Video Games

Saturday Night. Union Square, New York City Best Buy.

Nintendo spontaneously decides to launch their new stereoscopic 3D handheld video game system, 3DS, so that they had an excuse to close down the Best Buy and deny my very urgent need for its public bathroom.

DAMN YOU NINTENDO!

After [...]

As I tremble in stupid anticipation of my impending epidural, my mind turns to the last time my imagination was traumatized by an impending medical procedure.

When I was around 7 years old, my father and I stopped one night to grab some tacos at Taco Bell. A week or so [...]

The world to me, most days, seems like the old NES video game, Paperboy – where my attempt to complete any simple task is thwarted by people who are not actual people, but rather moving pixels with only enough crudely constructed artificial intelligence to make themselves an obstacle. RC Cars, [...]

image copyright Telltale Games and LucasArts

You know…there was a time when my mind wasn’t always the near perfectly functioning abstract steel trap that it is today.

Yes…there was indeed a time I would have never thought of putting a bomb in a pair of frilly pink bloomers left to dry [...]