A field guide to Questionable Content
I’m lucky enough to live in a city that’s home to an awesome library with a formidable (depending on your level of interest in Charlie Brown’s gang) comic collection. But if I remember correctly from growing up, a lot of libraries are kind of terrible. And because two of my posts so far are really … Continue reading
Bored at work?
Pathos Pathos is a strange, but delightful browser flash game/story thing about a boy who is impossible. At roughly five minutes, it’s better experienced than explained. The Great Gatsby (For NES) The music is absolutely top shelf. A retro platformer, from the title screen, Gatsby completely captures the feel of the early NES games. Of … Continue reading
FFVII: El Cid and the end of disc 1
I cannot escape this game any longer. It consumes me. It calls to me. Its hooks are firmly set within my flesh and psyche. Meaning: I’ve been playing this game too damn much lately. So much, that I see the menu commands in my sleep. But, I digress. I found the last playable character, Cid—a … Continue reading
Nightmares on F Street, or, Archival horrors
So, this week I’m idling on location in not-so-sunny, slightly snowy, Washington D.C. The lady I’m vacationing with is out taking the bar exam for some reason and I’m tucked in my cushy One Washington Circle Hotel bed writing to you. Late yesterday afternoon we decided to do as the D.C. tourists do and get … Continue reading
The seven deadly sins for children
Back when I had Netflix I rediscovered the musical movie Rumpelstiltskin (1987) starring Amy Irving and Billy Barty. My sister and I enjoyed it as children and I couldn’t resist throwing it in my queue. It was as I remembered it, but with my adult outlook I found the story to be really awful for … Continue reading
In which Miguel Cabrera breaks my motherfucking heart
“There’s no anger or animosity from us, your first reaction is for the person,” Avila said. “Millions of people have problems with alcohol and drugs. It’s something that can be overcome, but you need a lot of help.” —The Detroit News, February 18 Miguel Cabrera. Of all the strange ways life foreshadows itself, there’s this: … Continue reading
The lesser of many evils: a guide to fast food
I travel so much that I’m now an expert in airports. I know how to tell which security line is quickest (those with people carrying briefcases, traveling alone, no kids), I know which airports and which terminals have the best food (Detroit MacNamara terminal = great food. Reagan International Terminal = not so much). And … Continue reading
February 14-19, 2011
Sometimes timing isn’t everything. Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006, but Mike Vincent is just learning to love them. Read about it in “Late to the table”
Who has time to watch the Oscar nominees? Kevin Mattison, that’s who, and he’s hooking you up with the Cliffs Notes. He continues this week with “Most girls like to play pretties, but you like guns do you?” (True Grit) and “Other things may change us, but we start and end with family” (The Fighter)
The Gamers’ Club is playing Final Fantasy VII. Read “Jumping off the rails” by Gavin Craig, “Enemy mine” by Daniel J. Hogan, and “Cid” by Andrew Simone
Kate Sloan had never been a fan of the police procedural. Then she realized that the problem was just that she had never read Sam and Twitch. Read “Watching the detectives”
It’s that time again. The sun is in the sky, the birds are singing, and a woman’s heart turns to thoughts of baseball. Read Angela Vasquez-Giroux’s “Love Letter Postmarked Michigan and Trumball”
Drunk on love? Or just sick and tired of people who are? Either way, nurse your post-Valentine’s Day hangover with the hair of the dog. Or the giraffe, as it were, with Lindsey Malta’s list of “The five least romantic animal mating rituals”
In “The F Word,” Jill Kolongowski tries to reconcile her high-powered urbanite self-image with the budgetary and nutritional realities that demand she brown-bag her lunch. Read “On being lame: bringing lunch to work”
And the Idler’s writers let you in on their Valentine’s Day plans, romantic and otherwise in “What are you doing for Valentine’s Day?”
Late to the table
As I may have mentioned once, twice, or a million times (If you knew me in person) I used to work in a record store. Once as a lowly employee, once as a manager slowly running the department into the ground. There is something pure and smug about working with music, whether we choose to … Continue reading
Most girls like to play pretties, but you like guns do you?
Three things occurred to me while watching the Coen brother’s latest film, True Grit: 1) Hailee Steinfeld’s Best Supporting Actress nomination is pure silliness given that this is clearly her film, however, I’ll take a silly nomination over no nomination. 2) Jeff Bridges is, without a doubt, one of the finest actors of our time, and … Continue reading
