February 2012
12 posts
My month with Johann Sebastian Joust
Johann Sebastian Joust is one of the most exciting games I’ve ever played.
You should read about why on Vox Games, which is where I wrote about it.
Unbest: Evan Minsker on The Gap Band’s Gap Band IV... →
unbest:
Evan Minsker on The Gap Band’s Gap Band IV (1982) (iTunes, Rdio, Spotify)
I had a sense of pride when my brother showed interest in owning records. I was collecting vinyl years before he started actively perusing record stores, and today, the man’s collection is awesomely…
Review: Bob Harper's Beginner-Level Abs-Explosion...
Bob Harper is offering the purchasers of his Beginner-Level Fat-Eviscerating Infinite Pain Transformation DVD a simple choice: You can either be chubby, or he is going to kill you. The choice is a simple one: Chubby, thanks. Chubby people can still live relatively fruitful lives despite their excess. Just look at the actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman, or old pictures of the actor Jonah Hill.
There...
Review: Chronicle
Chronicle is a remake and spiritual successor to Zapped! and also Zapped Again!. Hollywood scuttlebutt reports that the original title of Chronicle was Never Stop Zapping!,but then they changed it, because rewrites had moved the direction of the film into decidedly un-Zapped! waters.
Wikipedia says Zapped! is “a 1982 teen sex comedy starring Scott Baio,” which is another way of...
When I got my hands on a Macbook Air last month...
Review: Children
All adults used to be children, and I think we can all agree that — racists and murderers notwithstanding — adults do some pretty cool stuff sometimes. Not all children turn into adults, however, because sometimes adults are murderers, and sometimes there are rollercoaster accidents. Kids die, I mean to say, which is why I believe they should be evaluated as a standalone product.
I...
Review: Vernors Ginger Ale
I went to the Central Market recently to find an entree and beverage combination that would resuscitate my dying guts-bag (see: The H.C. Gatti’s Experience). I located suitable foodstuffs — a ready-made Beef Bourguignon dish (mini-review: BRYANT YUM-BEL) — but my Canada Dry needs were not met, because Central Market doesn’t stock Canada Dry, presumably because it is not a...
January 2012
20 posts
Review: High Concept Gatti's
High Concept Gatti’s
I visited the High Concept Gatti’s with a group of eager friends at the behest of another friend, who did not go with us to the High Concept Gatti’s because she had eaten at the High Concept Gatti’s for lunch and dinner the previous day. In the hours preceding my visit, I lived in mortal terror of that endorsement, as I don’t need a pizza...
MBMBAM: A year in review
Pretty much the best thing ever.
Professional divers moments after they leave the...
emmyc:
travale:
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i quit
Professional detective and a diver!
I gotta reblog because every time I see this I just lose my shit completely and I just
My next thing: Vox Games
The original plan — crafted cunningly by hands other than my own — was to hold onto this announcement for quite some time after I departed from Joystiq. Fortunately, that plan was revised, which is good not only because we get to get started in a big and public way much sooner, but also because the anticipation would have quickly dissolved me at the subatomic level.
I am helping to...
December 2011
3 posts
It's a Departure
I am leaving Joystiq on Sunday, which, after more than four years of not leaving Joystiq, is kind of a weird turn for things to take.
There are a lot of politics to situations like these that, frankly, I do not understand; nor do I want to. I am not being fired. I am not leaving Joystiq because AOL did something wrong, or because AOL is a crummy employer. There are things I can say and things...
November 2011
2 posts
October 2011
2 posts
September 2011
4 posts
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August 2011
3 posts
Final Destination 5 (all spoilers) →
krisstraub:
As we have seen from previous movies in the series, a person is threatened by death if they happen to say the words “final destination.” This is exacerbated in the opening scene of the fifth movie, where the (fictional) 1970s rock band Gary Whitts and the Final Destination reunites on stage to…
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
6 posts
