Weekend Plans Post: Thinkin’ ’bout Numbers
A fun and funny problem solved involving things lost in translation
A fun and funny problem solved involving things lost in translation
When does an artist lose his touch? Is it when he exhausts his creative impulses, or is it when those around him stop telling him “no,” and hubris consumes his output?
The year in film is indeed weak, and the campaign for the biggest prize in the industry is indeed wide-open as we enter mid-October.
If you liked Elden Ring and wish it were more like God of War? Get this game. Get this game *NOW*.
That’s it. I just wanted to say “I don’t like change” so it had a double meaning. It’s not even a joke, really.
So, Sunday is the sister’s, Saturday is D&D, and Friday night is going to be Silent Hill 2.
There is nothing I know that gives a person this kind or amount of creative control over sound so intuitively.
There’s a conspiracy theory making the rounds that goes thusly: The Biden Administration has, at best, slow walked the recovery efforts to Hurricane Helene’s swath of destruction or, at worst, actively obstructed those efforts...
Winthrop Mackworth Praed, a respected wit and politician who died young, tuberculosis at thirty-six. There’s still a Praed Society at Eton
As a kid I loved baseball and Pete Rose. I still love baseball, but evidence demands a verdict, and I long ago had a reckoning over Pete Rose.
Remember Vampire Survivors? This is like that… EXCEPT YOU CAN AIM!
I like Tillinghast’s phrase: “major minor poet.” Ransom’s precise word choice and easy formalism are things of wonder.
There are stories in Hesiod that talk about the type of grapes that make Commandaria and so this type of wine dates back at least to 800 B.C.
I just had my least favorite gaming experience in Assassin’s Creed III.
I’ve had a great deal of trouble since reading that line considering anything she wrote to be genuine. That’s a frustration.
The 97th Oscars Best Picture race might arguably be even more competitive than the ongoing presidential campaign.
I keep discovering new things and new trophies that, for some reason, I didn’t get back in 2012 and 2013