Last week publisher/destroyer of worlds Activision announced they were discontinuing the Guitar Hero franchise. It’s a strange thing to hear, though not a particularly surprising one – Activision’s way of handling a successful game is to glut the market with as much of it as possible, and in the few years since original developer Harmonix [...]
03.06State of Play
Yesterday’s post about my frustration with the games in my collection (and, to an extent, games in general) has had me thinking a lot about the games I actually am playing at the moment, and if they speak at all to a change in what I’m looking for when it comes to how I spend [...]
Sleater-Kinney were (and still are, despite no longer existing) the sort of band I loved with desperate abandon – loud, messy, and smarter than they were ever supposed to be. I came on board with One Beat, their next-to-last record and one of the first actual protest albums to the then-new Iraq War nonsense. After [...]
I don’t go home for Thanksgiving. Ever. It’s not a holiday I like, it’s not something I can afford, and I’d rather save my travel time and money for the one just around the corner where people give me things. So while my girlfriend goes home to ever-hoppin’ Huntsville to see her family, I stay [...]