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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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,
July 20: It’s not a machine, after all
Maybe you missed those weekly recs, maybe you never gave it a second thought. Maybe you’ve been lost in the Feed for so long that you’ve gotten used to the idea of people fading in and out of your scroll that absences mean almost nothing to you anymore.
