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A few months ago a friend of ours loaned us the new Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. I’d played GTA before so I was already familiar with all the graphic violence, misogynistic sexuality and straight up racist stereotyping you hear so much about. For those of you wondering why a gal like me would even [...]

Best. Run. Evar! Worlds collide in the most interesting ways …

I must roll a bigger Katamari for the King of All Cosmos (even though it’s his fault that all the stars have disappeared. How Freudian). My heart’s desire is to make enough beautiful and majestic Katamaris to fill the sky back up with stars so I can  make The King (and the modular Japanese family [...]

Ever envy the birds and their graceful giss? Join them with flyguy! click anywhere on the image below – and make sure your speakers are turned on, the music is lovely: I absolutely love Flyguy! It’s so playful, so inspired, so dharma! A truly brilliant use of flash animation that is both mindfully aware and [...]

“The orb of the undead is filling the streets with zombies,” says my boyfriend, from the couch, just moments ago. He is playing Baldur’s Gate on the new PS2 (our early xmas gift from dad). This is music to my ears after the shame of this historic past week.

Screenshot from “The Virtual Hallucinations Building” in Second Life. Courtesy of Wagner James Au “I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men. All men are invisible to one another. Experience used to be called The Soul. Experience is an invisibility of man to man is at the same [...]