Scallops and homemade kimchi ramen!

Infuriating. Reading a recent book purporting to be a history of the NYC avant-garde in the 1960s. Not a mention of Ed Bullins, Larry Neal, Barbara Ann Teer, the Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School, The National Black Theatre, etc. Apparently NYC stops at 110th Street?

Finally getting to the @criterionchannl.bsky.social's Sudanese Film Group program and it is predictably amazing. In addition to A Camel (see below), I just watched It Still Rotates (1978) by Suliman Mohamed Ibrahim Elnour, which depicts a new school in one of the deserts of post-colonial Yemen.

In preparation for a recent D&D session, I placed a Mimic disguised as a chair in a dining room. A player-character walked right up, looked it over, then sat down. The surprise, the teeth, that tongue! There really is nothing like a Mimic. A reminder that the classics are still worth playing.

New collection announcement: We're live at GDC... 1989! We've digitized 21 hours of talks from the third ever Computer Game Developers' Conference, now available for free in our digital library 🔊 gamehistory.org/cgdc-1989-ta...

Love this idea, but instead of a bar it's a bakery, and instead of "situation monitoring" it's a "library", and the last tiny change is instead of the money going to gambling cabals it goes to local community organizations

Could someone please grab a few strands of Fetterman's eyebrows for me? I've got a craft project involving a thornbush and a bowl of water that could use that special touch.

TTRPG folks: if you have worked on games involving the Early Modern period or Shakespeare, could you let me know?

Perfect

Why did Reuters feel compelled to dox Banksy? What to Know About Banksy and the Effort to Unmask Him www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/a...

Twine games like @porpentine.bsky.social's 'With Those We Love Alive' deploy the hypertext link in ways that evoke powerful figurative and affective experience. Jeff Parker's "A Poetics of the Link" captures this experience well: www.altx.com/ebr/ebr12/pa...

Purchased!

In tomorrow's Videogames as Literature class, we're continuing to explore Queer/ing Games, our focus being a Twine that I've played dozens of times and still shatters me: @porpentine.bsky.social's "With Those We Love Alive." xrafstar.monster/games/twine/....

Well this is horrible. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...

Kind of ancillary to the article's main thrust, but gives a sense of the different ways in which games have been a reference point & resource for the right... www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

For those who know and love the North Rim of the Grand Canyon and its magnificient incomparable lodge, a heartbreaking story of the fire and the future. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Oh my, did we ever get the juice out of ‘Queers in Love at the End of the World’!

“No deporting US citizens” is a CONCESSION???

Those fuckers have my number.

I just heard that Paul Thomas Anderson has been attached to direct an adaptation of Don DeLilo's UNDERWORLD with a script penned by Noah Baumbach. This is my Gen-X English-Major turducken

Bring on the prosecutions! www.cbsnews.com/news/gregory...

Surprised by snow.

This week in Videogames as Literature, we're beginning a unit on queer/ing games. Today's texts: Anna Anthropy's 'Queers in Love at the End of the World' and 'Dys4ia'; and Naomi Clark and merrit k's 'Queering Human-Game Relations' (links to all texts in next post).

Surprised by snow.

Now that Timothee Chalamet has been taught a bloody good lesson everyone can go back to doing what they do best: Regularly and enthusiastically attending the ballet and opera

Emma Stone really working to get that smile over the fillers and Botox.

[They do not move.]

There are some strange, unsettling, even mind-altering nooks and crannies to be found in the Digital Humanities, but I can personally guarantee nothing is more, uh, more, than the Twine storygames constructed by two dozen gifted middle-schoolers. Yes, my child, my "aura" is indeed "crazy."

do you ever consider the table in table top role playing games

Singing this to the tune of L’Internationale

I'm sorry ma'am, but your son perished on Kharg Island in a valiant effort to create Wii Bowling meme videos for the White House X account. In the face of danger, he was not cringe; he was based to his last breath. Please have this commemorative Epic Fury challenge coin. Yes that's Punisher, ma'am

New FUNDED PhD opportunity with me, @doktornick.bsky.social, and @bomlab.bsky.social on 'Playing in Public: Game-Based Interventions for Sustainability, Community and Environmental Engagement' as part of the CreaTech Frontiers CDA scheme! Deadline: 10 April Details: www.bcu.ac.uk/research/our...

Morning bun from Madeleine Bakery, Pittsburgh. Croissant twist with citrus sugar. Perfect.

Daniella Shreir reviews Chantal Akerman's writings and films. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I am old enough to remember the vitriol directed at random humanities scholars' work complaining about the totalizing tendencies of capitalism to corrupt, colonize, or co-opt everything. I also lived long enough to read long term coverage of the literal attempt to privatize thinking in the newspaper

Tristan + Isolde (2015, Choreography, Concept, and Staging, David Dawson)

I AM HORROR A global archive documenting creators of color shaping the horror genre. The archive begins March 15. Submissions open the same day. #NightTideMag 👻 📽️ 📺 🎭 📚 🌎 Archive matters. Record matters.

I'm delighted to be keynoting next Thursday at the Online Symposium "Videogame Preservation: Practices and Approaches" organised by the Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk. I will present on "Play It Again" & the #AusEAASI network. @aarnet.edu.au www.digitalscholarship.ox.ac.uk/event/videog...

The U.S. is a kleptocracy. When we failed to prosecute the bankers and policy-makers responsible for the 2008 financial crisis, we ensured systemic looting.

Uggh. Just completed a review of a 120k-word manuscript and had to advise rejection. So much effort, such intelligence, but almost completely lacking reference to other work on the subject. Absent a sense of the conversation, how can I understand what you want to contribute? Double uggh.

There are very few things from my 1980s teenage years that continue to provide me undiluted geek delight. The final credits scene from 'Buckaroo Banzai' is one of them. The energy of the cast (little Damon Hines leading the charge), the costumes by Aggie Guerard Rodgers! youtu.be/MAgnTREVCXk?...

That's about half of what it cost for USAID for a whole year www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

Get brav?

$11.3 billion could cover any of the following for a full year: -1.4 million people on Medicaid -19 million kids getting free school lunches -1.4 million people getting affordable housing -1.1 million hungry seniors fed -0.8 million children given free child care

Exactly this:

Here are the details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

If you'd like to learn more about our project, please DM me! It's been so much fun working with our teaching partners for the last 10 years to integrate game design into ELA classes and getting students to think about their own choices in conversation with those of literary characters.