I REMEMBER HATING YOU FOR LOVING ME: What do we like around here? Maps? Sure! Games? Absolutely. Urban planning? Well, I'm sure many of us. But what do we really, really like? A good time sponge!
Ladies and gentlemen, Mini Metro. (The expanded version is worth the $6.99)
Saturday, August 30, 2014
SPIRITED: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will award honorary Oscars this year to Hayao Miyazaki, Maureen O'Hara, and French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, and present the Hersholt Award for humanitarian work to Harry Belafonte. For the fourth straight year, no Thalberg.
BELIEVE IT OR NOT: Fox is rebooting The Greatest American Hero, with Lego Movie/Jump Street masterminds Phil Lord and Chris Miller. Same "goofy hero, stoic handler" pairing. Zachary Levi and Nick Offerman, anyone?
Friday, August 29, 2014
I CALL LEDGERMAN! At GenCon a few weeks ago, the first ever full game of The Cones of Dunshire was played.
JUST ONE MORE THING: A reader writes:
I have been torn between guilty and unabashed in loving the MEtv Sunday night airings of Columbo - caught the pilot a month or so ago (though the character had appeared in other places and so was pretty formed, though Falk looked so young and less rumpled) and since then they've been doing selected episodes - and good ones, ones with either great guest stars or interesting plots. It's great how they enjoy ripping apart cliches - recently there was a confession triggered by a piece of evidence ridiculously being found in an item that had been moved around a bit and which anyway had only the slightest chance of being there and I was incredulous - in the denouement Columbo admitted he had planted it.
Anyway, was going to urge you to post next weekend when they air the one with Johnny Cash (directed by Nicholas Colasanto!) The ads make it clear I am several decades younger than the target market, but oh so good.
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