January 2012
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Top ten myths about introverts
jerrybrito:
Myth #1 – Introverts don’t like to talk. This is not true. Introverts just don’t talk unless they have something to say. They hate small talk. Get an introvert talking about something they are interested in, and they won’t shut up for days.
Myth #2 – Introverts are shy. Shyness has nothing to do with being an Introvert. Introverts are not necessarily afraid of people. What they need...
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http://pizzaboomerang.com/ →
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Dear Customer who stuck up for his little brother,
sweetupndown:
you thought I didn’t really notice. But I did. I wanted to high-five you.
Yesterday I had a pair of brothers in my store. One was maybe between 15-17. He was a wrestler at the local high school. Kind of tall, stocky and handsome. He had a younger brother, who was maybe about 10-12 years old. The only way to describe him was scrawny, neat, and very clean for a boy his age. They...
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pragmagic:
Colin Campbell x: 25 Tips for the Young Games Journalist
colincampbellx:
Last year I became the proud recipient of a Games Media Legend Award. It was also my 25th year since I began working in games journalism. So I felt the weird urge to write 25 tips for the young games journalist, based almost entirely on the mistakes I’ve made over the last two and and a…
I read through...
December 2011
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Preview: PixelJunk 4am →
I don’t ordinarily promote my writing here, especially non-review stuff, but I liked the way this preview came out. Mostly because I used some flowery language, and I think I pulled it off.
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“i feel like as of this year, I make enough money as a standup my goal now is to...”
– comedian Louis CK, commenting in an “I Am A” thread on Reddit, on why he decided to forgo traditional distribution methods and make his newest one-hour special, Live From the Beacon Theatre, only available to stream or download through his website for $5 via PayPal
November 2011
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September 2011
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Review: NHL 12 →
Here’s my full review of EA Sports’ NHL 12. Spoiler: it’s yet another very, very good hockey game from the folks at EA Canada.
Now that I’ve reviewed this and Madden NFL 12, I can finally dive into Deus Ex: Human Revolution!
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I reviewed Madden NFL 12 for Destructoid. →
Hey, I have a Tumblr!
I know it’s been forever since I’ve posted on here, and I suppose pimping your own work isn’t the best way to re-introduce yourself, but… deal with it. (Or unfollow me — hell, I’m assuming most of you will after this post, if you haven’t already.)
Because of my day job, I haven’t written much for Destructoid at all lately. But...
August 2011
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July 2011
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“‘I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. You live in a great big vast world that...”
– Louis C.K., from season 2, episode 5 of Louie. Worth reminding oneself of. (via chrisremo)
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June 2011
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A week ago, 2K Sports invited a bunch of journalists (including yours truly) to a press event at Citi Field before a Phillies-Mets game. We met the winner of the Major League Baseball 2K11 $1 million perfect-game contest, a guy named Brian Kingrey from Hammond, Louisiana, and I wrote a story on Destructoid about him.
They had the journalists play Kingrey and try to get hits off of him, just...
May 2011
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“Down the aisle is Welch’s 100% Grape Juice, with no fat and emblazoned with a...”
– Foods With Health Benefits, or So They Say - NYTimes.com
We don’t shop in grocery stores anymore. They are - quite literally - filled with nothing but poison.
(via evangotlib)
Note from Ron: I love that the NY Times leaves out that there is no sugar added to Welch’s Grape Juice (stated as...
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“If someone suggested the idea of public libraries now, they’d be considered...”
– Peter Collins, The Secret Life of Libraries (via jingc)
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brianfeldman:
Serious business: I am biking 50 miles for charity.
On May 21st, I’m going to be participating in “Coast the Coast,” a charity bike ride to benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. I’ll be riding with a team from members of my hometown, The Park Pedalers, and if memory serves, this will be my 12th consecutive year riding in the event. And it is now...
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We Are All Fucked, We Are All Fine →
My colleague and friend Leigh Alexander wrote this wonderful, inspiring piece on Thought Catalog:
Let go of that process of trying to be ‘normal’ and you might just fall off the face of the Earth; first your feet won’t be touching the ground and then everything will start to look really far away and impossible to touch and then before you know it you’ll be lifting off soundlessly into the...
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the fake triumph of not liking something
inthefade:
I don’t get the pride with which some people say “I don’t like [insert popular tv show/band/movie here]!” When someone puts this out in the internet I imagine them sitting at their computer, raising their fist in the air as they click the button that sends their opinion out to the world. Then they sit back and wait for the backlash, smugly appraising every reaction while seeing...
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If you're smart, you'll stay in school — it really...
Last night, I went back to Hofstra (after graduating in December) for the induction ceremony for Phi Alpha Theta, a national honor society for history students. I figured I was just going to get a certificate, and that’d be that.
I did, indeed, get a nice certificate. But what I didn’t know was that I would also be receiving an award from the History Department: the Robert L. Payton...
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April 2011
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Watchsoupsoup:
Alisa Miller : The Bad News About The News
Please watch this.
Alisa Miller, head of Public Radio International, talks about why — though we want to know more about the world than ever — the US news media is actually showing less. Eye-opening stats and graphs. (Recorded March 2008 in Monterey, California. Duration: 4:29.)
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