Rise from your Gwave
It is the Sega Genesis version that had the slightly clipped opening lines, rather than the arcade cabinet that I remember from my youth. But I definitely fed more than few quarters into machine that looks like this.
Benjamin Espen
The Sphere
The new music venue in Las Vegas called The Sphere [although not Crichton's Sphere, a good deal on Amazon right now] was described by one of my Twitter mutuals as "the opposite of a sensory deprivation tank".
In the subset of humanity described as having Sensory
WBH Weekly Digest 2023-10-20: Folk Americana
Over the Garden Wall is akin to Dante's Divine Comedy, but told through natively American imagery. I'll be showing this to my kids tonight.
Friend of the blog Alexander Palacio has written several excellent threads on the Lord of the Rings, which you can find through
WBH Digest 2023-10-13: Pay Me XM Denarii or I'll...
This is a useful contrast between G. K. Chesterton and H. P. Lovecraft. The word "absurd" means very different things in their works.
JD Cowan writes about Quake. That game has a special place in my heart, as it was my real introduction to the internet. I played
WBH Digest 2023-09-29: Songs From the Stars
Sometimes things just come together. For this With Both Hands Digest, we have an extensive set of reflections occasioned by Norman Spinrad's alternative history novel The Iron Dream.
Ian Nol: The Iron Dream Viewed from the Right
Norman Spinrad was the prototype of today's very online
It's Dangerous to Go Alone, Take This
The best one sentence review of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild that I ever saw is that is successfully recapitulates the feeling of a child finding a stick and setting off into the woods for an adventure.
Short controlled bursts
And don't forget the sound.