• Inside Out

    Inside Out reminds us that we can’t be happy all of the time, an idea that angered, disgusted and frightened me.

  • Splatoon for Graybeards

    Are you old like me? You might still enjoy Nintendo’s Splatoon.

  • Camp Grizzly

    Camp Grizzly finally hits the sweet spot between cooperative games and storytelling games

  • Everyone Has Their Shows

    Trying to resist my natural impulse to overthink Mad Max: Fury Road

  • One Month With the Apple Watch (Order Status Page Edition)

    My experiences with the latest advance from Apple that’s disrupting the ecosystems of wearable technology and order and personal fulfillment.

  • Dogpile on that thing you like

    Piggy-backing on a blog post to explain all the various reasons I dislike the game Cards Against Humanity

  • Avengers: Age of Um, Not So Much

    Avengers: Age of Ultron does strain under the weight of years of TV shows and movies. Not Marvel’s, though.

  • The Tone Without Fear

    A lifelong DC fan tries to make sense of the new Netflix Daredevil series

  • They Alive, Dammit. It’s a Miracle!

    I’ve never seen anything combine satire and celebration as brilliantly as Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

  • Firewatch

    A biased but honest bit of gushing about the five minutes I’ve seen of Campo Santo’s game Firewatch.

  • Red Room Resolutions

    How the Twin Peaks dream sequence brought about an unexpected but inspiring crisis of confidence.

  • That Gum I Liked Has Gone Out of Style

    A new appreciation of Twin Peaks spins totally out of control into an analysis of The X-Files, my long-standing hatred of the 1990s, and the unsettling realization that the series actually makes sense to me now.