Campaign: Star Wars is a fantastic actual play that I think is a must-listen to anyone who likes TAZ (frankly, I think it’s straight up better).  For me it’s the perfect balance of improv humor and creativity with rock-solid dramatic plotting and world-building, and finds that magic chemistry between the cast and GM…

Yeah, this was an almost word-for-word, cadence-for-cadence (down to the asides to the audience!) recreation of that Babs performance.  Which is fine, it seems like that’s part of the joke.  Maybe.

Holy SHIT I had no idea Nnedi Okorafor was writing for Marvel - and on a Shuri book, no less!  Amazing.

When I got my LotR Superdeluxe Banana Boat of Discs n’ Extras (this is a bit before everything went up on youtube on day zero), the very first thing I did was spend about forty-five minutes just looking through the bajillion features to find ANY footage of orcs/uruks doing the haka. I eventually found it, and it was…

Oh shit, that’s terrible. I hate Zsasz.

In 2006 (back when the company was a disc-by-mail service), Netflix put on its ‘Rolling Roadshow’ - screening famous movies in their original locations. The Shining at the Stanley Hotel, The Searchers in Monument Valley, The Warriors on Coney Island, Field of Dreams at the actual Field of Dreams - and yes, Jaws on the…

First one looks like there’s a portal open on that wall.

A steeple full of swallows -

An Infocom-style, parser-based text adventure, Anchorhead, made the top ten.  If you fondly remember Lurking Horror and Infocom, you may be pleased to know that games like that have never stopped being made, and are actually kind of booming these days!  Check out ifdb.tads.org to see what’s up.

Stand By Me soundtrack. I first heard it, before ever seeing the movie, on a girl’s mini boombox in the woods, and thought it was the most awesome thing adolescent me had ever heard. (Looking back, all the songs are really well chosen for having a strong note of childishness in them, until the more downbeat and…

Limetown was the only one of the fauxNPR’s that I have ever liked at all, so I’ll give the new stuff a shot at least. Dig Rabbits (and, like Homecoming or things like Within The Wires or The Bright Sessions, really prefer works that stick with a ‘found sound’ conceit but are willing to dispense with them when apt),…

I love serial fiction podcasts, and I genuinely hope the success of both Homecomings lead to more top-flight acting talent being attracted to the genre. (Yes, it isn’t the most original or daring story out there in serialpodland, but man, listening to the likes of Keener, Isaac, and even David fucking Schwimmer really…

It should be noted that in that audioplay, Keener was playing across from Oscar Isaac (who was unsurprisingly excellent), as well as David Schwimmer (who was, a bit more surprisingly, also excellent).

It comes up totally organically.

He looks more like The Walkin Dude.

I think you’re playing it the right way.  From most of the reviews I’ve read, the tomb puzzling is easily the best part of the game, while the story is....not.

Gaiman is a first class collaborator, a very good short story writer, and a mediocre novelist.

Even as a fan of a lot of Gaiman’s work, <i>American Gods</i> the novel I found to be, at best, a thematically unified anthology of widely varying quality (I’ve described it before as a “kinder, gentler, weaker <i>Deathbird Stories</i>“), connected with a tissue thin membrane of a framing plot, and hampered by,…

Southeastern Louisiana/New Orleans East, one of the largest Vietnamese communities in the US. Down here we also get barbecued pork and brisket banh mi, and if you can find one with a juicy slab of Cajun headcheese in it, buy as many as you can carry.

If Anthony Davis wasn’t already great enough, I would have loved him forever anyway just for agreeing to shoot this ad: