After teaching several courses on game design, I find myself more and more in line with the ethos of Eric Zimmerman's 'The Rules We Break.' For effective, creative, collaborative work to succeed, the participants must learn how to collaborate, how to listen to each other, how to empathize.

I love having a little library at the foot of our front stairs. I love it even more when someone lends beautiful works like this into it.

After reconsideration (and thank you for your feedback!), the syllabus (in order): The Apartment His Girl Friday Safety Last! Police Story Beau Travail Seven Samurai The Searchers Black Girl Pandora’s Box Meshes of the Afternoon The Passion of Joan of Arc Tokyo Story In the Mood for Love

I rarely wax about physical media, but I just watched the Radiance Blu-ray and it is a proper revelation. The way the locations almost float in darkness, the virbrancy of the colors of character and settings, and the uncanny quality of Joan Mocine's paintings. www.radiancefilms.us/products/mes...

Sure, PNC Park is nice, but don’t sleep on FNB.

I don’t know the name of the artist, but may their praises be sung henceforth!

Elite cinematic weekend.

Here is one source I think captures the spirit and questions of the subject: Chase Carter, “How do you read a tabletop RPG book, and other very important questions" www.rascal.news/how-do-you-r...

Finally found the time and opportunity to watch Glazer's 'Birth' (2004) and was thoroughly ravished by the experience. Savides' cinematography, Desplat's score (oh my god), and Kidman's performance. Beginning to think Glazer may be one of my favorite directors.

Elite “this subcommittee meeting is over” energy right here.

Beside the point, I know, but that beautified picture of Thiel is hilarious. By comparison:

Some knuckleheaded mf stole the beautiful Queen Anne’s Lace that was growing at the bottom of my driveway!?!

What radicalized you?

Once a Pussy Posse always a Pussy Posse.

My current scholarship in a nutshell.

Kind of hazy at the Pirates/Nationals game.

Good run! (Transitioning from Horror cinema seminar to Fall I try to Film Studies)

Julia Ducournau rubs a lot of people the wrong way, but the dismissal by so many critics of 'Alpha' as a misguided, untimely, overwrought AIDS allegory baffles me. I find it deeply moving, a horror movie about the monstrosity of love. A perfect conclusion to my grad seminar on horror cinema.

Kentucky Route Zero. No other game explores the impact of industrial extraction and corporate greed on a community, aging, the economics of debt, memory, alcoholism, and, to top it off, the cruel obsessions of game developers. It’s point-and-click Faulkner.

Let me be clear, man, Teri Garr is the fuck. And I would add Gene Wilder and Michael Keaton.

For the sake of argument and to practice our analytic skills, the students in my graduate seminar, "Approaching Horror" took the position that Bong Joon Ho's 'Memories of Murder' (2003) is a work of Folk Horror. The conclusion: It is, in fact, one of the best films in that hallowed tradition.

I had the great fun of co-writing a chapter for E.B. Hunter and Scott Magelssen's 'Enveloping Worlds: Toward a Discourse of Immersive Performance' (link the in the alt text). We just got a glowing review in 'Theatre Journal.' No lie, I blushed when I read this:

A perfect coconut macaroon from Pittsburgh’s Enrico Biscotti Co.

An old Cincinnati friend is visiting. Note both Skyline and Gold Star.

Yes, 'Eve's Bayou' is a monumental achievement, but let's not sleep on Kasi Lemmons' all-time horror sidekick performances:

Now watching.

Guess whose Horror Cinema grad seminar began this week? #LastFourWatched

Never disappoints.

Current Pittsburgh intersection.