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The Cure Set List Portland (Vancouver WA) Sunlight Supply Amphitheater May 28, 2016

Here’s the full set list for The Cure’s concert on May 28, 2016 in the Sunlight Supply Amphitheater in Vancouver Washington (which we’ll consider Portland for search purposes). It was a great show, unspoiled by the drunks and high people all around me who insisted on signing the wrong lyrics to almost every song. Sometimes they sang the incorrect lyrics in coordinated groups, which was impressive…

World Series Gifts for the Royals Fan

If you’re shopping for a Royals fan this year, the number of official World Series products can be bewildering. As a Royals fan here are some of my favorite reasonably-priced items that you might consider.

Here’s a great place to start, the official World Series Champion shirts worn by the team.

Another great item is the World Series cap like the ones worn by the Royals during the series.

If…

Experience of a Lifetime: World Series Game 2 is a Royals win!

As the Royals dominated the AL Central this year my brother and I had a decision to make. We could go back to KC for a playoff game again, as we did last year, or we could hold out and see if the Royals could make the World Series for the second year in a row. We decided to shoot for the moon and wait to see if they could get back to the Fall Classic. On Friday October 30, they won Game 6thanks…

Emerald City Comic Con Was This Weekend

Mt Rainier over Seattle

This weekend in Seattle Washington at the Washington Convention Center was the Emerald City Comic Con. I was unable to post here on M31Publishing due to a technical error with the site and because I was away from home I didn’t have the same access that I normally have and needed to correct the problem.

Thankfully the fine people over at Fangirlnation published my review of…

Magic the Gathering – Esper

Sphinx of the Steel Wind

While playing The Cube I discovered many cards that cried out to be put in decks. Several of them required new decks since they did not fit into my limited number of leftover decks when I reentered the world of playing Magic. One of those cards was the Sphinx of the Steel Wind.

The Sphinx of the Steel Wind is an Artifact Creature – Sphinx that costs BUW5 to cast and is…

ECCC Was Fun, Hertz Was Not

We just got back from Emerald City Comic Con and had a fantastic time. As a huge Buffy fan I enjoyed meeting Julie Benz and Charisma Carpenter and their panel with Clare Kramer was a highlight of the show for me. They seemed to be having a fantastic time joking and laughing with each other. I also found some great deals on graded comics and got to listen to Stan Lee speak again, which is always a…

Magic: The Gathering; Dimir, My Process for Deck Building

Hythonia the Cruel

Everyone has their own, unique, process for building a deck when it comes to Magic. Even people who build competitive, tournament decks have their own approach, that is part of the beauty of the game, that it taps into creativity on the part of the players. This also causes people to become attached to their decks. They built them, they play them, it’s something they are…

Magic : The Gathering About that Orzhov Deck

Obzedat, Ghost Council

Just the week before Christmas 2014 I got back into playing Magic: The Gathering. I dusted off my two old decks and after several painful defeats reworked them, taking out some old cards and putting in some new ones. I’ve been having so much fun I decided to make a new deck with all new cards.

I started with a couple cards I knew I wanted to play and then as I chose cards…

The Continuing Story of a Betta Named Gipsy Danger

Gipsy’s new tank

Degarla, alas my Degarla. As it turns out Degarla was a girl snail. Ebriah was not a girl snail. I discovered this when I checked the tank on Christmas morning to feed everyone and there was a gift of a clutch of eggs left on the edge of the tank. It didn’t take any time at all to discover that Degarla was the generous one who left the gift. What I did not know was that female…

Magic: The Gathering –Speaking of Johnny Decks

Avacyn, Angel of Hope

Last time I wrote about my Fallen Angel deck, now named Rakdos. I seem to recall that I promised I’d write up my Angel deck, now called Azorius(Blue and White). This is my slowest deck. The mana threshold went up from 5 to 7 when I rebuilt it and there is very little acceleration to be found playing Blue or White. I also didn’t want to dilute the deck by putting too many…

Bonus Pictures From Cons

Some photos from a couple of Cons past that may or may not have made it into posts. And one random picture of Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, because SCIENCE!

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Midna with Cursed Midna RCCC 2014

Scarlett Witch RCCC2014

Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman RCCC2014

Pacific Rim Cosplay including Newt and Gottlieb. RCCC2014

Ronin and Star Lord RCCC2014

Dalek

Won…

Portland Comic Con 2015 A Late but Great Review

Mothra cosplay w/thanks to S. Shadow’s Natural Photography

Wizard World’s Portland Comic Con happened at the Portland Convention Center in Portland, Oregon January 23, 24 and 25. Yes I’m a week behind and I do apologize, gentle reader. So many amazing things happened at the con and I did tweet one or two of them, and now I’d like to write them up properly.

Inspector Gadget Portland Comic Con 2015

A Prodigal Magic: The Gathering Player Returns To The Game

Rukh Egg

Well, that would be me. I stopped playing just after Mercadian Masques came out (has it been so long?). I had started playing Magic: The Gathering right after The Dark came out, so not a bad run but life got busy and I didn’t have the time or the money to keep up and it kind of fell by the wayside.

So fast forward to the week before Christmas and my family, after months of badgering,…

Ghost Shrimp, Vashta Nerada, Catfish, Gallifrey and Gipsy Danger–Yeah

Ghost Shrimp named The Vashta Nerada

A blue and red crown tail betta named Gipsy Danger (once again, don’t judge me), is the first pet I’ve had in 20 years. I have a lot of repressed pet love that is being showered on this particular betta. Gipsy has a 5.5 gallon tank, into which I’ve placed two mystery snails — Degarla and Ebriah Horror of the Deep (remember – no judging). I have so much…

Mothra Cosplay Makes The Rounds

Mosura-ya

After much thought, and many second thoughts I must confess, I shared a fairly unflattering photograph of my Mothra cosplay on the Mothra fan page. I should not have been worried. The people that run it are lovely and so are the fans. I chose the photo I did because it is the one with the best lighting and shows off the wings the best of any I’ve had taken so far. I look ridiculous…

The Flash, Doctor Who and Constantine

So I’ve been enjoying both The Flash and Constantine. Both very different shows from each other but good in their own way.

The Flashis great for family watching. I love a show you can watch with the family without worrying about appropriateness. Unfortunately I missed the first episode and sometimes the writing is a bit dicy but overall it is a good show. The writing seems to have settled down as…

A New Short Story: Invited and Minor Update on War In Flesh

So I wrote a little short horror story based upon some heavy fictionalization of time I spent in a fundamentalist church. It’s called Invited. Of course all of the characters are fictional and any resemblance to persons living or dead is completely coincidental. I’m really enjoying the short story format. It is as follows:

Invited By K. L. Zolnoski

Things had been going well, very well. The…