Textual harassment
Drunken texty-thumbs can get the best of anyone. There’s actually an iPhone application that makes you solve math problems in order to determine if you are sober enough to be peppering your contacts with messages at 2 a.m. on a Saturday. Alcohol dissolves some people’s electronic boundaries, giving them the liquid courage necessary to make … Continue reading
Those who serve
Somewhere in Paris there is a room, sparsely decorated and populated by one man and his caged bird. The man lies on his bed, cigarette smoke billowing above his head. Later he will rise, don a trench coat and hat and head out into the city to set up alibis for the murder he is … Continue reading
Death, birth, rebirth
This week I decided it was time for some light reading to shepherd me through the dreary days of winter, these endless months when all of us on the east coast with 9-5’s do. Not. See. The sun. And so as to not break my tradition of doing the exact opposite of what I intend … Continue reading
FFVII: Wasting time
I put in a decent amount of time over the weekend. But, I probably only progressed in the story about maybe an hour. You’re thinking, “huh?” or more likely, “Cripes, when is this blog series going to end?” Well. I spent too much time mastering materia and trying out some side-quests.
FFVII: So close
Like many people, I’ve played more Final Fantasy games than I’ve finished. I’ve spent significant time playing Final Fantasies I, III, IV, VII, X, X-2, and XIII, but I’ve only beaten I, IV, X, and X-2. Some of the titles, like XII and XIII, it’s really a matter of time—that is, I just haven’t spent … Continue reading
FFVII: Game over
I can’t do it. I just can’t beat Ruby Weapon without the Knights of the Round. I mean I know it’s possible (I’ve done it before), but the amount of work required is absurd. A finesse win with low level materia is just not in the cards for Andrew. The few alternatives I am aware … Continue reading
The badges behind the bat
One of the best things to come out of Batman: The Animated Series—and there were a number of great things that came out of Batman: The Animated Series—was the character of Renee Montoya. As a uniformed patrolwoman, Montoya starts off as the smart, straight-laced junior foil to the self-serving, corner-cutting, Batman-hating Detective Harvey Bullock. They’re … Continue reading
31 candles
PEOPLE! It is my birthday. For the past few months, inspired largely by my the desire to not be huffing and puffing my way through my Friday evening softball sessions, I have acquired some really fabulous habits (an addiction to running on the elliptical at the Y, uber-healthy eating, tracking my activity and food intake) … Continue reading
Sweet potato soup: a love letter
After my not-so-healthy foray into sweet potato territory last week, I decided this week to make that soup that I avoided last week. I was a little hesitant because my last attempt at a similar soup with butternut squash didn’t turn out very well—the texture was too grainy and I ended up doing the unthinkable … Continue reading
March 7-12, 2011
Is food about nothing but pleasure? Maybe the real problem, Teal Amthor-Shafer writes, is the way that food culture, both retail and media, targets our insecurities, offering easy pleasure through a multitude of choices, and suggesting that if we don’t feel fulfilled, it’s just because we chose the wrong one. Read “Food porn”
Kevin Mattison gives a brief synopsis of the (mostly forgettable) history of vampire films in order to show why 2008’s elegant Let the Right One In is a great film about a vampire rather than simply a vampire film. Read “Let the right one in, indeed”
The Gamers’ Club is playing Final Fantasy VII. Read “Breaking through the wall” by Gavin Craig, “Battle square” by Daniel J. Hogan, and “The end is nigh” by Andrew Simone
You love Missed Connections on Craigslist, with their always fascinating mixture of angst, longing, and hopefulness. It turns out that they make good comics too. Kate Sloan writes about Julia Wertz’s I Saw You. . . anthology in “Wanted: near misses and a little hope for love”
Ana Holguin celebrates Women’s History Month (which, by the way, should be a whole lot more than just a single month) by writing about two of her heroes, Madeleine L’Engle’s Meg Murray from A Wrinkle in Time, and Frida Kahlo. Read “Ms. March”
Lindsey Malta sure knows how to get mileage out of her monkeys. Read as she tells the story of telling a story in “Slammed at the Moth Story Slam”
In “Rounding Third,” Angela Vasquez-Giroux writes about ten things she believes in. Read “For Tim”
Sweet potato. Risotto. Shit gets real in Jill Kolongowski’s “Time to (wo)man up: sweet potato risotto”
