Man cannot subsist on books and comics alone! Especially not when they’re digital, the electrons get stuck in your teeth. So every month I do a wee scoop-together of everything I’ve enjoyed that doesn’t go on my Monthly Books Read List; usually a video game and a show are good bets, as are podcasts and at least one museum. Take a look!
Other Pursuits August 2023, Or, Hang On I Need To Call NASA
3rd Voice (WebToon/Rice-Boy.com) As I’ve mentioned before, I came up in the Golden Age of Webcomics, and one of the most beautiful things about it was that you could read all the…I don’t wanna say ‘mainsteam’ exactly, because that has dismissive connotations and they were up to some delightfully bonkers shit, but the more accessible…
Other Pursuits July 2023, Or, Last Of The Wobbegongs
Dredge (Switch) Everybody loves a fishing minigame! Especially if it’s more than just Press A To Make Fish Happen! Dredge is the title that dares to ask: what if the whole game was a fishing minigame, where every fish’s capture-mechanism is different, and also with some inventory-management-and-upgrade-tree stuff! As all great games do, Dredge starts…
Other Pursuits June 2023, Or, Everyone’s Grudge
(Obligatory reminder to subscribe to my once-monthly newsletter here, which rounds up everything I wrote in the preceding month, grants access to a curated members-only Spotify playlist, and includes a piece of exclusive bonus collectible content I will NEVER repost anywhere else, ever!) AS WE SPEAK, there are two crews of gentlemen here at my human home completely…
Other Pursuits May 2023, or, Bring Me The Lungs Of Dan Marino
(Obligatory reminder to subscribe to my once-monthly newsletter here, which rounds up everything I wrote in the preceding month, grants access to a curated members-only Spotify playlist, and includes a piece of exclusive bonus collectible content I will NEVER repost anywhere else, ever!) Articles Of Interest This began as a six-episode miniseries on 99% Invisible examining the history…
Other Pursuits, April 2023
(Obligatory reminder to subscribe to my once-monthly newsletter here, which rounds up everything I wrote in the preceding month, grants access to a curated members-only Spotify playlist, and includes a piece of exclusive bonus collectible content I will NEVER repost anywhere else, ever!) Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster Collection (Nintendo Switch) I know myself and what I know is…
Other Pursuits March 2023
(Obligatory reminder to subscribe to my once-monthly newsletter here, which rounds up everything I wrote in the preceding month, grants access to a curated members-only Spotify playlist, and includes a piece of exclusive bonus collectible content I will NEVER repost anywhere else, ever!) The Prisoner (Roku Channel) Listen: Have I always been a little obsessed with this 1967…
Other Pursuits, February 2023
Hi all my buddies, I am sleepy from staying up too late looking into alternate writing systems for Klingon, because the defacto pIqaD system is gross and the roman orthography for it is…problematic. But look what I found! Some honorable son of a gun put together a Tengwar mode for it! Quv tej, I think…
Other Pursuits, January 2023
(Obligatory reminder to subscribe to my once-monthly newsletter here, which rounds up everything I wrote in the preceding month, grants access to a curated members-only Spotify playlist, and includes a piece of exclusive bonus collectible content I will NEVER repost anywhere else, ever!) Chained Echoes (Nintendo Switch) After finally putting Persona 5 in the ground, I was in…
Other Pursuits, December 2022
More like Deez Nutz roasting on an open fire, ha-HA! …wait. But then wouldn’t that—no that’s right, it—hang on lemme do some math on this one, you cats go read the article. Toast-tosterone? Is that anything? HEY I SAID GO READ THE ARTICLE, TRUST ME, YOU DON’T WANNA SEE HOW THE DONUTS GET MADE. (Obligatory…
Other Pursuits, November 2022
I AM BACK, and have not rested upon my laurels but labored and learned, like Hercules and like Smartcules, his buff cousin who wears glasses and learns by punching. We installed a new floor in our spare room! It was very difficult, but allow me to give you a piece of advice: if you ever…
Other Pursuits, October 2022
BEIN’ SPOOKED, END OF STORY.Nah jk I probably did some other stuff too, like quit Twitter; lemme have a rummage. (Obligatory reminder to subscribe to my once-monthly newsletter here, which rounds up everything I wrote in the preceding month, grants access to a curated members-only Spotify playlist, and includes a piece of exclusive bonus collectible content…
Other Pursuits, September 2022
Hark, fools, the NINE-MONTH OF THE SEVEN-NAME has failed to kill me for the 33rd time. Better luck next year, fucko. N–not really, actually, you came pretty close this time, don’t–don’t do better next year. Here’s what I’ve been up to this past month when I wasn’t reading, writing this nonsense, or selling my days…
Other Pursuits, August 2022
Especially since the advent of this site, I’ve allocated all of my Media Enjoyment Action Points to the ‘Comics’ column, leaving only baseline levels, influenced by my stats and equipment bonuses, for things like Non-Comic Books and Video Games, to say nothing of non-media exploits. I can’t remember the last time I woodburned a devotary…