Cinema
The X-Files is an insanely uneven work. Several episodes of the original run make me feel like I am touching God. Several episodes of the original run make me feel like God is pulling my eyeballs out and beating me about the head and feet with them. I don’t
Book Review
Two questions, to begin with: Do you wish there was more Disco Elysium? And do you wish the original Disco Elysium had contained more tantric sex rituals? If you answered yes to both questions, 1) I never want to meet you, and 2) boy howdy, do I have a book
Comics
I used to really love comic books. I used to really love superhero comics in particular. But somewhere in the avalanche of movies and tie-ins and reboots I got buried and I never dug myself out. Perhaps the massive increase in volume did not correspond to an equally massive increase
Book Review
Every December (or January) I buy the annual Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy (BASFF) collection. Every year I suffer a certain amount of trepidation, knowing that the guest editor will swing the pendulum on the selections in an unpredictable direction which may or may not align with my tastes.
Year in Review 2024
What an awful year, was 2024. What a terrible, rotting, degenerated compost heap of a year, particularly when it came to games and the game industry. I can’t name the last time a major US game studio released a game I was excited about. Pentiment? I think it was
Year in Review 2024
I didn’t spend that much time with fresh cinema in 2024. I went to the theater a decent number of times and most of the movies I saw there were also decent. Except Gladiator II, which was awful. Most of the movies I loved were not from this year,
Year in Review 2024
Where to begin the eternal struggle of man vs. blog? This is not my first attempt at building a regular blogging practice, but perhaps it will be my first successful one. My last blog fell into darkness with the rest of Cohost, but my posts remain preserved. Some may yet