Last week news broke that June’s update would be the video game Destiny 2’s final update. After nine years of Destiny 2 (in addition to three years of the first Destiny), the game’s wrapping up. On the one hand, a game 'ending' shouldn’t be anything new. Game’s end all the time — usually on release.… Continue reading Sunsetting
Pigeons
I usually claim the day I fully became a New Yorker as the day I swore at a pigeon that flew way too close to my head. My swearing wasn’t at the incident but instead a futile string of profanity directly targeted at the dumb pigeon. I don’t think the bird registered it. Pigeons are… Continue reading Pigeons
Forest For The Trees
There’s an article on the AV Club right now about how Andy Serkis didn’t know who Snoke was while making the Star Wars sequels. Which doesn’t really feel like as much of a revelation as it sounds like — sometimes the cast and crew know more than what’s revealed in the piece/on the script, sometimes… Continue reading Forest For The Trees
Scroll On
I cracked open Instagram the other day for my once-a-day-if-I-remember foray into social media. I flicked through the photos on a friend’s post, seeing what she was up to, and then scrolled down only to be greeted by an ominous question: I was, initially, confused. This is the sort of thing I would see on… Continue reading Scroll On
A Brief Respite to Craft a Justification
Not much of a post today, been busy doing chores and playing Clair Obscur. It turns out your thirties is a lot of doing the adult thing while also making space to do those things you enjoy, like poking around a costume store on your way to get groceries. Or buying a robot vacuum to… Continue reading A Brief Respite to Craft a Justification
A New Old Fashioned Comedy
My text editor is filled with around a half-dozen starts to this blog post, so I’ve decided to forgo an elegant opening and jump right to my point: this is a post about Pizza Movie. Pizza Movie has a fairly simple plot, summed up in a Variety article as "a group of college students who… Continue reading A New Old Fashioned Comedy
Antifascist Star Wars
I’ve seen Star Wars so many times that sometimes my mind glosses over its deeper themes. Like how the story is inherently antifascist. It’s easy to point to Andor as when Star Wars got radical, but all that fighting authoritarianism, the crackdowns on personal freedoms, and what would motivate a bystander to join a rebellion… Continue reading Antifascist Star Wars
An Overabundance of Expertise
I am in the market for a robot vacuum. I’ve been thinking of getting one for a while and have decided that I’m tired of having to deal with the dustiness of LA and would like the machines to do things for me. So I did what’s become par the course for any purchase of… Continue reading An Overabundance of Expertise
Three Things
Time for another one of these because the week was hectic, the news is depressing, and I want a weekend of relaxing. So here are three things that I’ve particular enjoyed as of late: The Proteus Operation, book I picked up James P. Hogan’s 1985 novel at a used bookstore while looking to pick up… Continue reading Three Things
News Alerts
There are times when I really don’t like having news notifications on my phone. I was playing video games last night, a Friday night relaxing after the work week, when my phone buzzed. I glanced over and promptly learnt that Israel and the United States had launched missile attacks on Iran. Perhaps I was naive… Continue reading News Alerts
Essays, Not Rants! 