Recently got through playing Esoteric Ebb, which was excellent. We are truly living in the golden age of Planescape: Torment inspired CRPGs.
Paul
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“Why do you think I have chosen solitude? Commerce with men is a dangerous business. The only way I have found to avoid being betrayed is to live alone.”
Lanterns ep 1 - The writer who used to work for the CIA wrote a plot about an alien suicide bomber? I'm shocked, shocked, I say.
Thoroughly enjoyed the One Hundred Years adaptation, but Netflix withholding the last episode for weeks is absolute bullshit.
Very bold of Ted Lasso this week to have a B story in which Rebecca is forced to question her internalised sexism, only to deem it right and the show to portray her as both victim and correct party.
Hills I will die on - In the Mood for Love is overrated, and Chungking Express is the better film.
Was at a cousin's wedding yesterday, scrub up pretty well if I do say so myself.
Started watching the adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude since the second half is out this week. Rather good.
Wilson says of Tennyson, "not particularly fashionable at the moment," and it must be a long moment, because it feels like that statement encompasses my whole lifetime.
It used to be "shut up, Paul, no one wants to talk about Homer", and now it's "shut up, Paul, everyone is talking about Homer."
JCO proving there that she has never read the back section of an academic journal.
In which I offer blood to the dead to drink to perform the nekyia in order to ask Richmond Lattimore for his hot take.
Musk strongly objecting to the very well-documented fact Banks was a socialist while also completely oblivious to the fact that he's basically Joiler Veppers.
The ignorance of the Right when it comes to the classics has perhaps never been more visible than in their obsession with whiteness, when the Greeks themselves did not even see themselves as white.
Blair thinks all the country's problems can be solved by giving lots of money to tech companies and arms dealers? I'm shocked. Shocked, I say. 🙄
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I have nothing to add to the latest inane genre taxonomy bollocks other than to say my first thought was that Doctor Faustus and The Holy Sinner are Manntasy.
This year has been terrible, but a new, surprise Neurosis album with the mighty Aaron Turner replacing Scott Kelly makes it a little bit better.
yet the bounty returns each daybreak, to my surprise, to my surprise and betrayal, yes, both at once.
Shocked to hear war criminal and noted fan of illegal wars, Tony Blair, says we should get involved in another illegal war. Well, not that shocked.
Books I'm looking forward to this year - NYRB is publishing a translated collection of Grossman's war reporting for Red Star (including some pre-censored articles), including his dispatches from Stalingrad that informed his later novels.
No doubt the CIA is just itching to once again fund and train a new Iranian secret police to torture people who don't support Shah 2.0.
Just do yourself a favor and press play.
Buddy Guy: Tiny Desk Concert
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Sad to hear of the passing of Tatjana Wood. While Alan has always got the lion's share of the credit, her colours, as well as Bissette's fantastic panel layouts, are a large part of what makes the Swamp Thing run so great.
There's one thing that sticks in my mind these days more than ever - "Yet the wholly enlightened earth is radiant with triumphant calamity."
Any day that you wake up to discover Reform has lost is a good day.