I originally wasn’t going to write this post. This morning I read a great piece in Offworld by Aevee Bee on video game bodies and physical conflict as metaphor for […]
Real Life
I’ll Be Watching
So, this is an open missive to the creators of HBO’s Looking, about their upcoming second season of the show. Now, I know that on the eve of the premiere tonight is […]
The Lady Boss Project
Sorry again for a not-about-gaming post. As before, if you’re here mostly for games crit, you’re free to go. So if you follow me on Twitter, you know a few […]
Taxonomy
Hey there. So normally I use this blog for like… 80% games criticism, 15% general media criticism, and maybe 5% personal stuff I just need to talk about. This post […]
Eat This
Okay. It’s 2:30am, and this has been stewing all night, and on the heels of my GaymerX talk hitting YouTube and my expanded version of it getting into GDC, this feels […]
Three Short, Fat Films
I’ve realized I probably do too much Mega Buster charging when it comes to blog posts: I wait until I’ve got so fucking much to say that it pours out in a […]
Day in the Sun
So, this semester I’m teaching a course on “Game Design for Expression.” It’s really more of a class on how students — especially students with no technology or game background […]
Sin and Punishment
Okay, I try to keep this blog mostly about games and criticism and scholarship and sometimes games criticism scholarship but I don’t really have a personal blog anymore with the […]
Rampant self-promotion
So, a friend asked for me to consolidate, somewhere, links to the various podcasts I have been a guest of this past year. For some reason I cannot fathom the […]
I have no words
When I was five, my parents got divorced. For many long years, my mother raised me by herself. She worked a job that didn’t put any of her great intellect […]