The Great Migration: Bringing the Guide Back to the Table

I started blogging on LiveJournal in 2003 as a way to process my thoughts and share my opinions. More and more feature content got mixed into my personal journals, so I opted to keep my personal stuff separate. In 2006, I created The Geeky Guide to Nearly Everything on Blogger as a home for my reviews of just about any content I consumed - books, movies, and TV shows. This led to the tagline  "Defining the world, one keyword at a time" as a way to capture the “mission" of the site. So the blog was a catch-all for just about anything that I wanted to write about, which I knew wasn’t a “best practice” as most other blogs were highly specialized.

In 2009, I got together with Tobie, and he introduced me to the wider geeky world of tabletop gaming, including modern board games starting with the likes of Carcassonne and tabletop role-playing games, initially through the World of Darkness line.

The Hiatus and the Pivot

After fifteen years of continuous updates and thousands of reviews, I started to slow down in 2019 because writing for the Guide stopped feeling like a fun outlet and felt more like a second job that I wasn’t getting paid for. I ultimately hit pause in mid-2021 with a vague promise to figure out a new direction for the site. The digital landscape had changed, and the "nearly everything" approach felt less like a guide and more like an unattainable goal that, quite frankly, overwhelmed me.

Today, The Geeky Guide returns. I’ve migrated from the legacy pipes of Blogger to a modern, curated home on Webflow. But this isn't just a change of scenery—it’s a refinement of the Geeky Guide mission.

Focusing the Lens

Moving forward, I’m focusing on the two pillars that have defined my daily life for the last decade, especially since I moved away from the blog to make more free time for myself: tabletop games and books.

• Modern Board Games: From quick push-your-luck games like Flip 7 to heavy economic Euros and narrative TTRPGs. I’m not just chasing the latest Kickstarter hype; I’m looking for games that we’ll honestly enjoy playing with our friends.
• The Reading Marathon: Since 2016, I’ve maintained a minimum "Book-a-Day" pace, logging over 3,600 books read in ten years. What started as toying with the reading challenge feature on Shelfari (where any of you on that platform, too?), is now developed into a disciplined commitment to reading.

A Curated Archive

You may notice that not every post from the 2006-2021 Blogger era has made the jump to this new site. I’ve hand-selected which reviews best align with our new Geeky mission, or at least reflect the voice I want to continue to contribute to the wider internet at large.

Whether you’ve been following me since my LiveJournal days or you’re just finding the site while looking for your next favorite board game, welcome back to the table. I’m still defining the world—just with a more focused set of keywords.