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Games I played/completed in 2023
January 2, 2024 at 9:46 PM
Here to report Armored Core VI is unfuckinmissable. 2023 has been completely absurd for games
November 21, 2023 at 3:57 PM
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Samuel Delaney describes himself as a "boring old Marxist," which, as boring old Marxist ourselves, we think slaps. But there's nothing boring about Babel-17 (1966). A poet starship captain, a cat-man pilot, and space throuples? Sign us up!
Episode 109: Babel-17 by Better Read than Dead: Literature from a Left Perspective
We embark on a cosmic journey through Samuel Delany's 1966 sci-fi gem, Babel-17. This novel by the brilliant self-described “boring old Marxist” (the best kind of person!) has it all: a telepathi...
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November 12, 2023 at 3:55 PM
In October I watched 47 horror films in theaters and another 36 at home. Printed em out and arranged favorites by hand, culture-passed-thru-objects style.

Full ranking: boxd.it/q2krq/detail
November 6, 2023 at 2:58 PM
Haul this week 🎃
October 26, 2023 at 6:46 PM
@criterion.bsky.social when will it enter the collection
October 24, 2023 at 6:46 PM
To my @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social horror friends—just compiled some longterm homework: every film show in the last decade of their 24-hr October marathons. See you Saturday!
Film list: MUSIC BOX OF HORRORS | 24-hour Marathons, 2013-2023
Every October, Music Box Theatre in Chicago holds a 24-horror marathon of horror films. This list compiles every film shown at the event during the last decade*, sorted by their original programming��...
boxd.it
October 18, 2023 at 6:10 PM
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September 27, 2023 at 4:09 AM
July 27, 2023 at 3:19 PM
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incredible quality of life improvement for chicago bluesky
July 25, 2023 at 12:12 AM
Had wanted to parse thru my mixed thoughts on Oppy using its main inspiration — evidently I was not alone here
July 24, 2023 at 9:15 PM
going on a weeklong spiritual retreat later this month
July 10, 2023 at 4:41 PM
an issue i’ve discovered w/ watching every mission: impossible in release order is you end up watching a lot of the mission: impossible movies
July 9, 2023 at 10:58 PM
online chess ELO is hilarious these days b/c cracking 1500 rapid on chess.com still feels like taking the SAT but you can probably pass 2000 on lichess.org if you don't play crossfaded or alt-tab constantly. over the board, a child ranked 900 will crush you
July 9, 2023 at 5:22 PM
FFXVI discourse light on the fact that you get to hang out w/ this guy and read all his tomes, grind literacy & worldliness
July 7, 2023 at 9:41 PM