Note to self, use my Kindle to read Gravity's Rainbow!

Making my way through Anathem by Neal Stephenson. I never did finish Cryptonomicon (too huge and dense), and this book is larger, but the subject matter in Anathem seems more appealing to me so far— I am about 20% of the way through. The overall theme reminds me of one of my favorite novels, Nabokov's Invitation to a…

If you like Margaret Atwood, have you read Oryx and Crake yet? Another incredibly depressing yet beautifully written piece of dystopian speculative fiction. I didn't feel quite as much like killing myself after Oryx and Crake as I did after Handmaid's Tale, so there's that.

Maybe I'll try it again at some point. I remember trying to start it once, years back, and finding the prose style sort of bewildering and uninviting. I think I'm more open to "vaguely narrative stream-of-consciousness poetry" these days, though.

I don't even own a Tolstoy.

"Ribbed for her pleasure"?

Of Cock 2: Electric Cockaloo

The company I work for has Ralph Lauren (Inc.) as a client, and in reading their website for work purposes, I learned that a fashion model named "Lauren Bush" (W's niece) married into the Lauren family, thus becoming Lauren Lauren. Bonus points for the fact that the two "Lauren"s are pronounced differently.

"With all due respect, go fuck yourself, you pathetic slime."

A Gay Cat-Pirate Takes On Buzzfeed… What Happens Next Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity

Hot, perhaps, but more to the point, she put on a truly incredible performance. Jennifer Lawrence was pretty great as the completely crazy wife, too. The male actors were fine, but it was the women who really stood out for me. Too bad they had to deal with the rather ridiculous costume design ("it's the 70s! let's…

First Girard, now Effigy_Power on the illustration. Rock on, Originoo Gameolos!!!

Plus, they could recycle the art style from the movie with Keanu Reeves for bonus Dickian psychedelia.

Mmm…. plaid.

I know nothing about this game but I feel like this could be a candidate for the best tagline ever.

Do I get some sort of plaid party hat for getting what may be the first-ever Keyboard Geniuses birthday shout-out?

I didn't buy anything either. In my case too, it was specifically because I have way too much older stuff stacked up and waiting to play. Well… also some new stuff that I was too eager to buy and so I didn't even wait for a sale. So I am cut off until I either finish like 5 more games out of my existing backlog, or…

I've had one ill-fated (Normal) Ironman run on Enemy Within. It's been 3 weeks since everyone died, so I'm probably almost ready to start up another. So you're not alone.

Dang, somehow missed this when it first went up. Well, first of all, the votes are in on this edition of the Gameological Game Revue Club on Steam… and we have a first-ever tie for first place! So we decided to play both of the winning games, one after the other. First up is Hotline Miami, and the discussion thread is…

It's that special time each month when I hijack every game-related thread to hype the VOTING FOR THE GAME REVUE CLUB on Steam! Here's the link where you can check out the candidates and vote for the game that we'll all be playing and discussing together for the next 2-4 weeks.