Manuports!
Stumbling across something cool is something that goes back millions of years. It’s awesome that this is not hyperbole. The Makapansgat pebble is a jasperite rock. It looks like it has a face on it. They found this in a… Continue Reading
Month: July 2011
Wednesday!
(I admit. I almost called this essay “Darwin!” and then I remembered that, no, it’s Wednesday.) I love remix culture, sometimes. The idea of taking a long-finished, long-forgotten piece of art and tweaking it, bending it, folding it, and spindling… Continue Reading
Rhizome!
Every now and again, we are lucky enough to find something that we watch or read or play and it fits. It fits like that shirt. You know the shirt I’m talking about. That one. This show or book or… Continue Reading
Independence!
A weekend full of friends and family has left me without a proper Monday essay. So I’ll do a bit of a Wednesday thing here and try to write a more essayish Wednesday post (though it will still be music… Continue Reading
Sunday!
So… what are you reading and/or watching? Ghost Story comes out this month (finally). We were supposed to have it in April. Jim Butcher is no George R R Martin, I tell you what. Edit: Costco had Sucker Punch for… Continue Reading
Saturday!
So… what are you playing? I’m in the vice cases of LA Noire and getting ready for my D&D session tonight. I am deliberately avoiding watching the 10 minute gameplay videos of Arkham City but they are out there to… Continue Reading
Trine!
It’s the evening before the first day of a three day weekend!!! If your week has been like mine, you’ll know why I used three exclamation points to finish that sentence instead of just one. Golly, it was crazy, wasn’t… Continue Reading
Murtaugh!
For the first time in my life, I was playing a video game and thought “I can’t believe they put that in here… kids are going to be playing this”. That game was Duke Nukem Forever. GTA3 didn’t make me… Continue Reading