Saturday Morning Gaming: Gaming Frugally 2
There are new free games for you to tinker with as you wait for this interminable lockdown to end.
Category: Mindless Diversions
Weekend Plans Post: On Slightly Delayed Spring Cleaning
Spring Cleaning…but in the fall. So you’ve gotten rid of the stuff that does not spark joy. Now what?
Sunday Morning! “First Person Singular” by Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami returns with “First Person Singular”: eight short stories that read like memories that might have been dreamed or imagined. In the end, it’s all the same.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Loot Running In Diablo II Resurrected
Anyway, I’ve gotta get back to Diablo II Resurrected. I need to be able to start doing Nightmare Mephisto runs.
Weekend Plans Post: On the Clothes that Spark Joy
It’s time to go through the closets again and we have said “SERIOUSLY, WE ARE GOING TO DO A CULL” and that is the plan for this weekend.
Sunday Morning: “Solstice” by Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates is a great novelist and I admire in her 1986 novel, but alas, it was an attraction that never turned into love.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Paradox Interactive Admits It
The first step is admitting you have a problem. Paradox Interactive went back to a save point, I guess.
Weekend Plans Post: On Sleeping (Specifically, On Melatonin)
When I was a teenager, I could easily sleep for 10 hours.
That was a long time ago.
Heavenly! (Mystery Symphony)
This week, we examine another work that sounds even more like late Mozart. “Sounds like late Mozart” is high praise. For anyone.
Sunday Morning! “808s & Otherworlds” by Sean Avery Medlin
Sean Avery Medlin sings, and dreams, and recreates, and dances themself in 808s and Otherworlds, a book of “Memories, Remixes, and Mythologies” released this week by Two-Dollar Radio
Saturday Morning Gaming: Diablo II Resurrected (for real this time)
Diablo II, for real this time. It’s out, It’s awesome… but the servers are slammed.
Weekend Plans Post: How to Make a Truly Decadent Chicken Caesar Salad
Seriously, you’d pay $19 for this Chicken Caesar Salad at a fancy schmancy restaurant and not feel ripped off after you sopped up the last of the dressing with your roll.
Sunday Morning! “Ethan Frome” by Edith Wharton
Wharton’s American Gothic at least makes the case that hell is a lot colder than we’d imagined. Her character, Ethan Frome isn’t so lucky.
Saturday Morning Gaming: The Dark Dice of Tharsis (and Yahtzee theory)
Tharsis is a horror-themed game set in outer space that combines everything you love from Darkest Dungeon and Yahtzee. With cannibalism.
Weekend Plans Post: Kingdom Come
Kingdom Come came and went and there were a bunch of bands that did their best to sound like Led Zep. Hey, it’s not like Zeppelin is putting out any new albums.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Board Games to Look Forward to
One of the great joys in life is opening a new board game and playing something that you’ve never played before
Weekend Plans Post: The Study Group
“I appreciate you being candid with me, Jaybird. Go talk to the Big Manager Guy…” And so now I have been put in charge of The Study Group.
Sunday Morning! The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy’s great short story “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” is really about how we avoid thoughts of death, and in doing so, sidestep our lives all together.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Control
Imagine a video game where your task is to go through the basement under the antique shop or Warehouse 13 itself. That’s Control.
Weekend Plans: The Trip To In-N-Out Burger
Since then, I’ve learned that I went to In-N-Out incorrectly. I ordered off of the menu, you see. “You have to order off of the *SECRET* menu!”, I have since been informed
