Author Archives: Meg
ReviewerCard: A Card For (Unethical) Reviewers
I’ve written before about times I feel like a real writer and times I wish I could carry all my clips around with me so I don’t feel like a hack and how great it is to get official confirmation in a … Continue reading
Pretend Space and Real Trees
New post on IGM that’s half about a new initiative from indie studio RocketOwl, and half my rambling about social games for social change. …The Ottawa indie game developers RocketOwl will be planting a real live tree for each new … Continue reading
But Brooklynites Do Things Ironically
Potential Work Contact: My email is *noun* followed by *number* at Yahoo dot com. Meg: Well played, retro hipster! Want my fax number? Potential Work Contact: What? Meg: Oh. You weren’t kidding. Uh…
The Lasting Value of a Classical Education
Harold and I drove past this shop tonight, and I started giggling. “Cato Fashions!” I laughed, “I mean, it’s no Gatsby luxury haircare, but it’s pretty great, right?” “What?” Harold asked me. “What’s so funny about a women’s clothing chain?” … Continue reading
The Blogger Abides: A Practical Guide to Writing Well and Not Starving
The Blogger Abides: A Practical Guide to Writing Well and Not Starving is Chris Higgins’ new book on freelancing. (Disclosure: Chris is one of my favorite things about Mental Floss and he sent me an advance copy of the book … Continue reading
Two Steps Back
Looks like the Dead Island: Zombie Bait Collector’s Edition will feature a disturbing extra for zombie fans: A headless, armless bikini-clad girl’s torso. Ick. From the press release, because I could not make this up: Paul Nicholls, Sales & Marketing … Continue reading
Also, I Have Terrible Taste In Music
I just did a story on MySpace’s re-re-re-relaunch, which allowed me to have a laugh at a failed social networker getting some new investment capital to relaunch as a shiny new social networker, and also allowed me to enjoy some of … Continue reading
Bohemian Throwdown
Harold has written a new story for the comics collection Country Ass-Whupping, called Insights Into My Fiance’s Anger Issues, sorry, I mean, the story’s called Bohemian Throwdown. The other thing is just what I call it. This book is a one-shot fundraiser for … Continue reading
It’s Numbered, Too.
Harold: Oh, wow! Is this for me? Were you trying to hide this to give it to me later? Meg: No! That’s, um, that’s my Star Trek action figure that I was, um, storing in an unmarked box in the back of … Continue reading
Spaceteam!
I played Spaceteam with some friends this weekend. When you have a group of people who work in games and think critically about games, sometimes it’s easy to get caught up talking about mechanics, but I had so much genuine … Continue reading
