Posts Tagged by holidays

Thanksgiving is upon us! It’s time to let out my belt, pick some side dishes, and prepare to cook. Tomorrow will involve turkey–one of the few times a year I dedicate a whole day to planning, preparing, chopping, cooking, and devouring a meal. Even more, it’s one of the few times that I get to stand side by side with relatives and work together on a tasty project. I enjoy baking up a chicken many nights, but that’s so much less impressive in size and…

Merry Christmas from all of us here at Gnome Stew! Whether you do more gaming or less over the holidays, whether your stocking is full of dice or coal, and whether you celebrate Christmas or another holiday, we wish you and yours the very best and a very happy new year. 20th-level necromancers have determined that approximately 40% of all gnomes turn into dust when exposed to a camera, so here are 6/10 of the Gnome Stew crew celebrating the holidays this year. That technically…

Our self image as a people of leisure is a little skewed. The industrial revolution was notorious for twelve hour days, six days a week, of tireless, dangerous, back breaking labor. So it makes sense that we’ve finally transcended that– we have the 40 hour week and most people are scheduled for two days off a week. That’s more than ever before, right? Not really, it turns out. I was recently reading with the history channel on in the background when a show came on…