Cecil B. Demented > OBAA

showed my gd face on something for once today

excellent, the plan worked. now do @kayandskittles.bsky.social ................. :) please and ty

Whisper of the Heart is in theaters today, so here's what I wrote for its 30th anniversary last year! Kondo's Ghibli film remains a relevant portrait of what finding connection in an urbanizing, digital world feels like.

obsessed with the quiet stares from university students trying to figure out who the fuck these old men are

New writing: " I came here too late. The party is already over, anyone left is a ghost, muttering fragments of words I don’t fully understand." On Dark Souls: www.patreon.com/posts/154543...

I won a fake oral argument hearing for summary judgment. Celebrating (standing around)

Keep Honking! I'm Reciting Lyrics From Joanna Newsom's Meteoric Sensation 'Ys' So I can Memorize It Like Epic Poetry

New video about the Green Knight, and about us. youtu.be/-wVcMd4iNV8

My take, adapted from my @horrorvanguard.bsky.social precis, on a two-hour Golden Age of Hollywood throwback musical about a down-on-his-luck artist/performer and the woman who loved him despite his difficult past, self-destructive tendencies, and that time he shot Robert de Niro in the face.

law drag names so far: Miss Daya Gnosis Murdeh St. Atute Neglige T. Homicide Judge Learned Hand

Big thanks to both @laborkyle.bsky.social and @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social for talking about this with me in the process of writing this up!

My take, adapted from my @horrorvanguard.bsky.social precis, on a two-hour Golden Age of Hollywood throwback musical about a down-on-his-luck artist/performer and the woman who loved him despite his difficult past, self-destructive tendencies, and that time he shot Robert de Niro in the face.

Davey Wreden is consistently cited as one of the greatest indie devs working and his studio couldn't get funding after putting out a successful game. What the fuck do we have to do man.

what an industry. critical and commercial success, creativity, social relevance and hard work an unsustainable business model and almost 100k units on steam not enough to hit the floor for doing it again. this fucking sucks, there is so much talent here.

request: @thelitcritguy.bsky.social on @workerslit.bsky.social please and ty

"Folie à deux is a desecration of familiar form, reveling in this perverted American sensibility with greater aplomb than any of the films it imitates, and doing so by devouring itself."

AGAB nation, A Dream About Parking Lots is celebrating its first anniversary with a discount. Go get the game our podcast has described as "you have to play or you will go to gamer jail (the farplane from final fantasy x)"

I lured @lleon779.bsky.social of @interactivedreams.bsky.social onto the pod with a loose copy of kentucky route 0 and he graciously decided to stick around and talk about a few of his games, which the Nation of AGAB have canonized via our Best of the Year list from 2025.

61 - Interactive Dreams: Explicating Anxiety and the Beauty of Living w/ Luis León We're joined in the Podcasting Dungeon by Luis León from @interactivedreams.bsky.social to talk about THREE of his games in one go. soundcloud.com/agabpod/61-i...

If you cant love me at my whoopsie daisy yoo hoo then you dont deserve me at my will you still love me when im no longer young and beautiful

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My selection for best games 2025 are now for public consumption, as are the games themselves, which include titles from @interactivedreams.bsky.social, @nicedreamgames.com, and @foddy.net & company. Also Sinners, which is a video game according to rulings found in AGAB common law

In completely useless news, SALEM got the sample rights to whatever recording of Prokofiev they used on Capulets because it's back on streaming.

Extremely excited for this new project from @kayandskittles.bsky.social, who is better equipped to bring the research of historians to a broader audience than just about anyone I know. youtu.be/VW6ao1WvAIE?...

Eggers is beloved by many (myself included, as HV listeners surely know), but what those who grapple with his work often miss is his unique filmic historiography, "a kind of afflicted obsession with making-real the mythologies of human thinking."

TheLitCritGOAT

We were in the presence of greatness. AGAB, the leading historiography podcast, talks the almighty power of the historical crashing into the present with the mighty @jesawyer.bsky.social. Also video games.

A non letterboxd review for once. open.substack.com/pub/kylestev...

Yeah comparison, thief of joy, etc, but I rewatched Grizzly Man and saw my (mustache's) future and it's bright

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59 - Spider-Man 2: So Smart! w/ Justin from @librarypunk.bsky.social We learn the beautiful lessons of the Disney corporation: it's not a big deal to beat up your girlfriend if she's being crazy, gay people do not have sex, and drones are very cool! soundcloud.com/agabpod/59-s...

In some ways this is the government now

After reporting the news, games media must now grapple with what the call to boycott Xbox means for us. I wrote about why we must and how we can orient games writing towards liberation. Games nor words alone will save us, but we can as individuals express solidarity and possibility in all we do.

Impressively deep and on-the-nose thoughts from a four-star review of Mickey 17

I went to gay nerd town USA and you’re a beloved city councilman, you cut the ribbon on a new park

I went to Gay Nerd Town, USA and everyone there was literally in love with you. They said it's because you have kind eyes.

Hatred for Boston City Hall is for the weak willed, for those who dare to stand in front of concrete majesty and say "but it doesn't have columns 👶😢" Okay then go to DC, the imperial core of shitty antique revivalism, the metropole of ugly reactionary aesthetic.

An extended reflection on Hoop's stellar early work. I feel like we barely broke the surface on this one, but I picked it, so ive bias. We hardly got to even mention his work on the Peter Paul and Mary tour documentary!

Waiting until the exact moment people forget about Weapons to start doing the Weapons Run around Boston's theater district (we recorded an episode about Weapons)

Young guy in class debuted his fresh mustache this morning and when he walked in all his buddies went "okay WOW" hope hes having a good day