by taking our literary...
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The Disciple of Las Vegas (Book Acquired, 9.27.2012)
I guess these books are already big in the UK, or maybe they will be big, or something. This one’s an ARC and it doesn’t come out until early next year. Here’s the UK pub copy: Hired by Tommy Ordonez,...
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Blind Nut Seekers, Dumb Cake, True-Lover Test, and Other Games for Halloween
From Mary F. Blain’s Games for Hallowe’en (1912): BLIND NUT SEEKERS Let several guests be blindfolded. Then hide nuts or apples in various parts of room or house. One finding most nuts or apples wins...
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Blade Runner — The Aquarelle Edition
This strange and impressionistic paraphrase of Ridley Scott’s 1982 film Blade Runner is by Anders Ramsell, who painted all 12,597 frames using only water colors. The edit features dialogue and music...
View ArticleRead “Moxon’s Master,” Ambrose Bierce’s story about a chess-playing automaton
“Moxon’s Master” by Ambrose Bierce “Are you serious?—do you really believe a machine thinks?” I got no immediate reply; Moxon was apparently intent upon the coals in the grate, touching them deftly...
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