Chris

Meet me in the dark places

Poetry and I do not have a healthy relationship. There is a lot of disrespect and outspoken derision when I talk about her to the fellas, and I’ll pass by each and every book of poems that some poor writer has slaved over, but in the darkest of nights, in seclusion and out of eyeshot,Continue reading “Meet me in the dark places”

Expanding on Cory’s Wrongness

Actually, that’s a little misleading. I don’t intend to take a full-blown run at Cory Doctorow’s logic (this time) but my topic is connected to his ongoing crusades. There is a definite change in the way artistic products are sold to the consumer, and it’s a reluctance to abandon the archaic idea of property ownershipContinue reading “Expanding on Cory’s Wrongness”

A Cheap way to win an argument

Roger Ebert has once again made a pronouncement that video games cannot ever be art. He is wrong, and his manner of defending his contentious belief is extremely irritating. Essentially, he relies on dismissing his opponent’s definitions of ‘art’, while doggedly using his very narrow criteria to label games as not-art. It’s really perplexing thatContinue reading “A Cheap way to win an argument”