January 14, 2025
Adam Ant, formerly of the Ants . . . And the Ants. Whatever. By the time I had clued in, he had left the Ants behind Let’s get this out of the way—appropriation. Yup, no doubt about it. He shouldn’t Read more…
January 10, 2025
This holiday break, two of the movies I watched were Akira Kurosawa’s The Bad Sleep Well from 1960 and The Founder from John Lee Hancock. Both of these movies tell stories of ambition in the corporate world—for The Bad Sleep Read more…
January 7, 2025
Welcome to 2025, by way of 1981! The Human League. For me, they were the sound of 1980s synth-pop. More than even the Eurythmics. “Don’t You Want Me” was the opening for me. I think I may have already had Read more…
January 2, 2025
. . . to go forward. I’m working on a robust or complex TTRPG system right now—more complex than my usual ‘story-forward’ games but not to the level of D&D or GURPS—and I thought I faced an intractable problem. I Read more…
December 24, 2024
This compiles something I threw up on Bluesky because I was thinking about Christmas and what it means to me. I was thinking of a much spicier take–building on the transparency of the “war on Christmas” disinformation–but I (wisely?) decided Read more…
December 23, 2024
I am lucky enough to have a job that affords me the chance to take leave at Christmas. Well, I can take leave any time I want, but my job also provides three days off, so leave used around Christmas Read more…
December 20, 2024
I’ve already written of my love for Cyberpunk 2077, then I did a one-page adventure seed inspired by it, so what am I doing now? Well, Cyberpunk 2077 is a computer game, but it is an RPG. Part of its Read more…
December 17, 2024
Before Duran Duran became stadium-filling, teen idol, superstars, they were perhaps the first new romantic band that really made an impact on me. It was funny, back in 1982, when I was just coming into the FM radio orbit, leaving Read more…
December 12, 2024
I am probably the last person to buy and play Cyberpunk 2077, so I guess this is more of a consideration than a review. As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I tend to wait until AAA games are significantly discounted—generally by more Read more…
December 11, 2024
This one is all my sister’s fault. She was the one who got the Go-Go’s first album, Beauty and the Beat. I have come to learn that my favourite musical genre is power pop, and most of the songs I Read more…