My first column for the Secure Immaturity podcast and website is now online

Read it here.

It is an honor to have House of Whack distributed alongside some of the most innovative and important independent role-playing games ever conceived. House of Whack really is a gateway drug to story games and other out of the box gaming experiments, so it really seems like a good fit.

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I want to retreat into a cocoon and burst forth months hence as a better person for everyone in my life, including me. Lately it seems as if all my energy is devoted to countering all the tiny stresses which flow in an insidious undercurrent that doesn’t feel like stress. The net result is that I’m just okay, just getting by. Ambitions and drives fizzle easily. There is no Great Work welling up inside me, no stories, no art. Getting the laundry done has become a noteworthy event, a sign that the day did not die in vain. All other tasks or concepts overwhelm.

I wander out of my quarters, wondering where the crew has gone. I spin the steering wheel out of boredom. Direction doesn’t matter when there is no land in sight. All the maps have blown overboard anyway.

Brothers Bloom and Zack & Miri topped my list at Fantastic Fest. Brothers Bloom is a perfect movie which I fell head over heels in love with. Rian Johnson has now made two of my favorite all time movies.

Zack & Miri is probably the most consistently funny Kevin Smith movie, if not the most clever or geeky. It isn’t just a good Kevin Smith movie, it is a good *movie* in its own right.

1. The Fountain
2. Brothers Bloom
3. Blade Runner
4. The Dark Knight
5. There Will Be Blood
6. Batman Begins
7. Ghostbusters
8. Barton Fink
9. Old Boy
10. Zack & Miri Make a Porno