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20 Years of 'Buffy'

BtVS turns 20 this month (NYT link). An overview of the relevance and influence of the show and many of the key actors' post-Buffyverse careers. (I did not know that Danny Strong was a co-creator of Empire.)

Posted March 6, 2017

Arrival (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

I didn't care for the movie but Jóhann Jóhannsson's soundtrack is weirdly calming and good to write code to. Reminds me a little of Peter Gabriel's Last Temptation Of Christ soundtrack.

Posted March 6, 2017

State of JavaScript 2017

I have opinions on this. But I'll spare you.

Posted March 3, 2017

Inside the Weird, Industry-Shaking World of Donald Glover

Wired's profile of our new Renaissance man. Also: I can't stop listening to the new album.

Posted March 2, 2017

Hamilton, by Joe Posnanski

A sports writer takes his teenage daughter to see America's favorite new musical.

Posted March 1, 2017

Solid State, the new album from Jonathan Coulton

The new JoCo album has a companion graphic novel written by Matt Fraction (Hawkeye, Sex Criminals, et al.) and drawn by Albert Monteys.

Posted February 28, 2017

“Memory Maze,” an Attack On Titan story

Gorgeous and horrifying (as you'd expect).

Posted February 28, 2017

You Should Write A Song About That, a new musical project from the Doubleclicks

A fun and ingenious new project from our favorite PDX-based nerd-folk sister act. They interview a fellow creator, post the interview as a podcast, then write and record a song about that conversation.

Posted February 27, 2017

Homestuck in review: The Internet’s first masterpiece

Saved from last year: a lengthy review of the epic webcomic series that launched a thousand fanart Tumblrs. (tl;dr: you had to be there.)

Posted February 27, 2017

Inform 7

The latest release of the Inform programming language for text-based adventure games. File under "Things I Wish I Had More Time For."

Posted February 27, 2017