Sunday Morning! “The Razor’s Edge” by Somerset Maugham
Maugham’s story “The Razor’s Edge” is about a WWI pilot who heads East seeking spiritual peace resonates even with those of us who haven’t gone very far on the path to sainthood.
Category: Mindless Diversions
Weekend Plans Post: Beginning the Silly Part of the Season
Tempo at work begins to slow, time to start thinking about Christmas shopping.
Unless…
Saturday Morning Gaming: A year of Cyberpunk (plus some VR!)
The mod community has done more than CD Projekt.
Weekend Plans Post: The Chauffeur’s Domino Mask
Noticing something, remembering something, researching something.
Saturday Morning Gaming: The Steam Sale Is On!
They don’t make them like they used to. Now they’re on sale! The Steam sale is here, and some old favorites are back for pennies
Sunday Morning! Traveling with Laurence Sterne and Michel Houellebecq
Two visions of pleasure travel from Laurence Sterne and Michel Houellebecq 230 years apart, offer two very different ideas of being-in-the-word.
Weekend Plans Post: Extrovert Overload
After a couple of years of quarantine, it’s good to see friends again.
Sunday Morning! Dean Stockwell in “Blue Velvet”
It’s a cameo role as memorable as Brando’s is “Apocalypse Now.” It’s also the exact point at which Lynch’s masterpiece seems closest to tipping over into genuine madness.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Roll for the Galaxy
The good news is that Roll for the Galaxy is one of the games that has successfully transitioned from the tabletop to the desktop
Weekend Plans Post: The Most Important Video You Will See This Year
Well, seeing this video, I now realize that, perhaps, I have been eating my wings incorrectly for my entire life
Sunday Morning! “In the Shadow of Forward Motion” by David Wojnarowicz
On a recent trip to New York City, a David Wojnarowicz booklet from 1989, and the artist as explosive device.
Saturday Morning Gaming: The Gloomhaven Stream
Jaybird attempted a stream, of sorts, of the first couple of rooms in the first Gloomhaven dungeon.
Weekend Plans Post: Getting My Hour Back
The first Sunday in November. That’s the official end of Daylight Saving Time, as of 2007. And, this weekend, we get our hour back. Finally.
Sunday Halloween Morning! Seconds (1966)
Seconds is an existential horror movie scarier than any B-movie slasher- they can only kill you once; this film suggests you can be killed so surely long before that physical death is only an afterthought.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Gloomhaven (Steam Edition)
If you played Gloomhaven for a half-dozen sessions before the pandemic shut you down and you’ve been thinking about this game non-stop ever since? JEEZ LOUISE PICK THIS GAME UP RIGHT NOW.
Weekend Plans Post: The Last Piggybank
When friends in my circle started having kids, I thought that a great present would be a piggybank. That was a long time ago.
Sunday Morning! “Jacket Weather” by Mike DeCapite
“Jacket Weather” by Mike DeCapite is an elegiac meditation on love and aging in New York with two lovers who could talk all night.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Diablo II’s shortcomings (and some defenses of them)
Some of Diablo II’s problems involve the fact that it’s a 2021 graphical update of a game made in the year 2000 and some of them are limitations that you see in games in the current year.
Weekend Plans Post: The Smearing of Autumn
The Smearing of Autumn: The transition from “okay, Summer is over” to “okay, Fall is actually here”
