Archive for March, 2010
The incident the other day with those friendly neighborhood teabaggers throwing out a few harmless epithets at our lawmakers has gotten people really worked up about the nascent Tea Party movement. But really, isn’t it because we just haven’t communicated with them properly? It’s like that movie with Sigourney Weaver — the one with the [...]
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And “Jesus” spelled backwards sounds like “sausage.” It’s true. I just learned that. Anyway, ’tis been a while since I yammered on about food and how you should try not to eat like an asshole (damn, now I’m picturing a literal asshole try to eat something — like, say, a tomato or a Zagnut bar). [...]
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I might actually be more confused than in yesterday’s post. This is probably natural. Some metaphor probably waits at work here — “Well, first you’ve got to go through the darkness to get to the light,” or, “You must first be eaten half to death by angry fire ants before you become the Mighty Ant [...]
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I’m on deck at DIY Days NYC to give a talk about storytelling in games (a talk that is, at present, called “Once Upon A Playtime”). Basically, with this talk I’m shunting aside the old question of Are games art? because that question is (to me) meaningless to the designer, to the creator. Instead, I’m [...]
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Would just like to offer a sincere “Holy Crap, Congrabulashuns!” to Faithful terribleminds readers Rick and Maggie Carroll, on the birth of their newest diabolical progeny, Amber Cynthia Darlene Carroll! (Though if they really loved us, they would have named the child Terribleminds Wendigo Carroll, but, y’know, whatever.)
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