Episode 02: In which the Pynchon Pals never resolve how to pronounce “Porpentine” (V. Chs. 3-4) is now live! Pic related. pynchonpals.com

Alright, let's do it. Here's a little prospective reader's guide to every Thomas Pynchon novel. We'll take them in order of publication. This might be a long thread. Buckle up! 1/x

New newsletter! In a very Pynchonesque way, Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another really is a Looney Tunes riff, featuring Sean Penn as a kind of ethnonationalist Wile E. Coyote confounded by a cadre of revolutionary Road Runners. Read more: www.patf.io/pynchon-pals...

Check out this week's edition for a GwG triple play, feat. @srtrzinski.bsky.social, @mayorhere.bsky.social, and @patfio.bsky.social!

The first Blippo+ review to mention Marshall McLuhan *and* Emergency Broadcast Network!

New writing! Jazzed to contribute to @gamerswithglasses.bsky.social about such a cool project.

One Battle After Another! Shadow Ticket! It's Pynchon Season, and we've got a brand new read-along podcast to help you plot the paranoia for the first time, or all over again, starting where it all began with V.! Give Pynchon Pals a listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or elsewhere!

Pynchon Pals is live! Seeing One Battle After Another? Pre-ordered Shadow Ticket? Had Gravity's Rainbow on your shelf for a decade? Or just a longtime fan looking to revisit your favorites? Read V. with us! In this inaugural episode, we meet the Whole Sick Crew, who would have a podcast in 2025.

New post: I played the demo for Erenshor -- the single-player MMO --recorded it, and wrote about it!

New post about Red Rooms and We're All Going to the World's Fair. Two movies about the abyss of the Internet and, oddly enough, the balding weirdo on the other side of the screen. www.patf.io/into-the-scr...

New newsletter up today about my recent one-page outlaw country RPG, THE HIGHWAYMEN, and the 16 year old World of Warcraft machinima music video that ultimately inspired it.

Inspired by the absolute banger and winner of the 1985 Grammy for Best Country Song that is "Highwayman" by The Highwaymen, I finally put together an idea I've been kicking around for years as my submission for the One-Page RPG Jam! Give it a look, or better, a play with some friends.

I started a newsletter! It's called "Critical Theorycraft," and I'll be writing broadly about games, literature, and media every two weeks or so. The first post is up today, and it's about how cool it was to play Nintendo 64 in a hotel room. Toss me your email and you shall be rewarded with posts!

Jorge Luis Borges: In my book I invented Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote

Excited for my student Richard Zhang to present our paper “Beyond Content: Leaning on the Poetics of Defamiliarization in Design Fictions” this week at GROUP 2025. dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Did Elizabeth Bishop write this

A proper intro for new followers! I'm Patrick, I have a PhD in Digital Media, I teach media and critical theory, and I'm working on a book about how video games are made of language. I'm on the job market and very open to freelance gigs: games, experimental/speculative fiction, digital culture, etc!

nw Gilda (1946)

finally finished NIGHTWOOD, Djuna Barnes (1936) -- a brilliantly thorny thicket of a book

290 million years of teasing silksong

i'll give it a second episode, but DUNE PROPHECY was cooked from the moment 30 seconds in when the butlerian jihad was depicted as a bunch of soldiers fighting giant robots

top tier haul from an impromptu stop at the used bookstore today

what a lineup

wrapped the first iteration of my class on "American Gothic Video Games" yesterday ft. KENTUCKY ROUTE ZERO (pictured), NIGHT IN THE WOODS, and NORCO alongside Butler, O'Connor, Jackson, Lovecraft, Poe, and more -- an immensely rewarding teaching experience

great mysticism haul from the used books section today

I'm excited to share via the LA Review of Books my review of Plastiboo's VERMIS, a beautiful dream of a world where strategy guides get the attention they've always deserved. Come for an analysis of the form, stay for the comparisons to Lem and Bolaño!

6 o clock time to watch twilight on my phone

stop making sense is a neo-noir and Jordan Cronenweth's cinematography proves it

posting on bluesky from here