Saturday Morning Gaming: Digging In The Back Catalog
Going back and digging out games that I had intended to beat, but never, did with Hand of Fate and Ruiner
Category: Mindless Diversions
Weekend Plans Post: The Home Stretch?
I’ve started letting myself daydream about what I’m going to do once all this is over.
Sunday Morning! “Sodom and Gomorrah” by Marcel Proust (pt. 2)
Proust is showing us the world that was in terminal decline by the first world war and asking the important question: What did we lose?
Saturday Spins: Soundtracks Vol 1, 2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey is known for is the use of the music in scenes instead of dialog. Kubrick let the music accompany the imagery.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Bloodlines 2 has been delayed. Again. Indefinitely, this time.
Content warning, I guess. Blood. A lot of it. I’d say something about this being a good sign but… well, I said that about Cyberpunk 2077’s delay last year too.
Weekend Plans Post: The Windfall (Theoretical)
We’ve done the “what would you do with the big Powerball win” threads before (and they’re fun) but let’s be more realistic.
What’s the smallest amount you could win that would let you retire right now?
Sunday Morning! Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust (pt.1)
Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust: In which the love that dare not speak its name finally speaks- at great length.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Troubleshooter
Troubleshooter is for people who loved XCom 2. There. I mean, I don’t want to call it a *CLONE* but if someone did I wouldn’t argue.
Saturday Spins: ZZ Top’s Tres Hombres
ZZ Top’s Tres Hombres is not only famous for the excellent jams…it also has an all-time hunger inducing gatefold spread
Lent!
this is when we listen to a lovely rendition of Ave Maria and, in recent years, discuss what we’re giving up for Lent.
Sunday Morning! “The Guermantes Way” by Marcel Proust (pt. 2)
We’re halfway through Marcel Proust’s epic The Guermantes Way and Death makes an appearance or two to complicate matters.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Surprised by a Delightful Game
A puzzle game from out of nowhere that absolutely DELIGHTED me.
You need to play The Pedestrian.
Saturday Spins: Kiss’ Destroyer
Last week we all took a psychedelic journey back to the Summer of Love. Folks, this week’s LP is ready to rock your socks right off, though. I went to the Discogs randomizer to...
Sunday Morning! The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust: On worshipping and serving others in the social world of Volume 3 of “In Search of Lost Time”
Sunday Spins: Jefferson Airplane Surrealistic Pillow
Filled with psychedelic journeys and straight rockers, Jefferson Airplane Surrealistic Pillow really is a generational masterpiece.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Replaying the Portals
Portal and Portal 2 remain triumphs. It had an exceptionally interesting conceit, it had really interesting puzzles, and it was funny as heck.
Weekend Plans Post: Living in a Haunted House
And now I’m wondering if there’s something going on in the back of my head due to the pandemic, if this is something that people do, like, before they die or something
Sunday Morning! Finishing ‘In Search of Lost Time’ Vol. 2. by: Marcel Proust
As we finish Marcel Proust’s “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower” our hero heads to the beach and meets an artist, a marquis, and a band of young girls who will alter the course of his life and imagination, whether or not he ever really knows them.
