Two components I used on a regular basis broke recently: the microphone on my gaming headset and my almost 10-year-old Intel webcam that probably didn’t even have a one megapixel resolution and put a blue tint on everything when I used florescent lighting. I decided to replace both at once, and, on a professor’s recommendation, [...]
Deities’ Folly is a work-in-progress humorous tabletop role-playing game I began writing in fall 2009. Description Deities’ Folly is set in a world created by the Panpantheon, a council of all the polytheistic gods throughout mythology, as a result of a drunken romp during the after-party for their annual conference. The world is a fairly [...]
Note: this was my award-winning piece at the 2010 Texas Intercollegiate Press Association conference in Kerrville, TX. If you think your parents or in-laws are overbearing, try having a nagging sock puppet constantly bossing you around. At first glance, the premise of Dionosian Award-winning student and playwright Zachary Daniel Salcich’s two-act play “Tick Tock” seems [...]
I don’t like grocery shopping. Since I live in an apartment and don’t really share much food with my roommates, I’m there by myself most times, and it’s an unsettling experience. My fellow shoppers are self-absorbed and uncaring; the only things that exist in their world are groceries, their precious time, and, in some cases, [...]
