The hosts have conferred and we’ve decided to stop producing the Weekend Reading posts. They require a pretty surprising amount of work to put together, and they just weren’t getting much engagement. However, we’re not about to take something away without giving something back in return! What we have decided […]
Weekend Reading
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All three of the StG hosts are away from home this weekend. Jenny and Peter are at Fear the Con – if you’re in the St. Louis, MO area, come and say hi! Weekend Reading will resume as normal in two weeks. -Peter
Jenny This article is called “I Don’t Really Care What Gary Gygax Had to Say.” Like so many other articles, has a somewhat misleading title, but the content is quite good. I think I’d have titled it “Please Don’t Use Gary Gygax’s Opinions About Gaming to Try to Prove Someone […]
Grant YES HELLO HI I AM BACK HOW ARE YOU No, seriously—sorry I’ve been absent from the past couple Weekend Reading posts. Things have been … intense … at work. But who cares? Let’s do this thing! An old gem I found a while back: A Reddit thread with food historians […]
Jenny Every now and then on the podcast, I’ll mention something called a “monstrance.” It’s a glass case that holds a consecrated host so that parishioners can see it during a particular type of service. I was recently reminded by this article that (at least in the High Anglican church) […]
Peter The Guardian has a really neat article on how the famous Giant’s Causeway formed here. Neat bits of Celtic myth and geology both in this one. According to legend, the Giant’s Causeway was built by the Irish giant, Finn MacCool, as a crossing to confront his Scottish rival. Scientists […]
Our Weekend Reading series (brought to you by our Patreon backers) continues with a curated selection of articles—and a few other things—from around the Internet that interested us this week! We’re currently on an every-other-week schedule (again.) Jenny Through my regular internet browsings, I came across a lovely short comic about angels titled Gloria! […]
Grant is still crazy busy. We’re hoping to have him back on the Weekend Reading post next week. Thanks for your continued understanding and patience, and Happy Easter! -Peter Peter Gnome Stew has been running a series of letters to past selves with a gaming focus. This one speaks to […]
Note: Grant has this week off from Weekend Reading for family reasons (nothing to be concerned about). He’ll be back next week, but for this week, Jenny and I have tried to be a little extra interesting. Enjoy! -Peter Jenny One of my friends that I met during my time […]
Our Weekend Reading series (brought to you by our Patreon backers) continues with a curated selection of articles—and a few other things—from around the Internet that interested us this week! Thanks to the generosity of our Patreon supporters, we’re back on a weekly schedule. And yes, we’re excited by that. Thank you! Peter This […]
Our Weekend Reading series (brought to you by our Patreon backers) continues with a curated selection of articles—and a few other things—from around the Internet that interested us this week! We’re currently on an every-other-week schedule. Peter Gnome Stew has an article on Dominant Players. It’s a very good article, but it was […]
Jenny Once again, here I am with another cool, old church, though this one’s a little bit on the older side of the ones I’ve posted about in Weekend Reading before. These are the archaeological remains of a 5th century church recently rediscovered in Turkey. Archaeologists believe they may have […]