So it's busy, and the furloughs aren't making life any easier, as people are now gone more days, but still must produce the same amount of work.... Here's a r eview of the game which contains a mention of narratology -- it's good to see other English majors writing reviews these days, and makes for a nice change from the standard review of 'Best game of the year!!!11!!'
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(Which I'm not doing particularly well at today -- turns out that if you mess up the proportions of yew and wormwood in incense, it aggravates your lungs something fierce.... Xbox 360 gave me the Red Ring of Death; my DVD player has decided to suddenly stop playing back discs; and my old iPod will not mount, play back music, or turn on. I suspect some strange electronic conspiracy.
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If some kid in your class was missing a finger, you could be damned sure it was because of a Tonka truck.... GI Joe taught a generation of children that the fastest way to solve any problem was an orchestrated military response.... Even the doctor would tell you how cool it was that your intestine was now fortified with a battery of M-16s.
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This made me shake my head and laugh to myself. Oh, I wish this weren't true.
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Yesterday, J and I went down to the Stone brewery, home of Arrogant Bastard Ale, where we planned to drink a lot of great beer, and listen to Wil Wheaton read from his new book, The Happiest Days of our Lives.... For the last couple of days, I'd been trying to think of what cool thing I could bring Wil, and thought about maybe doing a painting of him and his wife -- but the only photo on his site of the two of them was in Halloween kit, as zombies.... He surprised me by recognizing me and thanking me; we chatted a bit about writing and art. I told him about having wanted to bring him a cool painting of him and Anne, but they both totally jumped on the zombie portrait idea.
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