You have taste, sir. I spied the Hunt for Red October board game in an antique store today, and if they’d been asking less than $45 for it… so tempting.

I can appreciate that. I think my own shyness keeps me from embracing D&D style role playing. But back in the ancient times, I loved doing realtime role playing via IRC chat channels. It’s a very specific kind of collective storytelling.

Zoom opens up a lot of possibilities when it comes to organizing role playing games.

Thank you, Greg. Sometimes, writing helps.

Miss us, and look down on us, as we miss you and look up at the lessons, and examples, and memories you’ve left us.

Dad.

We miss the devoted husband he was for nearly half a century. I miss the father who taught me service and commitment. We miss the grandfather, who made my son “believe in G-d, because G-d is the ultimate wish giver, and I wished for a best friend, and PopPop was my best friend.”

He just wanted to go and be with his mama and daddy again, but he told us that for as much as he wanted that, he would miss us. And so finally, he got the rest he wanted, the reunion he longed for, and now, we go on missing each other.

The worst part of Alzheimer’s is that it takes a person away from you slowly, in pieces: first their memories, then bits of their personality, and eventually even their ability to recognize you. My father didn’t want any of that, not for himself, but more so for us.

My G-d, that image is just absolutely gorgeous.

Makes me want to sell the house, find a cheap hovel, and simply publish something that would make Harold T.P. Hayes proud. My wife and son, of course, disabuse me of this fantasy.

The weird thing is I know that magazines are still here. Certainly they’re more niche. They aren’t the cultural or economic force of their height. But I look at MagCulture and other places, and I see a veritable buffet of the printed and the bound.

Into the mists of Mordor. I feel like you do, like I was made for magazines. The style of writing, the storytelling, the merger of layout design, photography, and the written word. We all lost something, and we didn’t even manage to save all the trees.

I harbor suspicions that Maine is just one giant collective of anarchist commune polycules, all having been run out of New York and its adjoining states.

Maybe the anarchist commune advocates were right, and we all would be better off in smaller little communities in upstate New York? It couldn’t scale, but damn if the sex and gossip wouldn’t be better.

Lucky, you are, or good and lucky. I fell out of magazine journalism 18 years ago, because it wasn’t paying the bills like it used to. I’ve managed to keep work as a designer, including textbooks, which is fun. But I wasn’t happy about this 18 years ago, and I’m still not.

Out of sheer curiosity, did you come to it entirely by way of a traditional radio career path?

I did get to do a podcast, ever so briefly, during the dog days of the COVID pandemic, for my old job. I’ll always love having interviewed Eli Attie… and if you don’t know who that is, he was Al Gore’s speechwriter and then helped write The West Wing.

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