Ethan Gilsdorf





Ethan Gilsdorf

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Ethan Gilsdorf is the author of the travel memoir / pop culture investigation Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms.

After playing Dungeons & Dragons religiously in the 1970s and 1980s, Ethan Gilsdorf went on to become a poet, teacher, critic and journalist. In the U.S. and in Paris, he’s worked as a freelance correspondent, guidebook writer, and film, book and restaurant reviewer. Now based in Somerville, Massachusetts, he publishes travel, arts, and pop culture stories regularly in the New York Times, Boston Globe, and Christian Science Monitor, and has been published in dozen of other magazines and newspapers worldwide, including National Ge...more


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TIM AND ERIC"S BILLION DOLLAR MOVIE


Directed by: Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim


Written by: Heidecker, Wareheim, Jonathan Krisel, Doug Lussenhop, Jon Mugar


Starring: Heidecker, Wareheim, Robert Loggia, Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Zach Galifianakis


Running time: 93 minutes


At: Kendall Square


Rated: R (nearly every bodily and sexual function and dismemberment possible)


by Ethan Gilsdorf


[originally a...

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“Who needs sports stardom when you can shoot fireballs from your fingertips?”
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“Real life this fdar had taught me that in the adult world, fate was chaotic and uncertain. Guidelines for success were arbitrary. But in the world of D&D, at least there was a rule book... By role-playing, we were in control, and our characters... wandered through places of danger, their destinies, ostensibly, within our grasp.”
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