I am obsessive. I am a perfectionist. But most of the energy has been sucked into the almost endless time spiral of video game simulations. I remember years and years lost to the Madden franchise, long nights adjusting my franchise with surgeon’s tools, plowing through games just to see the team’s progression, and finally using […]

We, all of us, seek nothing from our lives but World Peace, I know. But where all others have failed, we might yet succeed if we follow my very simple plan. Pulling all of Earth’s assets to one single objective, we need only construct a sufficient enough rocketship in which I will be placed and […]

“Better than Mary Poppins, but not as creepy.” That’s how Todd Robbins asks audience members to describe the spectacle they had just witnessed at the end of Play Dead, the new stage fright-fest written and directed by the smaller, quieter half of Penn & Teller. Indeed, although there is an ethereal elegance that runs throughout […]

To pursue with whatever vigor desirous, at any given moment, any activity or object that would result in the most personally acceptable ratio of pleasure to malady, accepting responsiblity for any potential miscalculation, the only necessary external condition being that one’s actions not directly deprive another of the same pursuit.