Congrats to @theonion.com, now do whitehouse dot gov next.

I mean, that would explain a lot.

An “Exploitation Guide”

Oh thank goodness, I’ve been needing one of these

Delivery Method: 2 Day Shipping (1 to 6 business days)

See, this is the problem.

(Unfortunately, present-day me lost interest several decades ago. Oh well.)

20-year-old me would not have believed it if you told me I’d be getting coupons in the mail as advertising for the grand opening of a cannabis store

Same! I hope they can fix yours.

I let the audio guy know, because he had to know when to turn my mic on, but video maybe didn’t know what to make of it? Weirdly, before any of that, someone came on stage and introduced me, and that isn’t in the recording either.

Once upon a time I did a talk that began before I actually got on stage, and that (critical) introductory portion is not in the official recording. I wasn’t even thinking about the recording at the time, but I guess if you’re going to do something weird you should let people know.

I see your and raise it: cemetery.

- hello, what are you doing here?
- (raises urn) my father.
- my mother. (Raising urn too)

Happened in my family.

The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Clockwise from top left: 1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.” 2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”. 3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.” 4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.

Ah, yes. I know this well.

They’ll take any excuse these days

I was in crippling pain, which made the whole thing that much weirder. Like you want to observe social niceties, somehow through clenched teeth. But this was a week ago, they’ve more or less fixed me since then.

Incidentally, top ten awkward places to bump into friends contender: the emergency room.

Oh hey, uh…nice to see you guys?

Bless @theonion.com, still keeping me sane.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., attends a news conference in the U.S. Capitol. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

AOC: “This is a threat of genocide & merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing & cannot be trusted.

To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat”

A clock that goes up to 13, by omitting the number 4.

You need one of these (unfortunately out of print)

Fun fact, the broom handle we used for the boom mic is currently serving as the post of my protest sign

Love it. Nuff said.

I think a 20 minute session of doing an expressionist painting of Bert was the break down I needed to have today.

“All the bullshit fringe opinions that are patently unfit to print.”

Weirdly, I’m sitting near my fridge right now and I can see that it has no fewer than six Xs on it.

While Ron and I were making Return to Monkey Island, we had a publisher who vetted every interview we did. I did not properly appreciate the value of that at the time.

It’s a date, just as soon as I check with my squad of private investigators

Historically all you had to do to get me into an interview was to catch me at a time where I wasn’t too busy (not that that is an easy thing to do). Beer would clinch it. But now it seems I need a reliable vetting process.

No, we just had no idea.

Just a friendly Thursday reminder to NOT SUPPORT bigoted right wing grifters like this guy. Folks like this will poison your hobby if you allow them to continue to operate without any pushback.

Unsubscribe, block and warn the people they're attempting to work with.

Show them they're not welcome.

I mean, if you don’t actually enjoy writing, why do it in the first place? There are more effective ways to make a living. Practically all of them, really.

Speaking of news articles and tone, fun fact, one year at LucasArts I wound up on the yearbook staff, and we did the whole thing in the style of the Weekly World News. It was a blast! (I had to remember to also set aside some time to work on my game)