Essay

What follows over the next couple posts will undoubtedly be a maudlin and sentimental, not to mention wandering, journey through my thoughts on VAMPIRE: the Masquerade and its impact on my life. It seems somehow appropriate that I would take full advantage of the vanity nature of blog posting to comment on my 20-year relationship with this game. I'm in…

Writers write for love. They write because they love it. They write because readers give them love in return. It's all love. Every story is a gift given, received and reciprocated with love. Very few writers write for money. First, the grand majority of writers never make a fortune doing it. Those rare few who make it into the big…

written by SatyrPhil Brucato So, on Saturday night we watched the Werner Herzog's late-70s remake of the horror classic Nosferatu. As it stands, Herzog's version is considered a classic in its own right. It's taken me decades to get around to seeing it, but now that I have, I realize why that film enjoys its high reputation. For starters, Nosferatu…