After spending most of the last week steeped in Doctor Who, that thing happened in my brain where it wanted to celebrate being flooded with tasty input by outputting something in kind.
[Read more...]Taking Woodstock (2009)
Directed by Ang Lee. Starring Demetri Martin, Imelda Staunton, Henry Goodman, Eugene Levy, and Liev Schrieber.
I’m not sure what they were thinking, but I thought that opening this movie on the weekend after the Woodstock concert anniversary was one of the worst scheduling decisions I’ve seen in a while. Not the weekend of, [...]
Oh, Calcutta! is one of those Age of Aquarius theater experiences I’ve known about for some time. One comes across references to it when one delves into the 60s and 70s or the modern history of theater. I never knew exactly what it was about or why it had that peculiar title. Its main claim [...]
[Read more...]This past May, Anthony Sloan, one of my best and lifelong friends, died suddenly. Today, his ashes are being scattered at a sacred place in Utah, on what would have been his 39th birthday. Here is a copy of the words I wrote for the memorial we held for him in Austin.
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To me, fair [...]
The latest episode of The Rob Show is now available on blip.tv. Plenty of new songs, a story about cleaning up, Rob’s book recommendations, and a special sneak preview of Rob’s upcoming IF game, “High Midnight.”
[Read more...]I’m sitting here in this all-night cafe pondering Quentin Tarantino’s career and his status as an artist who has managed to keep the conditions alive for creating the art he wants to create, because I consider myself an artist, too.
[Read more...]Okay, I’ve been thinking lately about starting to release my IF development logs, which I always keep as a text file when I’m writing a game. They’re essentially blog posts about how it’s going, except I never actually post them to a blog, which seems wrong.
I may have to start a separate blog just for [...]
The latest episode of The Rob Show is now available on blip.tv. Rob delves into the question of fan letters, and determines that you can’t write them any more because there’s no address to send them to.
[Read more...]This is from the great local video store (Vulcan Video) that I go to. Purportedly a true story, it sounds polished through frequent retelling over the years, but the end result is great. Scroll down and start reading from where it says:
“It was maybe, like, four years ago,” begins Shivers. “It was a night that [...]
The latest episode is now available on blip.tv. Music, chat, stories, Apple II Archives, IF game development discussion, assorted ideas, and more music.
[Read more...]Most people will just think Terminator Salvation is boring, but it’s much more insidious than that for not being obvious in how void it is, what seems to me not just bad creativity, but void creativity, something that creates a vacuum that leaves less creativity in the world for having been introduced.
[Read more...]Happy Independence Day! Here’s a song I recorded in a happy mood a few months ago, freshly mixed for the 4th.
We’re Gonna Have a Party