January 2012
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The Book of Drugs by Mike Doughty
I approached this book with only a vague sense of what Doughty’s personal life and his relationship to his former band was like, so I’m not judging it as a recovery narrative or 90s rock scene tell all. I bought it because I like the music he’s put out there, and I was hoping to learn a little more about it—the liner notes of an ongoing career.
And I did. There were...
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The Legend of Zelda: It's Dangerous to go Alone!
The Legend of Zelda is supposed to be about exploration, and I’ve always taken this as a given. Now I’m not so sure.
I’m almost thirty years old. I have only faint—and possibly manufactured—memories of a time before the NES, and I know we got Zelda early on because we were still in our first house. I wouldn’t have the kind of experience that Miyamoto aimed to...
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Five Minutes with Abobo's Big Adventure
Currently blowing up the Internet is Abobo’s Big Adventure, the self-styled “Ultimate Tribute to the NES.” As I sipped my morning coffee, I wondered if it would be the spiritual successor to Super Mario Bros. Crossover, which finally answered my boyhood question of how awesome would it be if I could use a spread gun outside the confines of Contra. (The answer, of course, is...