My Favorite Games: BattleZone (1998)
A reinvention of one of the first first-person games, made in the age of real-time strategy, is the perfect example of 1990s game development optimism
Host, or, Telepresence
A short appreciation for a short and solid quarantine lockdown horror movie
The Old Dark House, or, Who Let the Saul Out?
An absolutely bonkers collaboration between James Whale and Boris Karloff, but not that one
Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Is It Worth It?
Two tunes tangentially related to the pointless discourse around generative AI
The Babadook, or, It’s Nice to Have a Man About the House
Continuing early Spooktober with an excellent movie that I hated watching
What Lies Beneath, or, People Who Live in Glass Houses Shouldn’t Do Rear Window
Soft-launching Spooktober 2026 with a Dreamworks version of Hitchcock that everybody’s already seen (no spoilers anyway)
Bad Vibes Coding
Taking a short break from being spitting mad about AI, to just being sad about how it never needed to be like this
The Steam Machine: Now You’re Playing With… Convenience
Early impressions of the unremarkable, “underpowered” living room PC that changes everything
Phantasm II, or, BOY, Interrupted
The sequel doesn’t have nearly the nonsensical charm of the original, but it seems like they had fun making it
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, or, Smoky Mountains and the Bandit
or, Nothin’ Homo Goin’ On. I’ve spent all these years completely wrong about a heavily-advertised musical from my youth
One Thing I Liked a Lot About Buddy
Buddy is 100% a “children’s show horror movie by the guy who made ‘Too Many Cooks’,” and I have to respect a movie that so relentlessly keeps “yes, and”ing itself. (spoilers)
Dolly Parton and Aspects of the Divine
A memorial from a recent convert who wants to make the case that all of the praise of Dolly Parton doesn’t go far enough