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Things That Happened At GDC (Random Shuffle)
So these things happened at GDC…- Michelle Clough gave the blow-the-doors-off breakout talk of the Narrative Summit, and acquired the nickname “Atomic Ovaries” in the process. Go check out her talk on the Vault. I’ll wait. And you’ll understand.
- I may have offered a sip from my flask to the honorable Mayor of Baton Rouge, LA.
- Alexander Bevier did a ( Read more... )
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Concert Thoughts: Drive-By Truckers
When I went to see Drive-By Truckers’ guitarist Mike Cooley’s solo show in Chapel Hill last year, the audience was a problem. Which is to say they were in large part less of an audience and more of a bunch of people standing around expecting Cooley to provide background music to their conversations, to the point where the man had to tell people to ( Read more... ) -
Book Reviews For All and Sundry
One of my long-running side gigs has been as a book reviewer at Green Man Review and its sister magazine, Sleeping Hedgehog. (I’m not quite sure what the family tree that produces a Green Man and a hedgehog actually looks like, but I don’t judge).
In any case, the reviewing engine has revved back up after a bit of a fallow period, with a multi- ( Read more... ) -
Help My Favorite Data Scientist Out
Want to help out my favorite data scientist? Want to be entered to win Valuable Prizes (TM)? Then take a minute to fill out a short survey on book-buying habits. (Seriously. It's short. Like, "two pages long and that's it" short). -
Film Thoughts: Margin Call
The most interesting thing to me about Margin Call is that it’s shot like a horror movie. Look at the visual palette and it’s all icy blues and whites. Sunlight is harsh and alien; what these people do they do in the dark, lit only by the artificial light of their monitors and overhead fluorescents ( Read more... ) -
A Tale of Two Fairy Tales
Friday night, my wife and I went to see a double feature at the Carolina Theater of Legend and Labyrinth. One of these two has aged well. One of them hasn’t.
Legend, directed by Ridley Scott, is by far the better made film. It’s gorgeous, full of striking tableaus and artfully composed shots. And it’s awful. The script, by William Hjortsberg, is a ( Read more... ) -
A Shockingly Short Interview With Lucien Soulban
Lucien Soulban is one of my oldest and dearest friends in the industry. We go back a long, long way - he wrote the item descriptions for the Wraith 2nd Storyteller Screen for me, and despite the edits I gave him, he’s still speaking to me ( Read more... ) -
10 Things You Learn From A Case Of Norovirus
1-True Detective makes way, waaaaay more sense when you’ve got a spiking fever and the cats are leaving vapor trails as they zip around the room.
2-The couch has not yet been made that is big enough for two people with simultaneous cases of norovirus. Best case scenario is that you sit at opposite ends and make feeble slapping motions at one another ( Read more... ) -
A Modest Thought
"I do X and it worked out for me" is a reasonable position to take.
"I do X, it worked out for me and you could benefit from trying it" is also a reasonable position to take.
"I do X and you are a horrible human being worthy only of contempt if you don’t do X, too" is not a reasonable position.
"I do X and anyone who has a reasonable argument for why ( Read more... ) -
On Driving In Snow...
Important safety tip for my fellow Triangle drivers: cutting your wheel and gunning it is the wrong thing to do. Always. Cutting your wheel, gunning it, feeling yourself skid and then correcting by cutting your wheel hard the other way and gunning it again is also the wrong thing to do. Continuing to do this multiple times is several wrong things ( Read more... )