“Guess what?” I said to a certain guy I am decidedly not seeing. “Shirtless Man Magazine* just took my article! I’ve got a new piece coming out in the summer issue!”
“That’s great, Meg! What’s it called?” my gentleman friend asked.
“Um… It’s not entirely settled… the working title is Unconventional Dating.”
*Not its real name. **
**But it may as well be.
The hilarious There, I Fixed It! blog just released a hardcopy version. The book, There, I Fixed It: (No, You Didn’t)
My usual method for dealing with stress is imaging how hilarious it’ll be later, but even in my wildest dreams, I did not imagine my shower disaster in a coffeetable book.
Laying it on a bit thick, universe, but I take your point.
Related: Last time at the same restaurant.
From my newest piece on iheartchaos (Just a reminder, my posts here are totally worksafe, but this site is not entirely PG. Ahem.)
The new Cloud Assassin smartphone game makes the dorm (and boring workplace) game mobile and accessible. Playerscan challenge and invite players by phone number, and map their last known locations. In an awesome cyberpunk move, completely unimagined in my college water-pistol and rubber-snake assassin games, checking another player’s last known location also reveals your own. You make your kill by snapping a photo of your target’s back, and uploading it. And, yes, there’s a space for text-based trashtalking.
Ah, technology. Changing how we pretend to off our friends. Isn’t it great?
Last weekend, I went to the NYC Pride parade with Roy and some of his friends. The parade is always a good show, that combination of elaborate costumes and nudity, dedicated political activism and dick jokes, and there was extra excitement and energy because New York just approved gay marriage.
I’m pretty cynical about marriage in general, but it was an absolute delight to be around so many newly-engaged couples. I’m so proud of New York for recognizing that the desire to be in a relationship with someone doesn’t have all that much to do with biological plumbing, and I hope other states follow soon. Everyone should be able to lock the person they love into a lifetime of nagging about socks and bills! (Um. I’m a total catch. And I don’t have relationship issues or anything. Not at all.)
Google had an awesome banner with two droids holding hands, which made me suddenly wonder if the Android logo has gender. They were throwing chapsticks into the crowd, and by this time, we’d worked our way right up to the barriers, so Roy caught one and I was jealous.
“Don’t be too sad,” Roy said, “You caught the condoms from that other float.”
“But that’s not special!” I insisted, “Condoms are in stores! I don’t know where to find gay Google lip balm!”
There are moments when I’m so crazy about New York, and I ask myself how I thought I could be happy in Raleigh. Well, the Peruvian mermaid lesbians were one of those moments.
Socks, Inc. was one of the local games demoed at last week’s NYGaming.
Socks, Inc. is a supercute AR game. Players create a sock puppet character, and set off to do real-world challenges, like snapping a picture of your sock out in nature, eating a snack or playing a sport. The uploaded pictures and videos are moderated and then shared with other users (answering the obvious questions about a children’s game and user-generated content). Check out the hilarious Alien Overload sock photostream for an example.
(This is an adorable and informative trailer, even though it includes my unfavorite games-related slogan. I admit to finding World of DateCraft pretty cute and clever in 2007, but I wish we could all lay off “World of ___Craft” in games journalism.)
Via Socks, Inc. | The Indie Game Magazine – Indie Game Reviews, Previews, News & Downloads
I think the MTA is trying to tell me something.
