Saturday Morning Gaming: Racing Around a Board Game
Formula D is a quick game for two through *TEN* players…and, most importantly, it’s a lot of fun and can handle seven players
Category: Mindless Diversions
Weekend Plans Post: The For Real Long Weekend
Walking through the first of the Three Gates of Summer this weekend.
Fun With Perspective In Illustration
Things like this perspective in illustration start as interesting, then make my head hurt, then make me angry.
Sunday Morning! The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright
Richard Wright’s “lost” 1942 novel of guilt, exile, and spiritual initiation has been fortuitously pulled up from the memory hole. It’s no less urgent today.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Yaga
The Baba Yaga stories were particularly striking because of how weird they were. Well, the video game Yaga takes place in the Yagaverse.
Weekend Plans Post: Sitting in a basement on a Saturday night. But different.
The quarantine was rough on the gaming group. It’s the first gaming group since… January of last year? February of last year?
Saturday Morning Gaming: Infohazards
I almost didn’t want to write this because it’s about a game that manages to be addicting without being fun.
Weekend Plans Post: Not Dreaming, Right?
It seems weird to be tentative about easing back into public life after a trip to Disney, of all places…but it still feels a little weird
Sunday Morning! “La Strada” by Federico Fellini
Fellini’s heartbreaking archetypal story of how, in life, Experience comes to kick the snot out of Innocence.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Ape Out
Ape Out: The chaotic joy of breaking out and running as far as you can. Content Warning: Surprisingly graphic violence for such a minimalist art style
Saturday Spins: Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan!
Expanding into a more pop-rock sound, Aaron Lee Tasjan has endlessly catchy songs in the vein of Tom Petty, ELO, and The Traveling Wilburys.
Weekend Plans Post: The Light At The End Of The Tunnel Might Not Have Been A Train
Recovering from Disneyworld. And that’s why, this weekend will be just spent doing low-key stuff. Maybe some grocery shopping in person.
Sunday Morning! Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock
In Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece the sense of vertigo is inspired by the infinite space between Self and Other.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Horror Games and Little Nightmares
I thought about some of the best horror games I’ve played. How horror video games get under your skin and Little Nightmares.
Weekend Plans Post: Disneyland
Drinking from the firehose after more than a year of a capful here or there. We’re going to Disneyworld!!!
Saturday Spins: Soundtracks Vol 2 O Brother, Where Art Thou
If we are talkin’ Coen Brothers soundtracks, O Brother, Where Art Thou is second only to The Big Lebowski.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Children of Morta
If played Hades until you couldn’t play it anymore…but then pined, wishing you could play a game a lot like Hades?
Then get Children of Morta.
Weekend Plans Post: Post-Vaccination Normalcy?
Take it easy, take it slow. Give the shot just a little more time to kick in. There will be time for post-vaccination shenanigans soon enough.
Sunday Morning! Persona by Ingmar Bergman
Persona by Ingmar Bergman places two women in a cottage to find out what happens when we stop playing our roles and start becoming each other.
Sunday Spins Part 2: Sturgill Simpson’s Cuttin’ Grass Vol 2
Sturgill Simpson’s Cuttin’ Grass Vol 2 is not a double-LP like Vol 1, and it has been pared down in scope, but it still slaps.
