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Interrobang Diaries: Action Sequences and Fight Scenes

November 26, 2019

When things start happening in a way that is fast and furious, the tempo of the game changes a bit. When this happens, it's called an action sequence. A...

Firing The Canons

November 23, 2019

A while back, word went around the intertubes that Tad Stones, creator of Darkwing Duck, had gone on record in an interview as saying that his show and...

Nobody Shot JFK

November 20, 2019

The popular story is that at 12:30 PM on November 22nd, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, but I am here today to tell...

The story continues.

November 19, 2019

So, I’ve posted another bit of the Space Hunter story over on my Patreon, for those interested in my fiction. It (like most of my content in both places) is...

The Dream of the Republican Party

November 16, 2019

This is a piece I have been struggling to write for a few days now. It's a struggle because it deals with a truth that is so obvious to me I'm not sure how...

A Tale of Two Calls

November 15, 2019

So, today Trump released a memo of a short, congratulatory call he made to the president-elect of Ukraine, before the man actually held office and had any...

Taking The Long View When History Is Happening

November 14, 2019

You might have noticed I don't have much to say about impeachment proceedings... yet. It's not that I'm not paying attention, but I feel like my kind of...

The Annihilation Game

November 13, 2019

So, I have finally seen the film Annihilation, which only came out last year but has been so widely discussed by so many people whose opinions I value that I...

Interrobang Diaries: Gameplay Basics

November 7, 2019

Hello to all the new readers who are here because of Greg Olear's essay. In addition to political commentary, I also do tabletop game design. One of the...

The Myth of America’s Mayor: Will the Real Rudy Giuliani Please Stand Up?

November 6, 2019

By Greg Olear Luxuriating in the muck at the center of the president’s Ukraine scandal is Rudolph William Louis Giuliani—a man who, not that long ago, was...

Transmissions from a Point in Space

November 6, 2019

As a point of interest — and under the theory that if you're reading this, you like to read things I have written — I have an essay in the latest issue of...

Red Dead Unloaded

November 5, 2019

Back in the days before YouTube, back when Netflix was a small mail-order rental company, back when it could take me all day to load a single streaming MP3...

Telling Stories in a Big Galaxy

November 4, 2019

So, earlier today I posted a short story on my Patreon, with a working title of "Bluffing on a Strong Hand". I think the title's going to change, it's very...

The Interrobang Diaries: Some Reflections

November 3, 2019

I've got another letter with Interrobang rough draft stuff in it coming up, or possibly two... the draft is getting pretty large and I'm seeing a natural...

Florida Man, Florida Man

November 3, 2019

So when it was first reported that Donald Trump and his current wife had filed for residency in Florida, the White House wasted no time in saying it was...

The Investigation Game

November 2, 2019

So, Greg Sargent had a really incisive piece earlier in the week on the big takeaways from former national security adviser Tim Morrison's opening testimony...

The Economics of Sincerity

November 1, 2019

So, there's this very good farewell message that went up on Deadspin a few months back from Megan Greenwell, that's a sort of post-mortem of a model of...

GUEST POST: Universal's Cinematic Marvels

October 31, 2019

Season's shriekings, BOILS, GHOULS, and non-binSCARY fiends! It is I, your humble Stackeeper, Alexandra, here to introduce a brand new creature-feature to my...

The Call That No One Talks About

October 30, 2019

This from Daniel Dale today: Daniel Dale @ddale8It's hard to explain just how comprehensively Trump is lying about the Ukraine scandal. He's being dishonest...

New Story On Patreon

October 30, 2019

Just a quick note to say that my story for the month (a seasonally appropriate offering, to be sure) “Three Stories Without Any Monsters” is available to...