Vince Twelve

This is hilarious.

Also, completely enraging.

Listened to part one of this audio drama and it was excellent! Great voice acting and audio production with some really compelling character work!

Oh cool! Bookmarked for my commute!

Screenshot of an adventure game. A man stands in the clearing of a mushroom forest, looking at a pomegranate.

Folks have been testing the first chapter of Gilt this week. Lots of really great feedback. I added a couple of scenes, too. Here’s one I painted on Wednesday. I’m so happy to see people really connecting with the project and enjoying my strange ideas.

Book 8: The Trees by Percival Everett

He writes all the hillbillies as caricatures making the oppressors utterly ridiculous. The punchline of the book is that it is actually horrifying. There’s a chapter in the middle of the book that brings all the yuks to a screeching halt and humbles you.

Looking forward to reading more by Everett.

The cover of The Trees by Percival Everett, “BY THE AUTHOR OF TELEPHONE AND SO MUCH BLUE”. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022. It depicts a list of names.

The Trees by Percival Everett

I have “James” on my list of books that I intend to read but decided to pick this one up by the same author when I saw it on sale. And what a fun ride it is. Some incredible satire here. Buddy-cop-meets-Jim-Crow.

#booksky

Book 7: Unexpected Stories by Octavia Butler

Childfinder also fit snuggly into the Butler oeuvre. Sacrifice as a tool for resistance. Very short and sweet.

Necessary Being had a lot of familiar themes from other Butler stories. Lots of biological imperative vs self-determination discussion. I didn’t see how this story tied into Patternist, but apparently it is a direct prequel to Survivor. So I’m looking forward to that.

The cover of Unexpected Stories by Octavia Butler. It depicts a black woman’s face in profile with her eyes closed. A Kente cloth pattern in black, red, green, and yellow borders the top and bottom of the image.

Unexpected Stories by Octavia Butler

Since I heard that Butler’s disavowed Patternist novel “Survivor” was going to be re-released, I decided to pick this up. I read the Patternist series last year and mostly liked it, and the two stories in this collection connect to that universe.

#booksky 🪐📚💙

The first proof of the dust jacket / hardback version of The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope has arrived! It is a thing of beauty! @jon.inkle.co

"That's why I'm consuming the ONE meat not corrupted by socialism!"

*desperate attempt not to laugh, visible on camera. This take is used anyway.*

"LIVER!"

Ooh, great illustrations!

tubi should have a section of shakespeare movies called “or not tubi” thank you and goodnight

The poster for Kokuho. It depicts a kabuki actor in a striking red kimono against a white background.

Everyone’s talking about the Oscar’s’ snub of No Other Choice, but I just saw two of the best performances of the year in Kokuho. A+ cinematography, too!

Book 6: Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert

I quite dug the more leisurely pacing, the melancholic and poetic prose, and the stodgy conversations. And the pay off was a perfect (and tragic) culmination of the book’s heavy-handed philosophizing.

Really looking forward to more of this series!

The cover of Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert. Depicts a group of white-robed people walking in a vast desert spotted by rocky outcroppings. Lightning is seen in the distant sky. A massive eyeless man’s head is sculpted out of the sand.

Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert

A big change of pace from the sweeping hero’s story of the first book. No knife fights, no worm rides, mostly just throne room audiences and clandestine conspiracies. Lots of philosophizing over Paul’s godhood and prescience as a prison. #booksky 🪐📚💙

Sounds about right.

I remember hearing of Ex112 from Adventure Gamers and eagerly seeking it out, but I don’t remember finishing it. Hmm. I remember really enjoying the atmospheric early stages though! Maybe I should give it another look!

I remember it! It was really unique!

Me with a silver robot doing… something

A green robot possibly playing Third Base somewhere

Purple robot posed on an armature

Green robot pointing at something in a walking motion while suspended in air by an armature

I’m actively in pursuit of finding a mass market publisher for my robot-posing charades game.
Strongly considering a trip to NY toy fair in a couple weeks, but I’m unsure if that will be the best use of my time since I’m planning it so late with no meetings lined up.

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A master of the craft!

Book 5: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle

Book 4: The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin

I went on to read and cherish the whole series. I credit these books, along with my mother’s bedtime reading, for instilling a lifelong love of reading in me and I hope to pass that on to my kids.

Even if they forget the books I read them, I hope some worm their way in and make lasting impressions.

When I read it myself in 5th grade and got to the man with the red eyes I realized that my mother had read this to me years earlier.

The scene had been so evocative that, though I had forgotten most of the book (including the title), the man w the red eyes had buried himself in my subconscious.

The cover of A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle. It depicts several scenes and characters from the book. The kids flying through the void.the three strange women. The kids riding a a centaur-like creature. An ominous building with a huge arched door.

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle

I read this book to each of my children when they were 7 or 8 and just finished reading it to my youngest.

After finishing we discussed the themes and morals and he brought up parallels to the Narnia books we read last year. I will treasure this discussion.

A lot of Vietnam War allegory going on here, and the humans—with one exception—are largely unsympathetic. But the effortless way she builds a realistic alien culture and makes us lament their loss of innocence is another demonstration of Le Guin’s skill as storyteller and observer of human nature.

Forest tells the story of a human colony doing colonial things on an alien planet with a mostly-docile race of intelligent beings. It explores how violence must sometimes be answered with violence as the native beings must abandon their pacifism or submit to slavery and watch their planet killed.