Pinback’s Cool of the Day: BALLOONS
Pinback Today a bunch of hot air balloons flew over our place! Like, close enough where the people in them were saying, not yelling, “Mornin'” and taking pictures of us while…
theoreticals and essays
Who Framed Wreck-It Ralph? (As A Launching Point To An Arcade Post)
Ice Cream Jonsey There is a movie in development called Wreck-It Ralph. I hope it makes a billion dollars and everyone involved had that moment where they go see it in a theater…
Humbled.
My game Cryptozookeeper won some awards last weekend. There were many categories — you can see the list of winners here, the transcript of the on-line ceremony here, and the…
Understatement
Five years is entirely too long to spend on a single video game. I’ll never do so again. It was April of 2006 when I took SHELL.HUG from the Internet…
Yahoo!’s Sign-in Protection Really Sets My Mind At Ease
The first time Yahoo! behaved like childish cunts to me, it was 1998. I had just gotten a new (to me) car. I wanted to show my friends a photo…
Food Pinback Could Eat Everyday: The Philly Cheesesteak
BONUS FOOD I COULD EAT EVERY DAY + WALMART-BASED RECIPE:Â Philly Cheesesteak Look at that picture above. That’s the banner for the website of South Philly Cheesesteaks, a chain of…
The Three Greatest Spielberg Films
Steven Spielberg has made a lot of movies. Some of them were mailed-in cash grabs, some of them were impressive pieces of moviemaking, and some were among the greatest movies…
Inglourious Basterds Review + DIRECTOR FIGHT
Inglourious Basterds begins in brilliant Tarantino style, with a long, drawn out, very quiet scene where the dialogue carries the show, the tension building throughout, until you can’t barely take…
Cancelling Xbox 360 Gold Membership Is A Fucking Horror Show
Three months ago my brother wanted to play some stupid baseball game with me over the Xbox 360. Well, I never got around to getting the game. I thought we…
The Stolen Green Chile Recipe
“Stolen!” –Â Mike Martin, The Mike Martin Travel Agency We will look back upon these days, where I pirated the new Third Eye Blind album and cooked up green chiles,…