My best friend and I have a symbiotic relationship when it comes to horror games: he can't play them alone, and I can't play them at all. So I'll sit on the couch next to him as moral support, and thus stay on top of the horror zeitgeist without having to freak myself out unduly. It's actually pretty entertaining,…

Confession: it is.

If you see anybody swearing in a mix of four languages at sidewalk bikers (!לך קיבינימט! كس أختك, يا أبن شرموطة There's a dedicated bike path literally half a block that way!), you can also think of me. Because that will probably be me.

I suppose I did. Some of those policies hit close to home, which may be part of the reason I reacted viscerally to an ad on my dashboard extolling job creation. Honestly, though, I almost never talk electoral politics if I can help it, it's just that they…have a tendency to follow one around. Even to the Xbox.

…too close.

I don't think only conservatives politicize the video game industry. It's more of a "person who hasn't seen a video game since Pac-Man" thing than a "left vs. right" thing. My point is that the kind of people who a decade ago might have tried to score some points at the video game industry's expense (that is,…

Wait, I have a French press and a tagine and a clear hierarchy of which housemates are responsible enough to use what cookware, in addition to being a rugged Semitic warrior-poet. But I'm also preternaturally embittered and often fail at the most basic lifestyle maintenance tasks. Which New Girl character am I…

Every real Shakespeare buff knows that Horatio wasn't paying attention because he was thinking about Havarti, thus rendering it a soliloquy. Try to keep up.

Wait, it doesn't start reciting the "Alas, poor Yorick" soliloquy? That is a huge missed opportunity.

Off-Topic Expression of Revulsion:

I see you looked up your ex on LinkedIn to compare relative success in life…

Castle’s tricks were inspired in part by the 3-D boom in the early 1950s, which had emerged in order to draw audiences away from the allure of television by promising them a new kind of moviegoing experience.

Hear Other Worthwhile Minneapolis Sound Artists…This:

A Thing That Happened:

Fun fact! Fun fact!

Did you tell her that she could burn up your clothes, smash up your ride, and then quickly reconsider?

Don't forget the heavily armed Latino gangbangers who were actually tenderly caring for the population of a nursing home in a searing deconstruction of racist assumptions among American television viewers being discussed in academic journals and symposia to this very day.

The third season.

The magic behind “The Walking Dead” is without a doubt the writing. These are brilliant storytellers who clearly know how to flesh out characters and get us hopelessly hooked.

I couldn't care less about Big Brother, but it seems the only currently relevant place to post it: Defiance just got renewed (also Dominion, but whatever). Made my damn day. I scooped the online pop culture journal of record!