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.
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 [...]
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.
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.
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.
She launched into a mimed imitation of me, instantly recognizable — all of my good friends would have laughed out loud to see it — this look of focused, “very earnest concentration” that struck her as “scholarly.”
What an amazing, thought-provoking experience this game was. It’s been months since I finished playing it, but all of the following is still on my mind at the level of detail you see here. A lot of it has to do with what I brought to the experience of playing it, but that’s what’s good [...]
Time to start playing around with this and seeing how I like it. Upload some old, “classic” material to the subsections, see whether I like blog-posting them or creating whole separate pages for them.
“Oh, is there spinach in the garden enchiladas?” he asks rhetorically. “I’ll have to check.” He leaves my table. I see him grab a menu and look up the garden enchiladas, and I watch as a funny reaction crosses his face as he reads the first words of the description: “Spinach-filled…”
Appendix A: The Making of Pages 1-24
First of all, I have to say that writing and drawing this
comic has been the most satisfying creative project of the
year for me. It demanded a lot from me, and that’s partly
why it ended up being somewhat thrilling. Keeping on my
self-imposed schedule (aiming to be done with each page
at [...]