for the little things you might have missed
If you're reading this, and have ever read many of the other posts I've made about games on this blog, you're probably aware that I spend more time than is physically or mentally healthy playing, thinking about, and writing about videogames. But all obsessions start somewhere, and for me, my love affair with games began Christmas … Continue reading Pokémon Sun and Moon: Finally, A Story Worth Telling
I post a lot on here about culture, and games, and writing that makes me think—in essence, about all the things that make me love studying what it is I study. But every once in a while I turn off that part of myself, like I did a few posts back with Where Do Birds Go and my tribute to Gravity … Continue reading You Might Have Missed: Strange Desire
At this point, our general consensus on 2016 seems to range between the first of the years of Tribulation and a collection of memes that should be dropped and disregarded as fast as humanly possible. But what if this year is neither a sentient beast intent on obliterating all we hold dear nor a fad created by melodramatics … Continue reading Don’t Worry, It’s All Meaningless Anyway: A Postmodern Reading of 2016
Rogue One is many things. It is an action movie, an abbreviated hero narrative, a heist film (for about twenty minutes), and, yes, undeniably, a Star Wars story. However, more than anything else, Rogue One is a war movie, and it inhabits that intersection between escapist action and a horrors-of-war narrative better than any other … Continue reading Rogue One: A (Star) War(s) Story
While I usually write about culture here—stories, narratives, movies, videogames, the like—I thought I’d do something a bit different today. Namely, I thought I’d share with you my favorite strip from xkcd, a decently well-known webcomic (at least among nerds) that specializes in weird, dry humor and science mixed with sarcasm. However, this one’s a bit different. … Continue reading You Might Have Missed: Where Do Birds Go
Ah, Phineas and Ferb, legendary chronicle of the immortal adventures of Phineas Flynn and Ferb Fletcher, it may have only been a year or so since you were yanked from the airwaves, but it feels like so much longer. Now that those halcyon days of eternal summer have passed into the rearview, I find myself longing for your exuberant … Continue reading Moooommmm!!: A Feminist Reading of Phineas and Ferb
It's no secret to anyone who's ever booted up Steam that there are a lot of indie games in the world. I've even heard the suggestion that Valve should curb Greenlight—their crowd-sourced independent access program—at least for a while since it lets through so many subpar projects that it makes sorting the diamonds from the rough seemingly impossible. … Continue reading You Might Have Missed: Thomas Was Alone
In those core four American sports—your football, your baseball, your basketball, your hockey—I have never been around to watch one that the world would later refer to as the Greatest of All-Time. I was too young for Jordan and Gretzky by a few years, and Aaron, Montana, and Young by many, many more. The closest I've … Continue reading A Tribute, to the Olympics: The Swansong of the Greatest of All Time
There's a lot of advice floating around for would-be writers, ranging from the omnipresent (read always, write always) to the niche (write at this time of day, always write this many words per day, etc.), but the two best pieces I've ever received both dealt with what is probably the hardest of all moments to … Continue reading A Tribute, to the Redemptive Science-Fiction of Person of Interest
Beyond Pokémon and Nintendo's other banner franchises, shooters have always been my favorite videogame genre. That's not to say they're all I play—I'll play anything I can get my hands on, and as of late I've played quite a few more indie games than big-budget FPSes—but they've more or less become my comfort zone when it comes to … Continue reading Overwatch: A (Super)hero Shooter with (Super)heroic Heart
Sunset Over Ithaca 