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
Virtual Worlds
Remember the Metaverse? Touted in 2021 (and into 2022), it was this groundbreaking new technology that was going to change the way we interacted online. No more would it be websites and chatrooms — it would be a digital world. Cyberspace. We would be like Tron, like The Matrix, like Mega Man Battle Network. Millions… Continue reading Virtual Worlds
Anonymity
In a purported effort to 'protect the children,' Discord has announced that all accounts will be given the safety settings assigned for teenagers unless the user can prove they are an adult. This proving-you’re-an-adult will be done with an 'age inference model' that guesses if you’ve an adult based on your activity on the platform.… Continue reading Anonymity
Sometimes I miss making bad art.
Doodles in the margins of homework; angsty teenage poetry; amateur sketches and cartoons. I spent a lot of my teenage years making that (and more!) and, every now and then, I really miss it. I miss just making stuff, showing it to friends in the real world and friends online, and then doing something else.… Continue reading Sometimes I miss making bad art.
Long Seasons
I’ve been watching some of Star Trek: The Next Generation lately and besides continuing my realization that Star Trek is very much my jam, it’s making me realize how much I miss long seasons of television. Television used to run in consistent 22-24 episode seasons (at least in the States; shows in the UK and… Continue reading Long Seasons
Essays, Not Rants! 