RIP, Gary Gygax

He had a profound effect on my life and geek culture. I'm sorry to hear of of his passing

...but all of the Rodneys matched

So in my son's history of rock and roll class, they are doing a unit on the Talking Heads, and while "Once in a Lifetime" is the song he is supposed to be writing a paragraph on, he was having a hard time with emotionally connecting to it.

This cannot be! says I. So we discuss the song and I provide him with the analogy of how he feels when he is playing his videogame and looks up to suddenly realize that *gasp* he's somewhere completely different from where he thought he was.

That seemed to be the key, and he was able to write the paragraph. After, I made him watch Lifetime Piling Up, which he really loved. "I didn't understand the song, mom, but all of the Rodneys matched."