Saw some Gen Zers shotgunning beers (and Surfsides) on their deck and my faith has been restored.
Bobby™
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🕹️ Spent 10 years as game design and media professor; now making games for novel hardware 🎢 Theme park scholar 📘 Co-author of Storytelling for Video Games Using Bitsy: A Guide for Aspiring Designers 👑 CLT resident
Watched To Live and Die in L.A. for the first time in nearly two decades and boy howdy is that a great film.
American Airlines announcing “more premium seating” just means “less economy seating”
Good news! The bookstore ordered a text for my intro class. It's not the textbook I adopted and built the syllabus around, but at least it's a textbook!
When I come to power there will be no more speakerphone. People can’t be trusted to use it correctly and it shall be taken away.
The best part about buying old used board games is seeing old score keeping pads. Who is Becky? Did she beat Keith regularly? And where is the Warwick hotel this pad came from?
My new edited book is out today! And it's open access so you can all read it for free! I'm so excited to share what all these amazing authors have to say about work that crosses design research and fan studies. I'll be highlighting chapters over the next few days. www.emerald.com/books/edited...
Bridging Design and Fandom: Fan Studies and Design Research in Conversation
Fandom studies and design are both relatively young disciplines both of which are familiar with interdisciplinarity, and with co-production and participati
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Rewatching the 2004 Adult Swim Christmas ad-bumpers with MF DOOM should cover most of your needs youtu.be/h0W05mDljPw?...
MF DOOM - Christmas With DOOM 2004-12-24 [Adult Swim] (720p Upscale)
YouTube video by MF DOOM REMASTERED
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Ready for your Avengers Doomsday homework? Marvel has released a watchlist of 15 movies and TV shows you should watch before December 18 rolls around. https://bit.ly/3UmhwmS
My neighbors are listening to Shaboozey and there’s nothing I can do about it.
New Yorker, overheard: “you went all the way to Chicago and didn’t try the pizza!?”
When I was a kid, I had assumed by this point in my life I would have had multiple trash can lid trays of fish heads for dinner.
I watched and enjoyed the television program "Ride or Die" on Amazon Prime.
Q: On the economy - what do you plan to do to make North Carolina more affordable? MICHAEL WHATLEY: *walks away* NARRATOR: He wouldn't take Qs on that even though we sent Whatley Qs more than 24 hours ago looking for specific plans. We have not been given a response beyond 2 paragraphs on his site
ANNOUNCING: our next Special Issue! With our Editors hard at work on our first Special Issue (Disney Motherhood, coming soon), we here at the International Journal of Disney Studies do not sleep. And so, we are pleased to announce MICKEY AND MINNIE AT 100: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
International Journal of Disney Studies Special Issue CFP: Mickey and Minnie at 100 | H-Net
Call for Papers - Special Issue for The International Journal of Disney Studies, which examines the Walt Disney Company, an international media conglomerate that impacts our global culture. This inter...
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Some piece of shit has uploaded the halftime music from NBA Hangtime to YouTube and is claiming it as their own. It really sucks that YouTube has no normal process for handling shit like this.
“Trans-spatial narratives of Disney Imagineering in the society of explorers and adventurers“ may be my favorite thing I’ve ever written. If you want to read it, I know a guy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Trans-spatial narratives of Disney Imagineering in the society of explorers and adventurers
The Society of Explorers and Adventurers (S.E.A.) is a trans-spatial narrative found in the Walt Disney Company theme parks that extends the storytelling of these parks with a connected narrative a...
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Did you know that the US teamed up with Panamanian Border Patrol to illegally seize the little science town of Gamboa (a famous hot spot for field biology, and our home for the past many years)? If you don't want a gringo sponsored ICE training facility in your fav science town, share this around!
bitsy is turning 10! to celebrate i've created an archive of every released version of bitsy, and i'm hosting an extra-special, extra-long 100th #bitsyjam :D blog.adamledoux.net/posts/2026-0...
10 years of bitsy: announcing the bitsy archive and #bitsyjam 100!
every version of bitsy is now online + the last #bitsyjam
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I remember a Dean once telling me that I shouldn’t be taking two days off in preparation of being the best man in a wedding because “this is a serious job now.”