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Movin' Out
As I did with Dante's blog, I'm moving this blog to Wordpress. The feeling of impending doom at LiveJournal is getting hard to shake. In particular, the exporter I've always used to back up my stuff is no longer working, and when I search for other LJ-oriented developments, all I get back is a whole lotta crickets.
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The Black And White Panther
[NOTE: This post contains spoilers for the Watchmen graphic novel, and I'm assuming readers are familiar with its plot and characters.]
Remember a few years ago, when I said that I wanted to reread Watchmen, but this time with the Annotated Watchmen alongside? Well, the time has come at last. As expected, it's producing a much more satisfying ( Read more... ) -
Searching For Sugar Man
One of my favorite books as a teen, and a huge influence on me during that time, was a novel called The Armageddon Rag, by the then-little-known George R.R. Martin. The book is about... well, it's about many things, including loss of innocence, the metaphorical end of the Sixties, the rewards and regrets inherent in revisiting the past, and the ( Read more... ) -
IF-Review: Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis
Final entry in the 2012 XYZZY best games review project -- Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis. With tremendous innovation, technical polish, and abundant humor, Adam Thornton upends the medium of interactive fiction with a work that's simultaneously traditionalist and transgressive, a layered and richly allusive delivery system for some highly ( Read more... ) -
The Avengers
[We interrupt our regularly scheduled IF reviews for this topical superhero discussion. That review of Mentula Macanus is coming soon-- er, on its way.]
I've been reading a lot of 1960s Marvel comics lately, letter columns and all. I did this once before, with just Spider-Man comics, which was a lot of fun. This time I'm skipping around more from ( Read more... ) -
IF-Review: Cryptozookeeper
Here's another entry in the series of 2012 XYZZY nominees game reviews: Robb Sherwin's Cryptozookeeper. It's the most Sherwin-esque Sherwin game I've yet seen. It's gonzo, it's funny, it's extreme, and it's shambolic, and it's all these things to the most highly refined degree I've ever seen Robb accomplish, which means it's all these things to the ( Read more... ) -
IF-Review: Six
IF-Review has published the second in my series reviewing all the Best Game XYZZY nominees of 2012. The game this time is Wade Clarke's Six. I don't think I've ever been so charmed by an IF game. -
IF-Review: Zombie Exodus
It's been a long, long time since I reviewed a text game, so I'm embarking on a mini-project of reviewing all four games nominated for the 2011 Best Game XYZZY award. First up: Zombie Exodus. My review is up now at IF-Review. Thanks to Mark Musante for publishing it. -
Geek Bowl VI question recap
At Geek Bowl V last year, my team The Anti-Social Network ended up winning all the marbles, except the marbles were actually considerable sums of cash. Hooray! This year, the event moved from Denver to Austin, Texas, and we didn't fare quite so well, coming in 10th out of 146 teams. Still a respectable showing! But not enough to get paid, as only ( Read more... ) -
Ice Slowly Melting
A couple of years ago, I wrote about my annual Christmas traditions with my friends Siân and Kelly, a mix CD of songs I've been listening to that year. The songs generally reflect a little something about my life in one way or another, though not perfectly so -- sometimes they're just songs I've imprinted on for some reason. The liner notes ( Read more... )