Today has been an exciting Internet day for me. And when you’re unemployed (thanks, [name withheld]!), an exciting Internet day may as well be an exciting in-real-life day. Count me among the gleeful. I’m too blessed to be stressed, etc. I’m currently coming down off a high from hearing one of my all-time favorite bands play their first show in...

I’m no great judge of art, but I feel strongly enough about the things I like to lay down pronouncements like this one: The best art engages the parts of your brain that you purposefully stow during your day-to-day. It holds up your choices and circumstances and noiselessly slides them in front of the projector, so that you can’t see anything but the creator’s...

As we’ll tell you at the beginning of this episode, Pat and I last month recorded a piece of audio that we absolutely won’t release as a proper Jurassic Hour. Because, you know, our quality control is so on point? Only the best for you guys, right? Right. Fortunately, the two of us sat down last week to record something much more listenable. Listen in...

Top men and women at the newspaper where I work are putting together a staff yard sale. It’s tentatively scheduled for a weekend in May at our North George Street parking lot, and I will be involved. It’ll be my first yard sale and the first time I’ve offered to part with any of my stuff since 11th grade, when I sold a bunch of crusty Genesis carts...

Jasper Byrne, AKA the one-man studio who is Superflat Games, recently published his first “you can purchase this” kind of game ever. Well, excluding his days as a teenager trying his hand at creating adventure titles for the Euro-chic AMIGA computer/console. We have an interview with him in the next podcast, and I’ve spoken at length about his...