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Can I have my life back, please? Yes, you *can* buy just Portal, through Steam. My advice? DON’T. Not if you have somewhere to be. (omg what a great puzzle game…) I’m on level 17/19. 15 was awful. 16 had nice guns talking in cute voices…

We gathered at midnight well, 11pm, to get our hands on Guitar Hero 3. Actually. I’m not sure how I ended up there, then. It’s not as if GH3 won’t be all over every store but, when we were in Gamespot this morning getting .hack/G.U. 2 for my son, I somehow walked out of there … Read more

My son’s laptop started shutting off for no reason last week. For a guy who spends as much time online as he does, that’s a tragedy. And a tragedy for me, too — because I could just see how repairing the laptop could cost more than the laptop was worth, and nothing bugs me as … Read more

So every month or so, my sister comes in from New York. I meet her at the train station in New Haven, we spend the night at my apartment and then she and her daughter and I and my son all pile in the VW and head to New Hamster Hampshire to visit our stepmother … Read more

Well, my last concert trip didn’t turn out so well. Blue Oyster Cult was a real disappointment, a dead band. Will Jethro Tull be the same? I can’t not go. I spent five years learning to play flute like Ian Anderson, yet I’ve never seen him in concert. He used to show up occasionally at … Read more