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
Santa in Space
Experimenting with Nomad Sculpt for Christmas 2023
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
Meet Puppets
A quick tourism PSA for the best attraction in Atlanta, the Center for Puppetry Arts
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