“D&D x Magic One-Shot Adventure”
Loading Ready Run mashes up Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons with Magic: The Gathering. And then mashes it up some more. Watch here. (Thanks, Matthew!)
“On Haunted Childhoods, 80s Poltergeists, and the Rage of Female Adolescence”
At Crime Reads, Emily Arsenault writes about poltergeist experiences, Tina Resch and Marcia Goodin. “For any poltergeist case, the first question is always: What was the actual cause? Ghost or supernatural force? An adolescent’s emotional turbulence? A fake? As I spent more time with these cases, however, I […]
“The Sound of Spying”
At Bond Vivant, Cultural Gutter Editor Emeritus Keith Allison writes about “the sound of spying” and James Bond cash-in albums. “When the Bond films proved runaway successes in the 1960s, hundreds of movies were made in dozens of countries, all looking to cash in on the same basic […]
“A Thousand Ways of Seeing a Forest”
In a lovely video, Jacob Geller discusses video games as a practice in translation–not just in language and localization, but of sound and visual experiences. (Thanks, Matthew!)
Junji Ito in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Check out this Animal Crossing: New Horizons island dedicated to the horror works of Junji Ito! (The creator shared some video on Reddit here).
Summer Fun Time Reading and Other Things 2021!
The solstice and the the Fourth of July have passed and summer is definitely upon us, my friends. It’s hot, with cicadas (Brood X and Broods Otherwise), fireflies, fireworks, thunderstorms and humidity released upon my part of the world at least. And I have some suggestions for things […]
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