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“AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz…”
I grew up on the suburban doorstep of New York City, with most of my extended family living and working in the city. Some of my earliest memories are of listening to my relatives complaining about the governance of the city – mostly about Giuliani and Pataki in the mid 90s – and about Trump,…
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Nagasaki (Embers series, book 2), M.G. Sheftall
There’s a phrase that I’ve heard used in the aftermath of events when people have been killed: “Say their names.” It’s meant to center the affected human beings in the narrative, rather than giving attention to the person(s) who caused their deaths. I thought about that phrase a lot while reading “Nagasaki: The Last Witnesses.”…
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Do It For Her
My dog may not technically be considered an emotional support animal or a service dog, but she keeps me functional in a way that no therapy or medication has ever been able to. If I don’t look out for her, nobody will. Because of my dog, I have no choice but to get up in…
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Maybe the real friends were the catboys we met along the way.
I’ve always really enjoyed passively consuming Resident Evil content, loved the lore and the characters and the way they all tie together between games. It’s just that I’m a big wuss and can’t play them myself. If things burst through walls at me and throttle me, I’ll cry. I decided a few weeks ago that…
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36 years.
36 years ago today, the Hillsborough Disaster stole the lives of 97 fans of Liverpool Football Club. 97 lives ended – many of them so very young – but all of them too soon, before their time, 97 people who were out for a day of football and camaraderie and joyful life gone just like…
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“Slayers, Every One Of Us,” by Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs
In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires the demons and the forces of darkness and read about two podcasters’ divorce. She is the Suze. I love Buffy the Vampire Slayer. My sister, who inherited our mother’s DVD box set of the series, probably loves it even more.…
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Curse you, John Green …
… for making me want to play Red Dead Redemption 2 again (A Like Letter). If you were to ask my very best friend in the world to tell you the two most important things to know about me, the odds are pretty good that the answers you would receive would be “anxious as hell”…
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It’s all fun and games in Mike Drucker’s new memoir
I was vaguely aware of Mike Drucker as somebody whose BlueSky posts about video games I’d spotted in passing, someone who was followed by a lot of accounts across a variety of niches that I also followed but whom I didn’t really know anything about. I’m a simple creature – when I hear the phrase…
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