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I finally got my biographer Jon to stop playing DDO and to stop Twittering in his own account long enough to post my very first Twitter adventure just as I dictated it to him. Velocity Girl and I just HAD to get out of all this rain in St. Louis. It’s been raining almost nonstop [...]


This year I went Trick-Or-Treating with some very cool Earth children. Below you can see Sabrina (redhead), Emily (brunette), and Max (blond boy) standing in line in Pacific, MO for an event where local businesses and other organizations celebrated the night by giving away free candy. Now that’s MY kind of holiday! Here’s me posing [...]


Hi, folks! Welcome to the relaunch of the official Smerdiverse website! My biographer Jon Klement has done an okay job blogging about my adventures so far, but I decided to take a more personal hand in things. Since coming to Earth two years ago, I’ve made a lot of friends among you humans, especially over [...]


At the past two Hypericons, I have been blessed to make the acquaintance of author Mari Adkins, author of the Harlan County Vampires series. Smerd took an instant like to Mari, so much so that he insisted on going home with her this past Hypericon 2009. He has found a wonderful new home with Ocean, [...]


I am blogging live from the basement of Eric Thomas, game designer of the Hacktastic d/20 RPG for Black Pigeon Press. This is my first experience gaming Hacktastic d/20, but I have attended cons with the Black Pigeon Press crew since Anime St. Louis 2008. These guys run packed gaming rooms filled with laughter, dice [...]


A few weeks ago at Archon 33, I had the privilege and honor of serving on a panel about webcomics with Shawn Gaston. His comic, Clockworks, is based on a steampunk genre role-playing game campaign that uses the Savage Worlds game system. Shawn is very talented and I am catching up in the Clockworks archives [...]


As Labor Day weekend approaches, I am getting my kids in the pool as often as possible before it closes. My youngest son, Ian. More Ian… My older son Max….. The mermaid, Sabrina… Here are the kids looking at a tiny toad, only about a centimeter and a half in length, that my daughter rescued [...]


Here are a few more captured Gen Con memories from 2009: Cobra Commander! The Empire starts ‘em young! Check out these wings! …And these claws…Rawr! Halo! Here is game designer Matt Duhan! Look for his new card game, Zombie Ninja Pirates in January 2010! Here are Shane and Shane. Shane Beddingfield (guest liaison at I-con [...]


Friday at Gen Con, the costumers were awesome! Here is an incredibly lifelike (can you say lifelike about an android?) Data. Here is a girl who looked a little cold in the air conditioning: Gen Con is also a great place to spend time with movers and shakers in the industry: Stephen Zimmer, author of [...]


The gang (the Harlan brothers, Tim and Mike) and Nathan Cormier and I travelled to Indy yesterday. Here we are at a pit stop. Here is the official Smerdiverse table! Powered by ScribeFire.