Updates for YOU

New things on the site. A few words about the bold Frank Frazetta. A good…oh…nearly fifteen minutes about Dixit.

Are we all playing Red Dead Redemption? Have we all saddled up?

I’ll be talking about that this week too.

See you then!

ZOZ!

DowntimeTown – Dixit

The bold Dixit!

DowntimeTown – Dixit from Robert Florence on Vimeo.

ZOZ!

Thank Frazetta

Sigh.

Frank Frazetta passed away recently.

I first became familiar with Frazetta’s work when I saw the cover of a fantasy novel my sister’s boyfriend was reading. I must have been nine or ten years old. I can’t remember the name of the book, but the image is fresh in my mind. A muscular hero, under a strange sky. A beautiful woman, almost naked, on her knees beside him. Her arms around his waist. Her eyes turned to him with longing. A serpent of some kind rearing up behind them. Lush, wet jungle all around.

That’s how I remember the image. But I can’t find it anywhere. I think my mind has maybe created a new image over the years, filling in the blanks, working purely on a memory of eroticism and wonder. The image was something like that, though. I can feel it.

I remember the name. Frazetta. “Who painted THIS?” I needed to know. Frazetta. Frank Frazetta. A manly name. A hero’s name. Frazetta. A sexy name. I remember thinking that Frank Frazetta must have spent a lot of time with beautiful women. I remember thinking “Wow”.

I remember trying to read the book. The words couldn’t live up to that cover. The words were dry and sexless. They say “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” They could just as easily say “Don’t let Frazetta fool you.” We’d know what it means. Frazetta could make anything look good.

When I was a teenager, and every day was an awkward climb out of a pit full of hard-ons, it was Frazetta’s women I had fantasies about. There was no internet back then, to give us disposable videos and jpegs of worried, lost, bruised women to misguidedly lust over. What I had was books. Books that fell open to special pages. Book covers that filled my head with incredible, strong women. Savage women who could fight jungle beasts. Women with lumps and bumps and curves and huge hair.

I remember thinking “Wow”.

BOOM! Nae danger!

I think Frazetta’s women were probably the main reason why I got so heavily into Fantasy fiction. Frazetta’s women led me into roleplaying games, and eventually down the path into board games, and here. I would have followed Frazetta’s women anywhere.

Frazetta showed me the truth. He showed me that women are strong, and didn’t need saved. Frazetta is the reason why I’ve been with the same girl for fourteen years now. She’s strong, too. And a bit savage. I worry for the young guys out there today, who form fantasies based on what they find on porn websites. I worry for the women they will meet.

Some say that Frazetta’s work is sexist. The words above are my response.

Thanks, Frank.

Just...sigh.

Flying Blind

The website just moved server, so there’s a few glitches needing ironed out. For one thing, I can’t upload any images. Can’t even thumbnail this post! It’s a Wordpress thing and I know what the problem is. Once I get on the computer properly I can fix it.

Once I do, I can get my little piece on Frank Frazetta up, and introduce more of the videogaming aspect of the site.

New DowntimeTown episode is ready to roll out, so that’ll be up shortly too.

Thanks for your patience!

DowntimeTown Zombie Special Upcoming

Zombies. Everywhere.

Just popping in to let you know that I’m working on a Zombie special of DowntimeTown.

This will be an extra-long episode, looking at zombie themed board games.

I’ve noticed that a lot of people are drawn to zombie themed games as their first board game, so this will hopefully serve as some advice for those people.

Also, blood.

(Before then, a new DowntimeTown in the week ahead, about a wonderful, special game)

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