Kevin McGee

Sign in window reads “Sorry we are closed today due to short people. We will be back on Wednesday.”

Randy Newman: *nods approvingly*

I watched a ton of 80s slasher movies last year, and one surprising thing that kept coming up was characters doing Bogart impressions.

This was broadcast the same week as Bloody Sunday in Alabama, when cops beat the crap out of 600 civil rights marchers on Edmund Pettus Bridge.

(Crenna. Lord.)

There were some sad cases there. One prolific commenter went from sadly divorced to believing every rightwing insanity up to and beyond pizzagate.

Oh, that’s a rough watch.

Oh, I can wait.

We’re an inch away from moving statues of fucking William F Buckley.

Ball ball ball, fatwa fatwa fatwa.

Listening to the rest of your stuff and I can confidently declare you Ace.

“LAAAAAWN!”

This is lovely. I drum a bit, and this makes me itch to play along. Sweet work.

can't help but notice whose losses are expressed in dollars and whose losses are expressed in lives

I’ve been in bars where this might actually happen.

This is a really good piece about a perennially thorny issue (and one of its least difficult manifestations: if you can’t bin the work that is actively funding the hate campaign…).

A powerful film. I hope Richard Crean got some kudos for his performance.

Yes! I used to write for a soap. I mostly loved it, but having to eliminate brand-names led us into awful absurdities. People posting updates on “MyFace” or something.

I will livestream “BOOK!“ from Borders.

Going to a restaurant and screaming “FOOD!” at the waiter so as not to elevate my customised desires into primacy.

Their Famine non-apology even included the little territorial claim that Ireland “was then part of the richest and most powerful nation in the world.” No we bloody weren’t.

Hey friends, it's been so long & I'm sort of flitting about intellectually post book. Anyone want to do me a solid & ask me anything about historical games? The usual - outside of ed or in ed, design or play, historical approach? You know I'll do my best for a thoughtful answer. Whaddya say?

There was no shortage of amazing dipping delights in Ireland. The English exported all our Peach Habanero and Maple Bourbon sauces and left us to starve.

Transported for stealing Trevelyan’s blue cheese dip.

A handicap blue and white painted sign on the asphalt of a parking space. The symbols are meant to be a pregnant women and a baby stroller, but it doesn't look like that. It looks like pac man being killed with scissors next to a dancer

Twerkers at the barbeque get priority parking 🫡

Peter Weller’s doctoral dissertation was Alberti Before Florence: Early Sources Informing Leon Battista Alberti’s De Pictura.

You’ll fit right in.

In a long life of getting stuff wrong, I’m pretty proud to have hated Pixar early.

Willie Nelson plays himself in an episode of Monk, and it has some lovely moments. Monk gets on his tour bus, sniffs, and says: “Do you smell that?” “No,” says Willie, “and neither do you,”

Comic novels about boys in an English boarding school. I once laughed so hard at one of them I fell out of bed.

Those and the Jennings books were my core childhood reading.