Monthly Archive:: October 2020
Oct 07 2020
Online Magic: The Gathering Fiction Returns
I’ve written a lot here in the past about the story line of Magic: The Gathering. More than the game itself, in fact. It’s a rich setting with nearly limitless potential due to the infinite worlds that comprise its Multiverse, but some of the recent choices that Wizards of the Coast has made…
Oct 06 2020
Twins Tackles One of the Toughest Challenges in Life: Middle School
Starting middle school can be strange and awkward. For many students, it means having to deal with a new way of doing school—the first time changing classes, having multiple teachers, being to pick at least some of their classes, and usually having to adapt to all of this while going to a larger school…
Oct 05 2020
5 Family-Friendly Ideas for Halloween in the Time of COVID-19
The Halloween season is generally filled with trips to apple orchards and pumpkin patches, decking out your house, and having a frighteningly good time with friends and family. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, things are going to be pretty different this year, but that doesn’t mean you can’t…
Oct 04 2020
Support Your Local Businesses with Shirts from Twin Cities Generosi-Tees
The pandemic and ensuing economic implosion have touched everyone on the planet by now. We all have a favorite business or event that has been shuttered, organizations that bring a little joy into one’s life vanishing and making 2020 that much more dreary – “boring” isn’t quite the right word,…
Oct 04 2020
This Week in Geek (10/5/20–10/11/20)
Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, October 5, to Sunday, October 11.
Please note: Due to risks from the global COVID-19 pandemic, and in following current health guidelines recommending both social distancing and limited…
Oct 03 2020
Carrion’s Body Horror Is a Bloody Good Time
There are certain monsters in popular culture that are frightening in that they can’t be reasoned with or their motives understood. The titular creature in John Carpenter’s The Thing isn’t weighing the morality of toying with the Antarctic researchers. The Xenomorphs in the Alien movies aren’t sending…
Oct 03 2020
On the Rocks Takes a Tender Approach to Family and Relationships
With On the Rocks, writer/director Sofia Coppola has crafted a romantic drama that seems almost doomed to be compared to her 2003 film Lost in Translation. Once more she has teamed up with Bill Murray for a stirring tale of two people in chaotic relationships who try to find a connection. Whereas Lost…