Richard Dansky's Blog, page 37
July 20, 2010
New Review Up At Fantasy
Jeff Vandermeer's
Third Bear
, which is not about what you think it is about.
July 13, 2010
Bring On The Bad Guy
My article over at The Escapist on creating videogame villains is up. Bonus points if you can call where I got the title :-)
http://tinyurl.com/24nyd7g
http://tinyurl.com/24nyd7g
July 11, 2010
Upcoming Coolness at Coquette
Wednesday the 14th at 2:30 they're having the first annual Waiter Races at the estimable Coquette brasserie in North Hills. If you like good food, good wine, or waiters in full Bo Jackson Tecmo Bowl mode with full serving trays, you should be there.
Chocolate at the Borders
There's a ritual to my return from abroad, whenever work sends me there. I check the box on my customs form that asks if I'm bringing food back into the country. (I check all the other ones "No".) The Customs Official who processes me asks what kind of food. I say "Chocolate." They write "chocolate" on the form, and wave me through to baggage claim so I can get my bag, pass through another checkpoint, recheck my bag, and then hopefully head for home. (The exception is when I'm flying back fro...
July 6, 2010
Paris and Peoplewatching
If there's one thing Paris is incomparable for, it's peoplewatching. This, I suspect, is largely due to the fact that the Parisians simply don't give a damn what anyone thinks about them. And so you get guys in tracksuits printed all over with giant images of Bob Marley's head, worn unironically, and wannabe teenaged badasses giggling over their ice cream cones, and elegantly dressed businessmen with two fingers jammed up nostrils to the knuckle, and fat dudes in lavender Elvis t-shirts ridin...
July 3, 2010
File this one under "things that are good"
Glendronach 15 Revival
Even if the label does make it sound more like a candy bar than a whisky. Near as I can tell, it has notes of chocolate, toffee, vanilla, and a hard candy shell.
Even if the label does make it sound more like a candy bar than a whisky. Near as I can tell, it has notes of chocolate, toffee, vanilla, and a hard candy shell.
July 2, 2010
Twitter is overloaded
Was there a soccer game today or something?
Every Gawker Blind Item Ever
Someone famous and married in Hollywood is actually gay.Someone famous in Hollywood, but probably not as famous as they think they are, is doing drugs.Someone far more famous than they should be in Hollywood is a genuinely horrible person with a huge sense of self-importance.Let me know if I missed one...
July 1, 2010
Attention NECON Folks
Who's interested in an official Loyal Order of the Staggering Squirrel t-shirt?
