Little Drummer Boy Challenge

“The game is out there. And it’s either play or get played.” Truer words, this time from The Wire‘s Omar Little, have never been spoken when it comes to the LDBC. And having just complete...

https://littledrummerboychallenge.com/2024/01/15/puh-rum-pum-pum-post-game-results-for-2023/

It’s an unusually warm day here in Chicago, people, and Mrs. LDBC and I have to head to the store to pick up the ingredients for our traditional Mississippi Roast (an entire stick of butter and...

https://littledrummerboychallenge.com/2023/12/24/day-366-the-thrill-of-victory/

Apologies for going more than two weeks without an update, fellow LDBCers, but life got in the way. (Stupid life. Everybody tells you to get one, and now look.) A few things to talk about here. F...

https://littledrummerboychallenge.com/2023/12/10/day-17-this-aggression-will-not-stand-man/

A friend of mine tells me I stink at self-promotion, so here’s my attempt to prove him wrong this year. If you’re looking for a gift for the reader in your life, the first three novels of my ...

https://littledrummerboychallenge.com/2023/11/25/time-out-for-self-promotion/

As is the case every year, it doesn’t take long for The Boy to claim a victim, and in this instance, it took only 37 minutes. Stephen Leigh is our 2023 First Fallen, meeting his fate at 12:37 a...

https://littledrummerboychallenge.com/2023/11/24/day-1-mourning-glory/

Puh-rum-pum-pum-pum, people. Once again, The Boy is back in town. But He won’t be dressed to kill, though he may be down at Dino’s Bar ‘n’ Grill if he figures he can score some victims. A...

https://littledrummerboychallenge.com/2023/11/24/heeeeres-drummy-2/

It started with the question above 13 years ago: shall we play a game? And I decided we shall. I just had no idea what it would eventually become. Mind you, I didn’t make the game up. That was ...

https://littledrummerboychallenge.com/2023/01/12/puh-rum-pum-pum-post-game-results-for-2022/

And there you have it, friends—another Challenge in the books. I’ll keep this uncharacteristically brief except to say that I realized I’m always asking others to bravely post in-the-moment...

https://littledrummerboychallenge.com/2022/12/24/day-335-theres-got-to-be-a-morning-after/

“All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you…” — Richard Adams There’s a moment in o...

https://littledrummerboychallenge.com/2022/12/20/day-26-but-first-they-must-catch-you/

Shana Tognazzini had a problem. With a capital P, and that rhymes with B, and that stands for Boy. Shana, like all of us, was devoting nearly all of her waking hours to keeping The Boy at bay, le...

https://littledrummerboychallenge.com/2022/12/08/day-14-im-sticking-with-you/