Games Done Quick (GDQ) is a charity event drawing together the many speedrunning communities of the world to celebrate their craft and raise money for a good cause. “Speedrunning,” for the lamen, involves the practice of expertly racing through a game as fast as possible, sometimes using glitches or strange…

~ I started playing Magic: The Gathering in 2001, in 3rd grade. My brother was in 5th going to 6th and we saw some 7th Edition booster packs and starter decks near the checkout at Wal-Mart. I don’t know what compelled us to pick them out, a random grocery store…

~ essay on the Avatar films, thus far. Avatar (2009) is one of the biggest films ever made. James Cameron’s science fiction epic launched audiences directly into the other-world of Pandora, with visual FX innovations that may never be matched. As a Romantically goofy action-adventure film featuring sky dragons and…

~ a poem about experience. Gaze upon me And what do we see? A lank, a jester, a stranger Walking questions Building & burning a mortal coil Yet, worlds are built into this frame. These soles have crossed between dimensions These hands have cut down demons & dragons These eyes have seen…

~ an essay on the music of Porcupine Tree, a prog rock band. Steven Wilson considers his career a “noble failure.” No, for real — you can hear him say it here. The frontman of the freshly reunited prog rock giant Porcupine Tree speaks in this interview about the reality…

~ a short story (fiction / parody / satire / *all in Minecraft*) Elon stepped out of Twitter headquarters to the sight of losers and sounds of yelping nonsense. A horde of reporters awaiting him. Media parasites… Read more here: https://thresholds-of-transformation.blog/2022/11/17/the-haunting-of-elon-musk/

~ essaying on a trio of “prestige” TV shows I recently watched concurrently, at long last: The Sopranos (1999), Mad Men (2007), and Better Call Saul (2015). Each from a distinct passage within this era now understood as “The Golden Age of Television.” We have just lived through a Golden…

~ a short story / X-Files fan fiction Agents Mulder and Scully sauntered through the woods of West Virginia with spooky sparkles in their eyes. Though their attention continually fell upon each as they haunted the highway forests off the 7, hunting for clues. He wore a long trench and…

~ I have an artistic way of looking at the world. Recently, I’ve been thinking about art, and the fact that there are so many … good pieces of it. I would go as far as to say we are living in a Golden Age of art. And I don’t…