Category Archives: North Carolina
Realistic Teenagers in Jennifer Mathieu’s ‘The Truth About Alice”
The Truth About Alice deals deftly with teenage sexuality and identity in a small Texas town. Everyone in Healy, Texas knows that slutty Alice Franklin slept with two guys in the same night (I shudder to think about high school … Continue reading
Editorial and Supernatural Adventures in ‘Ghost Train To New Orleans’
My cousin Andrea got me The Shambling Guide to New York City for Christmas, and I just loved it. Then I received an ARC of Ghost Train to New Orleans, the second book of Zoe and her adventures. I like … Continue reading
Free Free Free To Play, Pay Pay Pay To Win
Indie studio Elevate Fun’s new free-to-play iOS Game, FFFFF2P, is Free Free Free Free Free To Play. Like most free-to-play games, you can, of course, pay to win. Free Free Free Free Free To Play smartly satirizes the usual free-to-play … Continue reading
Math For Killing Zombies
I’m pretty sure being a professor at a small college is the best way to survive the collapse of society. History professor John Matherson survives in One Second After, and teacher assistant Olive does just fine in An Etiquette Guide To … Continue reading
PanemVille: The Hunger Games Adventures
The Hunger Games novels suggest so many good games — a minigame hunting prey with Katniss’ arrows (a popular choice for the middle-school girls in my game design classes), a crafting and survival game like Lost In Blue set in … Continue reading
An Unpleasant Combat Game
Quoted from Leigh Alexander’s blog. Posted without comment, because how could I improve this? What’s your favorite video game? Metal Gear Solid 3. It’s a game set in the Cold War that you can play however you want, but those of … Continue reading
But I Really Like This Book
Harold: Look, I got Robocop on DVD! Will you watch it with me? Meg: I guess if it’s important to you — Harold: It is! Meg: Then I will read my book in the same room where you watch this … Continue reading
An Etiquette Guide To The End Times
In Maia Sepp’s novella An Etiquette Guide to the End Times, Olive writes a blog answering etiquette questions for well-mannered survivalists in the semi-collapsed society. Just because the earth grows warmer every year, beachfront property is now underwater property, and … Continue reading
Meteolojinx Recanto
I wrote this a while ago, right after it happened, but I thought it was too negative, and didn’t post it. Recently, I got into a discussion about whether we’d recommend our rental company to friends, and I had to … Continue reading
