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Happy Mothers’ Day! If I were more on the ball, today’s blog entry would be about my mom and my grandmothers and what wonderful women they are(/were). But I’m not, so it’s not. Instead, I decided to list some of my favourite games. Now, the trouble with most games is you need stuff to play [...]

What the subject line says. (Except maybe for the “revenge” part.)

New Year’s never feels like a new beginning to me. I think it’s a combo of being Jewish and being a student: both the lunar year and the school year start in the fall. The real new year for me is the solemn liturgy demanding I reflect on my actions of the past twelve months [...]

OK, I lied – these have nothing to do with New Year’s, except for the fact that I have lots more free time around this time of year and my parents like to watch movies, so I have a lot more filmic contributions this time. Porco Rosso (Studio Ghibli, 1992) –

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One of my very favourite short stories is “A Study In Emerald”, by Neil Gaiman, which speculates on what might happen if the famous Victorian detective, Sherlock Holmes, had lived in the same universe as the famous Victorian horror-demonic-god-creature, Cthulhu. I’m not such a big fan of Lovecraft myself, but, if you’ve looked at half [...]

Eighteen things I miss about SNES 16-bit video games:

So if you want to understand this post at all, you need to remember Guess Who. A board game only fractionally more challenging than Hungry Hungry Hippos, it involved a flat of little doors for each player. Each door had a picture of a “character” with a unique set of features – blue eyes, brown [...]