Here’s another weird editorial type hybrid article thing masquerading as a news piece. I swear I’ll explain myself sometime this weekend… Also, this piece curiously occurs front page beneath the fold and is continued on page two, which I feel is undue placement. Associate News Editor Yukon Damov wrote an actual news piece on the [...]
Here’s my latest “news” piece written for the newspaper. I say “news” because it’s not, strictly speaking, news. Rather, it’s an editorial dressed up with certain trappings of news writing. Sure, I consulted a source and slipped in quotes from him here and there, but the goal of this particular article wasn’t so much to [...]
Hopefully the impressive turnout at yesterday’s first open writer’s meeting of the new year will lead to a more diverse variety of contributors to the newspaper in the coming weeks. It’s been three years since the last truly packed open meeting, and I’m more than happy to see ledes go out to more than just [...]
Here are 10 games I played in 2011. Like this blurb, each is fewer than 140 characters. Honestly, who has the patience for a detailed list? Minecraft: An endlessly amusing world of possibility and a brilliant example of emergent storytelling. VVVVVV: The most thorough exploration of a single mechanic presented with charming design and masterfully [...]
Here’s something I wrote last week for a magazine project I’m currently spearheading. There’ll hopefully be more on this later as it seems to have stalled temporarily, but I’m posting it now because a) I haven’t done anything else noteworthy, and b) I should probably bury the academic diatribe that was my most recent posting. [...]
