Saturday Morning Gaming: Darkest Dungeon
Darkest Dungeon is a dungeon diving RPG that has an interesting twist. This is a game that has a different idea about “difficulty” than most.
Category: Mindless Diversions
Christmas Spin: Keith Richards, Chuck Berry, and Run Rudolph Run
Ho Ho Ho! A special Christmas spin of a song popularized by the father of rock-n-roll and covered by many many others.
Weekend Plans Post: ‘Twas the night before Christmas
Silver linings in a year without a whole lotta tinsel
Sunday Morning! “The Bells of Christmas” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It’s hard to imagine a poet having more professional success and personal tragedy than Longfellow, and yet he wrote this steadfast call to hope during one of the nation’s most miserable of Christmases.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Cyberpunk 2077 Reviewed
Hoo boy. There’s probably an interesting article to be written about investors demanding a game be released, even in an unplayable state.
Saturday Spins: John Prine’s Common Sense
It’s unfortunate that we lost John Prine this year. He is up there on my singer-songwriter Mt. Rushmore with Dylan, Petty, et. al.
Weekend Plans Post: Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in
You don’t choose the suit.
The suit chooses you.
Sunday Morning! “Lovecraft Country”
Like the recent HBO series, I consumed “Lovecraft Country” ravenously, like I was a dripping protoplasmic monster too terrible to behold.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Cyberpunk 2077 First Impressions
Okay. I’ve played Cyberpunk 2077. I have some thoughts. Many of them are positive. Not all of them are positive.
Saturday Spins: Leon Bridges Good Thing
Leon Bridges occupies a space or two because I dig his particular brand of soul. It’s not too poppy, and it isn’t too experimental to seem like it’s a parody.
Weekend Plans Post: It’s Out
Finally, a weekend where it’s not going to be *THAT* tough to not want to do anything in the outside world.
Sunday Morning! “White Tears” & “Red Pill” by Hari Kunzru
This week I read two novels by Hari Kunzru, a modern magician of storytelling, though the tricks worked better in one of them for my tastes.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Something To Get You To Thursday (Fallout 3 vs. New Vegas)
A comparison between Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas gives one of the best examples of Doing It Right versus Missing The Mark.
Saturday Spins: Son Volt’s Notes of Blue
You know when you’re dealing with the blues, you’re gonna have to eventually deal with the devil.
Weekend Plans Post: The Last Normal Weekend For A While
Which makes this weekend the last one before Cyberpunk 2077 comes out and the last one before the week before the silly season.
Sunday Morning! “If Beale Street Could Talk” and “Riot Baby”
This week, If Beale Street Could Talk and Riot Baby, two stories, 46 years apart, about young Black men imprisoned, a disturbingly perennial theme
Saturday Morning Gaming: The Steam and GoG Black Friday Sales!
This weekend is the Black Friday sale at Steam and GoG.com and it’s a great opportunity to get the stuff that you miss from your youth (or just stuff that flew under your radar from a few years back) for a deep discount.
The Tenth Annual Mindless Diversions Unsolicited Shopping Guide
A decade of unsolicited gift recommendations!
Thanksgiving Spin: The Last Waltz
Celebrating Thanksgiving with one of the world’s greatest vanity projects ever, The Band’s The Last Waltz
