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The Poetry of Urine, and Other News
A physician examines his uric haul. Don’t ever say I haven’t done anything for you. I found you this, this, this … lovely thing … this meditation on urine by Dr. Jonathan Reisman, which I will aver to...
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A Sip of This Cream, and Other News
Thomas Frognall Dibdin. Nonalternative fact: our poetry editor, Robyn Creswell, is also an accomplished translator. In a new interview with Jessie Chaffee, he offers some of his favorite metaphors for...
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Walden: The Video Game, and Other News
Finally, a chance to experience the magic of Walden firsthand! I like Walden as much as the next guy. My problem with it—my problem with all books—is that it’s just such a passive experience for the...
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He Just Ate a Pastrami Sandwich, and Other News
Ilya Repin, Duel Between Onegin and Lenski, from Alexander Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin, 1899. I went to a party this weekend. It was boring. People talked about books all night, and no one threw a...
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Show a Little Respect for Milk, and Other News
A Dairy Queen ad from the fifties. The dairy is the locus of the sublime. Whatever it is you want from this world, whatever unnamable thing beyond the stratum of rational thought, you will find it in...
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When Lore Bores
Video-game developers continue to search for the golden ratio of game play to storytelling. Still from Day of the Tentacle Remastered, an updated version of the 1993 game. My first video-gaming...
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Fireworks: On Kenneth Anger and The Legend of Zelda
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. One of the most provocative sequences of Kenneth Anger’s career appears in an early short film (and my favorite), Fireworks (1947): a sailor opens his fly to...
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We’re More Ghosts Than People
Screenshot from Red Dead Redemption 2. I don’t find myself investing much in the kingdom of heaven. It has always been this way for me, even as a child. I prayed often, sometimes the requisite five...
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I’m High on World of Warcraft
The city of Thunder Bluff in World of Warcraft. Screenshot from the game. It was about four in the morning when the warrior decided to leave our group. He’d started weeping, apparently, into his mic. I...
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Real Play
Autumn, Sims 2. Courtesy of Lucie-Bluebird Lexington. Licensed under CC BY 2.0. I played The Sims a lot as a preteen. It was the only computer game I ever liked that didn’t involve horses, and it lived...
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