Dad, who gamed
John Walker, games writer for Rock Paper Shotgun, eulogizes his father Hugh and reflects on a life spent playing and talking about games together.
View ArticleMy Bookshelf, Myself - NYT
Leaders in different fields share the 10 books they'd take with them if they were marooned on a desert island. For his bookshop installation, One Grand, the editor Aaron Hicklin asked people to name...
View ArticleCome For The Outrage, Stay For The Sloths
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver. In case anyone missed this, a surprisingly good, yet humorous description of the types of hurdles women must go through to obtain an abortion in the US (with bonus...
View ArticleSuper Tuesday: it's going to be huge
The March 1st round of voting in US primaries and caucuses is today. Since 1988, no candidate has won his party's nomination without winning Super Tuesday. With early voting and absentee voting...
View Article"Stimpy! ACTIVATE THE PLOT DEVICE!"
It's always a great time to look back at the joy and wonder that was (is) Ren & Stimpy! The madness! The pain! The tangents! Still respected and celebrated as one of the most influential shows of...
View ArticleIt's still only April: the US election drags ever onwards
As we enter the last 30 weeks of the election campaign, delegate talk becomes more prevalent. On the Republican side, current Donald (future Donald) did not have a good Saturday in Colorado and South...
View ArticleNew Year's Avant Day
What do Laurie Anderson, Yves Montand, George Plimpton, John Cage, fireworks, Peter Gabriel, Merce Cunningham, Allen Ginsberg, Joseph Beuys, Philip Glass, Oingo Boingo, and Nam June Paik have in...
View ArticleFellow prisoners...
In Times of Crisis, find solace and inspiration in the lucid voices of cultural critic John Berger (recently departed) and leading intellectual Noam Chomsky. Part of a lecture series brought to you by...
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Harvard Student Group Performs A Cappella Tribute to John Williams During Commencement Ceremony
View ArticleFreddy didn't kill the kids on Elm Street, the Manson Family did
Cult actor John Saxon is perhaps best-known for his role as Donald Thompson in the first and third Nightmare on Elm Street films. But in 1987, Saxon also tried his hand as a screenwriter with a...
View ArticleWhat Brown has done for me...
The Last Mile ---UPS Manny making a delivery. "The last mile" is used to describe the most inefficient and costly portion of any delivery service....getting that package to the door. From the West...
View ArticleThe Tripods
The Tripods was a dystopian Sci-Fi series written in 1967 which served as a template for many of the YA novels out today. Picked up by the BBC in the 1980s, a TV series was released and then brought to...
View ArticleDo Not Proceed in Makng My Cardiac Pump Nonfunctional
Don't Go Breakin' My Heart, sung between Elton John and Kiki Dee. Or RuPaul. Or Minnie Mouse. Or Miss Piggy, introduced by Sam the Eagle. Or Ed Sheeran. Or Alan Partridge. Or the Spice Girls. Or with...
View ArticleToilets With Threatening Auras
@scarytoilet (SL Twitter) Alternate Facebook link for those so inclined.
View Articlethose grey-white gas meter boxes on the outsides of terraced housing
"So playing this, every single time I see something undeniably British, which is approximately every 1.6 seconds in Horizon 4, I double-double-take." John Walker over at Rock Paper Shotgun writes about...
View ArticleOther People Being John Malkovich
The Chicago photographer Sandro, using John Malkovich as a medium, reinvents photography.
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