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Feb
05
February 5: A moment of reflection, always within reach
It's a workout routine for the muscles you need to stick it out with the people you have in the places you live.
9 min read
Jan
28
January 28: Humans are meat (beautiful) / Humans are meat (grotesque)
I've always been a hobby guy, but now I was a manic little Vitruvian dude, collecting interests like a Hoover-branded teenager.
8 min read
Jan
21
January 21: Machinery Constantly Churning
It's like looking at a broken tree limb, seeing the gnarled path it took after part of it snapped off in a windstorm.
8 min read
Jan
14
January 14: Hammock in a Deprivation Tank
I don't want to say that because the games are good, things will be all right. But what I will say is that because the games are good, I am all right. Or at least, I can be for a while.
9 min read
Jan
07
January 7: A Question of Attention
I like my singer-songwriter music to put a lump in my throat I can't get rid of until I've sung the song all the way through.
7 min read
Aug
18
Down Bad for Speed Racer
Speed Racer follows this template - periods of intense, visceral action, all of it as bright as the sun and subtle as a gun, followed by slower narrative vignettes that serve only to affirm that Speed is right, good, and hot.
8 min read
Aug
11
arboretum: feeling your choices among the trees
Games gives us the thrill of making big choices with the safety net of fiction - a simulation of the emotional intensity that comes with failure and success.
7 min read
Aug
04
mewithoutYou - Catch for Us the Foxes
A revolt against the homilies by which this world is run, a wilting carnation memorializing a dream of abundance and belonging.
7 min read
Jul
27
OlliOlli World is a gnarly tombstone worth returning to
My earliest video games obsessions split the difference between two genres: platformers and action sports games. Sonic the Hedgehog on
7 min read
Jul
26
25 Good Things - An Introduction
23 weeks left of the first quarter-century in this new millennium.
Mixed feelings, as per usual with me.
For one,
2 min read