Having just been through a soul sucking experience of being rejected as a public school teacher, I decided "what the hell."  I'd drive four hours down on Friday to Timmonium Maryland to play some crap and shoot the shit with some Ameritrashers. The first to greet me at the door was Keith "gatekeeper" Levy.  His first statement to me was "Great to see you!  Make sure you pay!"   I then bullshitted for a while, pleaded with Chili's to no avail to have a burger cooked less than "burnt", and eventually met up with Pete "King Put"...

  Best Movies of 2008   My first article/blog entry for Fortress Ameritrash! Hopefully not my last either. Besides board games and video games (Xbox360, PSP), I also happen to be an avid movie-lover. I love going to see movies in the theatre and make a strong effort to go at least once a week. One of the great joys of seeing a great movie is recommending it after to people you know will love it and having them come back to either thank you profusely or throw hot coffee on your face. I've written...

The next episode is going to feature a discussion on how,where and why we buy our games. We would love to have EVERYONES input on this, including your opinions how,where and why you buy your games where you do. You all know where we are going with this, and we didn't want to just throw up a poll, and read the results on the show. So make your best arguments, and we will discuss them and give our thoughts on the next episode. Mike and I will NOT post our thoughts in this forum,(you'll have to wait to episode #4...

Too close to home?  Perry Bible Fellowship is amazing. Give him all your money. 

This last weekend I got to get my Arkham on, about 7 hours of full-frontal Lovecraftian goodness. We played 2 games, one with 4 people and the 2nd with 3 - all the expansion cards, and we tucked the Kingsport board under the Dunwich one so the otherworld locations peeked out. 1 win, 1 loss. As normal, having a large helping of Arkham ...makes me want to play more Arkham.   Saturday was the local Sci Fi group (www.misfit.org) annual Trivia contest. For the first time in a while, some groups got eliminated - normally it's...