David Given Schwarm

stubborn
four of cups

On the Four of Cups, a man is sitting under a tree with three cups while being offered a fourth by a hand from a cloud. He stares at the three cups he has as if he is dissatisfied with them. This card suggests disappointment and discontent. What you believed was brilliant when your emotions were…
Frogs
Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti

Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti My rating: 5 of 5 stars A completely fantastic book–I am not sure I have ever found a book that more accurately represents how I think. The social anxiety, the name dropping, the sex, the literary references, the work ethic, this book just has it all–fantastic and a fast read.…
Fireballs & Flumphs

Recap This week at Alakazam Comics in Irvine, CA, the Game Show continues to explore the Briny Maze in search of mind flayers to murder–we battle a spectator named Jomlus, meets some friendly flumps and battle an encephalon cluster. Lots of fireballs, we consume a lot of healing potions, and eat some olive oil ice cream.…
Frogs
Five of Wands

On the Five of Wands, five young men fight among themselves with five wands. When you put energy in a task, it could develop rapidly in the early stages and not so much in later stages. The absence of genuine rivalry can make achievement easy. However, once you reach greater heights, winning becomes harder. You experience…
The City We Became (Great Cities, #1) by N.K. Jemisin (Goodreads Author)

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin I am not a fan of NY. This book is a huge celebration of all things New York, with a great magic system and some cosmic horror thrown in for fun. But if you do not like NY it is very hard to slog through all of the…
Alex’s bar

Vince, Jack, and I went and saw Guitar Wolf. It was bad.
Plants are the Earths Enemy

Recap This week at Alakazam Comics in Irvine, CA, the Game Show enters the Briny Maze in search of mind flayers to murder–there are also prisoners to rescue and shards to restore, but that is way less important than killing mind flayer. We meet some githyanki who are not interested in killing mind flayers. We…