EQ2: The City of Mist

The City of Mist is an island in the north of the Kunzar Jungle, full of heroic skeletons and golems and some bosses that, though the zone has been entirely redesigned from EQ1’s zone of elevators (of death) and invisible sky ramps (of death and gravity); EQ2’s is a ziggurat-shaped ramp system leading to the … Read more

No Country for Old Men

We went and saw this… disturbing movie today. I’m not sure I would call it a movie. Maybe a war between the antagonist and the movie, as if the antagonist had decided that conventional ways of telling the story weren’t going to end well for him, and so he fought back, changed things around. This … Read more

Dear Chrysler

Dear Chrysler: Thank you for allowing me to beta test your “2007 PT Cruiser”. Though the car certainly seems polished, I have some questions that perhaps you can answer? First, the cost. Is this car free to drive? Your sales associate kept talking about a $300 monthly fee over four years, or a $20,000 “lifetime” … Read more

EQ2: More Kunzark Adventures

DINA: Oh, it was a busy night. We’re sitting here in Snake-Eye’s camp, and I have old Lizard Breath sitting next to me. DERA: … I don’t think that swim you took in the Venom Flow river left you smelling like sunshine either, Sewer Skin. DINA: Snake Eye is a huge hunter, totally vicious, a … Read more

SF: Devo and Lloyd Biggle Jr.

Via boingboing, I found a great LA Weekly profile of Devo co-founder Mark Motherbaugh’s turn from New Wave post-punk icon to noted, “quirky”, soundtrack and jingle writer for his omni-art creative emporium, ‘Mutato’. That swept me back thirty years to those dusty shelves in the back of the Uxbridge Free Public Library’s fiction stacks, and … Read more