My father’s ghost is haunting an Animal Crossing village. Fifteen years ago, you could not save video games to the cloud: you kept the ones you liked on a memory card, and sometimes, when that card ran out of space and you couldn’t afford to buy another one, some of…

There is no practical reason anyone should ever be able to win a one-on-one fight playing as Ganondorf in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. He is a disastrously slow character in a game centered around mobility, he has no defense against ranged attacks except to pray that his basic block will…

Ever since the assassination of JFK, Texas has been prime real estate for plots, ponderings, and general hokum, so I was not surprised to find what I hoped would be my new favorite book wasting away in a Houston antique store. The Conspiracy Reader is an anthology of articles from…

Contrary to observation, Texas has not thawed out. Hundreds of thousands of people still do not have clean water to drink. While power has been restored to most, an affordable bill is far from guaranteed in many parts of the state, and infrastructural necessities from water mains to power lines…

You may have noticed that I haven’t published very much over the past year. The pandemic has made many things that were easy difficult and things that were difficult next to impossible. Writing is among these things for many people, myself included; entering the second year of being trapped indoors…

I have two devices on which I play video games: a Nintendo Switch and a low-to-moderately powerful laptop. This puts me in the privileged position of being a gamer who is able to keep up with modern trends from the relative safety of machines that couldn’t run most big-budget AAA…

I didn’t have anywhere to live during the 2016 primaries, but if I’d had a permanent place of residence I would’ve definitely cast my vote for Bernie Sanders. I intend to make the same decision in 2020; I’ve been a type 1 diabetic since I was a year old, and…

Notes from a neophyte spiritualist — I shall have to train my senses, make them at once stronger and more delicate, at one moment tough, at another fragile; in a word, more lucid. I shall hear with my sense of sight and with my skin; I shall cover myself with eyes. Everything, even judgment, will be…

I’m working on a much longer piece about 6ix9ine right now, but I wanted to take a break from that project to briefly discuss something about recent developments in the Daniel Hernandez/6ix9ine case. Namely: the media has been doing a dog shit job of reporting on recent developments in the…