Saturday Morning Gaming: Returning to Old Games and Rediscovering Who You Used to Be
I keep discovering new things and new trophies that, for some reason, I didn’t get back in 2012 and 2013
Category: Culture
Anatomy of a Conspiracy Theory
The facts are that there are Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, but there is no evidence that they are eating pets.
POETS Day! The Other Side of James Hogg
Wordsworth wrote that Hogg “was undoubtedly a man of original genius, but of coarse manners and low and offensive opinions.
Weekend Plans Post: Brisk. Finally.
One of my friends moved out from Denver to Florida a couple of months ago and he wrote everybody saying that he saw more rain in two hours than he saw in any given month in Colorado and more rain during the week than we got all summer.
The Minecraft Trailer Needs to be Fed To a Creeper
I have watched the Minecraft trailer a few times now and I’m still not convinced this isn’t a dream after eating a moldy burrito.
The Month in Theaters August 2024
In the month of August, I managed to see fifteen movies in theaters, with one repeat, as well as fifteen movies otherwise, for a total of twenty-nine reviews.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Football Manager 2024 is this week’s Epic Game Store’s Free Game
Knowing nothing at all about soccer, I’ll instead talk about IGN’s 2009 review of Worldwide Soccer Manager 2009
POETS Day! Thoughts on Part IV of TS Eliot’s “Burnt Norton”
It’s not a comfortable position for me because it’s rare to be right in opposition to learned consideration.
Weekend Plans Post: Greek Couscous Salad
It’s good with lamb, it’s good with chicken, it’s good just eating it from the container. AND IT’S SO FREAKIN’ EASY.
From The Minnesota Star Tribune: Tim Walz, governor and gamer, once owned a Sega Dreamcast. Here’s what happened to it.
Inside the disc drive, Johnson found the Dreamcast’s signature game, “Crazy Taxi.”
College Football, and I Didn’t Know You Could Do That With The Game Clock
Lines Written a Few Feet Away from My Television As and After I Flipped Through College Football Games, My Alabama Bias Is Part of the Mix
Saturday Morning Gaming: Yahtzee but, like, a roguelike deckbuilder
A single-player yahtzee game that, seriously, mixes it up.
Weekend Plans Post: The MRI
Well, the only thing floating around my head is a short story about a zombie apocalypse hitting while some guy is in an MRI machine.
Mindless Diversions Extra: The Audience That Wasn’t There
Some back of the envelope math shows that, assuming $50 Million, the Concord game cost more than seventy grand per peak time player.
Complicated Starbucks Orders Is A Language I Don’t Speak None To Good
I dutifully have memorized the 14-word instruction to get my daughters favorite Starbuck drink juuust right
Saturday Morning Gaming: Fallout :London
A (Free!) fan mod that is being favorably compared to New Vegas
POETS Day! Anthony Hecht
When Anthony Hecht’s unit liberated Flossenbürg concentration camp, he was ordered to collect stories and information. It would haunt him for the rest of his life.
Weekend Plans Post: The New Grocery Store
Remember Wild Oats? Way back when, back in the oughts, Colorado Springs didn’t have a Whole Foods store. We had a Wild Oats, though.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Deeper into Assassin’s Creed 2
Surprised to find that Assassin’s Creed 2 and its immediate sequels hold up.
POETS Day! Useful Lines and a Favorite from Pound
There was a time when the falconer was the height of killing technology. We had projectiles, but they required attention and aiming.
