Category Archives: New Jersey

Ramen Candy

Last weekend was Alistair’s pool party, an annual tradition for a growing circle that includes a lot of my high school friends. When I moved back north last fall, I felt strange picking up with my friends from ten or … Continue reading

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Second Adolescence

It was my birthday this weekend, and I was a little bit down about it. As much as I don’t want to fall into the cliches about women and getting older, I still have to admit that turning thirty is … Continue reading

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Holiday Spirit

My Mom: Any suggestions for Easter dinner? Meg: Let’s have turkey and screw with everyone! My Mom: You’re not helping. Tweet this!

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Not A Metaphor

The other night, I told my parents my travel plans for California to go to DEMO and then GDC. “When you’re driving out from LA to Palm Springs,” my dad said, “and you look out the window and see how … Continue reading

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Monkeys and Tigers

(I started to post an apology about how this actually came out as a hard copy around Christmas, but posting about it has slipped my mind because I’ve been so busy with the killer monkeys and timetravel at my day … Continue reading

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Digital : Analog

“…and then I had a really productive telephone meeting about the magazine, and what direction we’re taking it in.” Marcus told me. “Well, actually it wasn’t on the phone, we were talking on Vent, while playing WarCraft.” I usually make … Continue reading

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How To Tell If It’s Snowing

Wait until someone asks you if you’re going into the city tomorrow, and then, just as you begin to go into your Hulk rage, because obviously you go to the city for work every day (and twice on Sundays, as … Continue reading

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Internet Famous

I didn’t usually post work press here, but Default Prime just did a story on Next Island, and mentioned me. Next Island itself was demonstrated at length by Neverdie Studio’s developer Michael Ray, who answered journalists’ questions and showed character … Continue reading

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Angry Birds

“Ever since we played Angry Birds in Maine,” Marcus said on the phone the other night, “I’ve been seeing it everywhere. I guess it’s becoming pretty popular.” I just barely restrained myself from pointing out that Marcus is hardly the … Continue reading

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When Contextual Ads Attack

Sometimes Facebook gets a bad rap. But I love Facebook, I mean, I defended Facebook back when MySpace looked like an actual competitor (That links to my old Rolling Dice column in the long-dead Faster Than The World mag). I … Continue reading

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