The Death of a Geek Shop

Yesterday (as I wrote this), I found out that the best place for me to actually play Magic: the Gathering, one Silver Creek Game Shop in Sellersburg, Indiana, had closed for good three hours earlier.  I wished I had listened to my intuition and went to visit earlier that day.  Since then I have thought a lot about what might have gone wrong for it, what has gone wrong for other “geek shops” I’ve known, and lessons from all of them gathered so that another one might grace the Sunnyside of Louisville sometime.  I plan to make this a more universal article, so if you are not from around the Kentuckiana area do not fear…you will find things germane to you as well.

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Anime Review: The Familiar of Zero, Episode 1

zero-louiseWe have been slacking with the site lately, but reviews of 20 minute anime seem to work well.  So we decided to try to find something fun and we have…Familiar of Zero.  We have never seen it before, so watch with us as we have the episode embedded below (at least until Youtube pulls it), with our typical potshots of the episode, with a final analysis below it.  Here is our take of the first episode of The Familiar of Zero: entitled Zero Louise.

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