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Comment on My Mid-Winter Game Break by Lester

Lester — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:44:28 +0000

As a father of four adult daughters, I place myself at some hazard to say this, but here goes: When you’re young, a “lack of chicks” (as you put it) reflects poorly on your social skills; but when you’re older it’s sometimes called “escape.” :D

Comment on My Mid-Winter Game Break by john cochrane

john cochrane — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:55:35 +0000

Wonderful stuff! We usually game for a few hours at a high school friend’s New years Eve party, usually Risk plus something else (Killer Bunnies and Farkle this year), but it’s hardly a mini-con’s worth, not even a micro-con’s worth. It is, alas, just New year’s Eve, after all. Ah, but the old high school days, where we would game Friday night, Saturday afternoon-early Sunday morning, and sometimes Sunday afternoon, as well. What freedom! What … lack of chicks…. :(

Comment on A Pretty Pair of Published Poems by john cochrane

john cochrane — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:47:30 +0000

I did not play BBS site games, I was too busy d/l-ing, well, you know what teen males love d/l-ing! And the Novation D-cat modem (I thing that was the maker) was 110 baud, you coukld see each charater appear on the screen separately. but I didn’t want to seem too old right off the bat. 300 baud, Hmph! Woulda been like a racehouse to me.

Comment on A Pretty Pair of Published Poems by Lester

Lester — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:32:05 +0000

1200 baud! That was blazingly fast—compared to my 300-baud modem. I remember hour-long long-distance calls late at night just to download Bouncing Babies. Did you play any of the WWIV BBS games, perchance? There was a good Camelot game, as I recall.

Comment on A Pretty Pair of Published Poems by john cochrane

john cochrane — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:17:20 +0000

I almost always prefer a printed-on-paper version of whatever to read. I liked your first poem better, and this may not be “fair”, but at least in part because it was black text on tan background. (Almost as good, to me, as black on white, closest look you can get to printed page.) For me, both stories and poetry is about the message, and it’s way too distracting to me, as in the case of your second poem, of the editor or layoput person or whoever, to get overyly fancy with pictures and backgrounds and shadings and watermarks and neat-o effects, to the point that the writing is fighting for notice, let alone recognition, let alone engagement. I’m an old fuddy-duddy, I know, but hose are my honest views. Ah, BBSes, I remember those fondly… with my blazingly fast 1200 baud dial-up modem… good times! Thanks for sharing your poems, sir.

Comment on The GUP Method for Creative Writing by Patrick T. Randolph

Patrick T. Randolph — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:27:14 +0000

I love this formula, Lester. I tell the
similar things to my creative writing students at UW-L. Thank you for your
GUP!

Comment on Zombie Poems Soon to Be Unearthed by Thomas L. Vaultonburg

Thomas L. Vaultonburg — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:29:33 +0000

Congratulations on the zombie poems. You should check out Zombie Logic Press.

Comment on “Wednesday” by Lester

Lester — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:53:19 +0000

A posthumous knighthood, eh?

Perhaps I should add that to my signatures in a premonitory fashion:

Lester W. Smith, Esq.
President, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets
KCH (posthumous)

Comment on “Wednesday” by mazzz_in_Leeds

mazzz_in_Leeds — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:26:40 +0000

Anyone who moons board meetings deserves a knighthood, IMO

It must have been a long way down :)

Comment on Game Review: Zombie in My Pocket by Lester

Lester — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:21:55 +0000

Correction: I’ve just discovered a button on the Flash version that switches from “Play mode” to “Map mode,” allowing you to review the tiles laid thus far. Sorry, MWRP. My bad.