A friend recently brought to my attention that my Gamer Card indicates that when you stitch together all the hours I’ve spent playing State of Decay 2 on XBox One, […]
Personal
What I would have said to him.
For Brian First, I would have said thank you. I was 35 and recently divorced–the line-drawing kind–which meant I had lost half of the New York friends that I had […]
Fiction - Humor - Short Story
The Copycat (Part 2 of 2)
[Note: This is part 2 of 2. Start with part 1.] “Your Flavor,” Lima’s newest campaign, was an overnight hit. Sales, reported Christy, were up to unprecedented levels for late […]
Fiction - Humor - Short Story
The Copycat (part 1 of 2)
It was Friday evening and their weekend should have already begun, but instead the team at Praxis Adaptive were rapt around a single conference phone. Praxis, as it was often […]
Reviews - Video Games
Top 10 XCOM2 Tactics for Beginners
I love XCOM. I came to it via the iPad, and played XCOM: Enemy Unknown on the couch, watching TV, on a plane, basically everywhere. It is, in my opinion, […]
Music - Personal
Appears On
So, this is a new one. Here’s a recording on me appearing on a record called Ghosts In the Machine. Nathan has been on fire lately. Released today, including another […]
Comics - TV
From Power Man to Iron Fist: Netflix’s Newest Marvel Show Looks Lame as Hell
The latest in Netflix’s roster of Marvel TV show heroes, The Defenders, is almost here. Netflix’s Defenders were intended to be four: Daredevil, Luke Cage (Power Man), Jessica Jones and […]
Celebrities - Commentary - Politics - TV
The Teacher and the Troll-King: James Baldwin and Milo Yiannopoulos in the Age of Social Media and Liberal Decline
We’ve had a peculiar confluence of two names that have re-arisen in popular consciousness: Milo Yiannopoulos and James Baldwin. Yiannopoulos, the disgraced now-former Breitbart Editor, for his outlandish and self-aggrandizing […]
Commentary - Politics
The Way Forward 1: The Rust Belt
I. Context For a period of time in the mid to late 80’s we lived in Northern Virginia, an area called Fairfax county, just south of Washington, D.C. Coming from a five-college […]
Commentary - Music
History is Blind
I used to have a book that I kept in the bathroom called “The 100”, which made the case for the 100 most influential people in history. When people heard […]