Dispatches from a Purple City
Using a trip to Atlanta as a reminder to be mindful of how much we know about people and places is just made up
Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Balldroppin’
Two tangentially-related tunes to guide you through a time when your calendar is going through strange and confusing changes
My Hopes for the Steam Frame
Speculation about the near-future of accessible, approachable VR, which Valve’s new headset will totally make happen, for real this time.
Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Ewell, Log
Two more tunes not at all about Christmas, but about discovering new music through the magic of tortured puns
My Favorite Movies of 2025
Looking back on an unusually good year for movies
Game Night, or, Settlers of Catan
An amazing cast and confident direction let this movie work best when it settles into being a screwball action comedy
Are AI Evangelists In Heat?
What Hollywood legends in estrus can teach us about the ludicrous claims about generative AI being democratizing
Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Ah Ouais, Manger
Deux tunes just barely tangentially related to a Joyeux Noël
Tuesday Tune Two-Fer, Monday Special Edition: Dre, Del, Made It, Out of Clay
A selection of songs not even a little bit about Hanukkah that’ll get you about halfway through the holiday
One Thing I Like About Dust Bunny
Dust Bunny is undeniably a movie with a distinct creative vision, I’m just still deciding whether I like that vision
One Thing I Like About Zootopia 2
The sequel continues the precedent set by the original of being more clever and insightful than these movies need to be
Tuesday Tune Two-Fer: Lil, Drummer Boy
I have no gifts to bring, apart from these two tunes that are not even a little bit about Christmas