Author: Chuck
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
Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Eight Nights
Two tangentially-related tunes celebrating a vague idea of another culture’s holiday
Super Mario Bros Wonder: The Conversation
Super Mario Bros Wonder is relentlessly delightful and in constant conversation with the player
Literacy 2023: Book 15: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The first Hercule Poirot mystery is essentially a template for everything we expect from an Agatha Christie murder mystery
Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: It Was a Very Good Year
Two tangentially-related tunes that came out when I was 21
Peace & Love
In honor of Shane MacGowan’s passing, some thoughts about what a huge impact the Pogues had on me
Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Move Fast and Break Down
Two tangentially-related tunes to listen to while waiting for Silicon Valley to collapse
