Dark Tower: The Long Road Home (tags: reading) Trigger Happy: Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution A somewhat dated but still entertaining and informative review of the history of videogames taken as an art for (or at least a proto one). (tags: nonfiction videogame book book2008) Get Your War On: The Definitive Account of the War on Terror, 2001-2008 It's somewhat horrifying how funny this book is. But, I guess you have to laugh. I believe the subtitle. (tags: politics comic ...

tags: history of videogames, definitive account, war on terror, proto, nonfiction, long road home

The view looking up is to a knurled-slate indigo sky through the blackened clawing fingers of a maple tree, its leaves stripped completely clean as of this last Samhain (November 1st). The bus is late as it labors around the bend when I look down, its two lamp eyes flickering not as its gaze is directed at the five of us waiting: Jake, G, next door neighbor, myself, and a replacement Bike Man replete ...

tags: indigo sky, yellow slicker, collective denial, blind ambition, working stiffs, dead leaves, close proximity, maple tree, new roads, samhain, november 1st, trudge, rat race, cacophony, iota, facial hair, essences, bustle, spandex, rotations