Fun new music releases today include mcbaise, Allie X, and Insecure Men. open.substack.com/pub/ericstir...

What a banger

Watching this be proven in real time as result after result comes in is washing away so much of the ever present despair I’ve been feeling for months.

I am so excited for the AdHoc crew about this. Back in the Telltale days we would have been thrilled - THRILLED - to have sold a million copies of anything over a series' lifespan, much less in two weeks. Geez! So awesome.

New awareness campaign

A lovely write-up about one of the most influential artists of the 00s internet artpunk era

After twelve years of gracing the world with her floofs, her screams, her beauty, and her single braincell, we sadly had to say goodbye to our dear cat Milo today. My mornings won’t be the same without her.

I' LL BE THE HIT OF THE PARTY

I’m wading through a lot of baseball posts this morning and this is probably my favorite one

Some fun new finds from Down Under today, plus an old favorite drops a new single. open.substack.com/pub/ericstir...

A reminder that the original Hallowe'en jack o' lanterns date back to 18th century Ireland if not earlier, were based on a shady boozy blacksmith called Stingy Jack who cheated the devil & was trapped between 2 worlds, were carved from turnips and looked like this:

This post on Reddit about someone sharing a game I worked on with their younger brother made me crumble further and further into ancient dust with each word.

Gasped while reading this on the train.

Captured at my friend’s party last week giving accidental ‘70s Hollywood Sleaze.

Still a bit of wonkiness that needs fixing up, but I’ve completed both of the paws for my son’s Stitch costume.

🚨DEAD STATIC DRIVE HAS A RELEASE DATE!!!🚨 www.deadstaticdrive.com/releases NOVEMBER 5TH Y'ALL. Congrats to @mike.reuben.games, @leena.reuben.games, and the whole DSD team - I've been DYING to play this one.

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Last night was daylight savings time here in Finland, and speaking as the father of a four year old and the guardian of two cats: Fuck daylight savings time.

It’s New Music Friday! Good day for sparkly Chicago pop and Lily Allen coming back for the first time in nine years to absolutely tear her ex a new asshole in majestic fashion. open.substack.com/pub/ericstir...

say it loud, say it proud.

Congrats to the AdHoc team on launching their first game, DISPATCH. So exciting to see some of my old Telltale colleagues carrying that TTG DNA forward in such beautiful fashion, and I can’t wait to check it out.

oh happy wednesday to me there's a new mei semones EP! meisemones.bandcamp.com/album/kuraya...

Have you ever listened to Fleur? She's a Dutch singer who makes music that I can only describe as garage rock Nancy Sinatra by way of 60s French Mod and it rules. Highly recommend her 2024 album "Fille Sauvage": yeyefleur.bandcamp.com/album/fille-...

@jackknobel.bsky.social and @aliviamantel.bsky.social looking straight out of 2002 in this shot

It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again. www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

Update:

I knew that there were infamously missing episodes of Doctor Who, but I had no idea it was *almost a hundred of them.* Blimey.

Some very cool and slinky Frou Frou vibes on this new track from LIV. #NewMusicFriday youtu.be/pGJ1eMjfbDY?...

Apple music isnt an option for me (samsung user) but I will add to this that tidal has AMAZING sound quality and pays artists the best out of all the streaming platforms!! the only thing its missing are podcasts but other than that tidal is a 10/10 choice for people outside of apple ecosystem :)

hi please stop using spotify. apple music is as good or better in all regards and doesn't run ads for ICE

I feel seen and attacked at the same time

Spielberg: “Drew made event art. His posters made many of our movies into destinations … and the memory of those movies and the age we were when we saw them always comes flashing back just by glancing at his iconic photorealistic imagery. In his own invented style, nobody drew like Drew.”

Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI. Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...

Dear [Everyone Who Has Told Me To Read The Murderbot Diaries], I have started reading The Murderbot Diaries so you may now stop telling me to read The Murderbot Diaries. Furthermore, you were all correct when you said they were “something [you] bet [I] would love” and “absolutely [my] shit.”

I also patted the electric stovetop with my fingertips to see if it was on (it was) so I’m a wild card today.

I finished a bottle of shampoo and conditioner at the same time. AMA.

Somehow, today marks the tenth (?!) anniversary of the launch of “Minecraft: Story Mode.” It was a bit of a punching bag for the internet and social media back then, but it has unbelievably continued to draw fans all these years later even while unavailable to play in any (official) form.

Tron: Ares is a very colorful movie in which many things happen. But it misses a big part of what made the original "Tron" work. Since no one asked, let's talk a bit about cyberpunk, video games, and religious allegory.

Holy shit someone uploaded the entire stage play adaptation of the Yakuza videogame series with English subtitles and it’s glorious and 500x better than the Amazon show youtu.be/Z2Msr4si6dU?...

Two really fun debut self-titled albums dropped today - PACKAGING and LONG FLING - plus a great remix album of one of my favorite 2024 releases. open.substack.com/pub/ericstir...

People who think the idea of "give me ideas" is something genuinely creative people want have literally never experienced the absolute EUPHORIA of a brainstorming breakthrough, either solo or with a human collaborator. They don't understand what is happening when artists create, on a basic level.

This was one of the coolest things about working on the Lord of the Rings Magic set. Need another setpiece? Well there's one sentence where Treebeard says Galadriel solo'd an entire orc army so let's depict that shit.

remeber when egg was bigger than before

Oh wow what a stellar pitch. I am goddamn excited to read this.

This is also true for people talking about how they feel like they never find new music/bands anymore. The coverage and writing is out there; if you care about it, you just need to put in the work to seek it out!

My son is home sick today so we’ve been playing some Astro Bot as a special treat, and good lord every time I play this game I just find new details to love.

Love this Apple Music interview from Damon Albarn & Jamie Hewlett about the next Gorillaz album. I’ve been following Gorillaz for over twenty years now, and I don’t think I’ve ever been more excited about where they’re at artistically since maybe the Demon Days/Plastic Beach era.

Fascinating story about a “ghost” concept car that was designed in 1939 but possibly/maybe/probably not actually built at the time, and only discovered when the sketches were found in a barn decades later. “The Dusenberg Coupe Simone” www.hagerty.com/media/automo...

[My first day as a detective] Me: It's one way glass he can't see you. Just point at the killer. Witness: All I can see is our reflection. Me: Ah, ok. Everybody swap rooms.

Boosting again, please share! Still looking for writing work-- full time or contract, i'm incredibly adaptable and eager to learn and grow ✍️