All entries written in January, 2012
January 18, 2012 at 12:00 am · Filed under Personal, Thoughts
As an independent bookseller whose livelihood depends on fighting for users’ continually harder-to-get attention, I can’t exactly afford to shut this site down for a day in protest, but I want to make it clear that I think SOPA is a terrible, terrible thing that needs to be stopped. Read up on it and get involved however you can, even if all you can do is spread the word. Freedom of speech is, in my opinion, America’s best feature–something we can be proud of even on our darkest days–and we would do ourselves a grave disservice if we let our leaders curtail or limit it for any reason.
January 12, 2012 at 11:41 pm · Filed under Announcements
I’ve already announced this on Facebook and elsewhere, but it bears repeating here, obviously: all three School Kids SG volumes are now available on Kindle! Check out the store for ordering information–this is a great way to read my books for less money and with greater convenience (apparently, you can get Kindle on your iPhone/iPad? That seems worth mentioning.) Buy them, read them, tell me what you think!
January 11, 2012 at 11:33 pm · Filed under Reviews, Thoughts
I’m sorry, but this game kind of sucks.
I wanted to like it–I really, really did. The Penny Arcade guys seemed to like it (though they didn’t write any follow-up notes when they finished it, if they finished it), and it got good reviews pretty much across the board. For a while, I thought I was crazy–what was I missing? How could so many people say that this game returns Sonic to his roots when it has more in common with Sonic Unleashed than Sonic and Knuckles? How can they say that Sonic’s “annoying” friends are downplayed in this game when they are, in fact, constantly present, and the few levels in which they are playable seem to be uniformly awful? How can anyone claim Generations is the best new Sonic game in years when it attempts to redo a stage from the worst Sonic game of all time (Sonic 2k6) and leaves me liking the original version better?
Keep reading….
January 3, 2012 at 2:53 pm · Filed under Personal, Thoughts
Hopefully. I was trying to get back in the habit of updating more or less every week for a while there, but I’ve been down and out since mid-December after an unfortunate bout of appendicitis. Are there fortunate bouts of appendicitis? I doubt it.
I can’t tell if it’s comforting or depressing that the site still managed to amass 1,024 spam comments (all caught in the moderation queue) while I was recovering. I know I’m not as prolific as any given high-schooler on Tumblr, but I’d still appreciate some real feedback now and then…assuming I could even find it if it existed, in this sea of watch ads.
