Digital Beard Stroking: Identify Yourself!

Identity is one of those complicated and infinitely nuanced concepts that we take for granted in our society.  For the most part, we drift through our lives without a thought to how we are appearing to people.  We are also constantly automatically identifying and categorizing people, equally unintentionally.  Our entire culture […]

A Bard’s Eye View: Allegaeon – Proponent For Sentience

Achieving True Sentience A look at the new Allegaeon album You may have been present for the music video that I posted that I had a nice little cameo in.  Well, the long wait is over and the new Allegaeon album is hot off the presses.  I have been a […]

Boxed Culture: The Experience of Playing a Game

The Experience of Playing a Game So, a long time ago I talked to Mike Fitzgerald about games. This weekend I played a game that made me think of that conversation again. This weekend I was taught Twilight Struggle and, boy-wowie, was it something.   Twilight Struggle is a pretty […]

Graphic Reviews: Persepolis

Persepolis While there’s plenty of graphic novels that I haven’t read, I like to think that over the course of my weekly ramblings about them, I’ve come to read a fairly decent range of stories. There have been stories that I’ve fallen in love with, stories that I despised with […]

A Bard’s Eye View: Artist Profile – Eyedea & Abilities

Artist Profile Eyedea & Abilities Country of origin: United States Genres: Hip hop, Rap Rock Years active: 1999-2010 Current members: None Number of albums: 3 Number of concerts attended: 2 Notable cameos on artist’s records: Blueprint, Carnage There are many things that Eyedea & Abilities was known for.  DJ Abilities […]

Digital Beard Stroking: Driving, Striving, Conniving?

One of the important aspects of writing these sorts of articles is to keep reading new materials and resist the temptation to rest on one’s laurels and (probably poorly remembered) old readings.  To that end (and my own personal obsession with motivation), I picked up “Drive, the surprising truth about […]

Graphic Reviews: Tomboy – A Graphic Memoir

Tomboy A Graphic Memoir As anyone who knows me can attest, I am not the most feminine of women. I struggle to care about a lot of traditionally girly things and have always had more male friends than female. When you’re more into videogames and sports, that’s just kind of […]