Penny Arcade

I think I have had fun every time I've been golfing. That said, I rarely play; I'm there primarily to engage in anthropology. A lot of the weirder terminology of golf has been worn smooth by its professionalization, but even a Hole In One is still understood to be an Eagle, and the scoring structure is replete with iconic birds. The real meat for the linguaphile is in deprecated terms, and this Wikipedia page is replete with them. If you can't find yourself nourished by terms…

Tonight’s Penny Arcade league race is going to be a doozy. We are racing the Dallara F3 car at Road America. This car is much faster than anything I’ve raced in iRacing so far and it’s also a brand new track for me. I’ve been practicing for a couple days now but there are so many blind turns and tricky sections to this track that just getting around it cleanly is a challenge for me. The league had a little practice race last night and I spent most of the time in the pit.…

I haven't seen Lovecraft Country yet - no spoilers! - but I don't even have the means to watch it, and being already subbed as fuck to a bouquet of digital horsehit I gotta start getting serious. I asked Gabriel what the breadth of the HBO Max offering was and then we had this conversation. I think the part of my mind that had maintained an awareness of these tendrils, these lures, broke and began to leak around the time I heard about The Peacock. I'm not even going to make it a…

I feel like you get to choose a couple things to be precious about; for me, 1984 might be one of them. Of course, we address the most obvious bit in the strip itself. But I don't think 1984 even maps onto the issue we're discussing here, and outside of some kinda gotcha for a thirty-five year old Apple ad I don't understand how Epic's belief that the split on the App Store is onerous has any correlation with a dehumanizing, all powerful state. It's gross. I think…