Month: December 2023
Literacy 2023: Recap
Another year of failing to hit my target number, but being pretty happy about it nonetheless
Literacy 2023: Book 18: Shadow of the Sith
An interim Star Wars story in which Luke and Lando try to protect Rey’s family from a sinister Sith plot.



One Thing I Love About Wonka
My favorite thing about Wonka is how it effectively chooses songs from the original, and then goes off to do its own thing

Literacy 2023: Book 17: The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman’s cozy crime story about a group of residents of a retirement community solving a “real” murder

Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Overkill
Two tangentially-related tunes on the theme of going harder than necessary
Literacy 2023: Book 16: The Theory of Everything Else
Dan Schreiber’s collection of fringe science, pseudoscience, and other crackpot ideas


Half-Life: Alyx is not an immersive life sim
How the Half-Life series has all the ingredients of a perfect VR game and then subverts most of them







