I was pretty conflicted about playing this game. Don’t get me wrong: I *loved* Ghost of Tsushima, but for reasons that had nothing to do with the main point of the game, i.e., killing people. I loved riding my horse through the jaw-dropping landscape, taking screen-caps of the jaw-dropping landscape, soaking in hot springs, writingContinue reading “Loading…Ghost of Yōtei”
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Letter of Recommendation: A-ha
I think most of us have had that Gestalt-like moment in which we recognize that an artist is expressing something we feel and thought no one else felt. That’s how I felt when I heard A-ha’s debut album, Hunting High and Low, at the age of 15. I’d of course heard “Take on Me” onContinue reading “Letter of Recommendation: A-ha”
Loading…Horizon: Zero Dawn
I realized the other day when I saw one of our cute little campus food-delivery robots trundling its way down the sidewalk, and my first thought was, “Where’s my bow?” that I had perhaps been playing too much Horizon: Zero Dawn. Because in this game, you kill robot dinosaurs like the rent is due. AsContinue reading “Loading…Horizon: Zero Dawn”
Letter of Recommendation: Dickies Coveralls
My friend Seth gave these Flex Cooling Coveralls to me as a birthday present like 25 years ago, and they’ve been the MVP (along with the Roto-Zip) of the Powder-Room remodel. Lightweight and tough, they go over your clothes without binding or overheating you, and they protect you from everything: dust, snags, paint, thinset, theContinue reading “Letter of Recommendation: Dickies Coveralls”
Florida Overseas Heritage Trail
If you’re thinking, blah, blah, blah, palm trees, Jimmy Buffett, and key-lime pie, boy are you are in for a surprise: this blog post is mostly about infrastructure. But! I hope I can make you at least partially as enthralled with the nuts and bolts of the Florida Overseas Heritage Trail as I became overContinue reading “Florida Overseas Heritage Trail”
I Have Notes for…ATEEZ
Yep, that’s right. You can love something or someone with big ol’ heart eyes and still have Ideas about How They Could Do Things Better. It’s probably best not to share these Ideas with them directly, however…. Good thing I have a blog the boys will never read! Let me start with their newest titleContinue reading “I Have Notes for…ATEEZ”
Edinburgh
I did a semester abroad at the University of Edinburgh in the 1990s, and though I’ve been back a couple of times since, I haven’t had the chance to hang out in the city again the way I did as a student. I got that chance last week when I flew to see my friendsContinue reading “Edinburgh”
Processions – Astrid Jaekel Illustration
I’m in Edinburgh right now and will do a bigger post on my trip, but here’s a quick glimpse at an artist I discovered this weekend who does papercuts that get put in windows and cut into steel panels for large-scale site-based installations. This series was in the Meadows, which I used to walk acrossContinue reading “Processions – Astrid Jaekel Illustration”
Loading…Switch Gaming Catch-up
I realize I’ve played several smaller/indie games on the Switch that I haven’t reviewed here, so here goes:
Loading…Ghost of Tsushima
So, I turned myself into a PC gamer this summer. The logic went something like this: That’s the cleaned-up version of the story. Of course there were complications, the two biggest of which were (a) optimizing GOT on my still-pretty-marginal GPU so it didn’t crash once per session (which I was able to do withContinue reading “Loading…Ghost of Tsushima”
The Rookery 