Joe Cecil

The floatiest platforms

Baba Is You is not a game. It is a recurring nightmare. It's the same as always. I'm here in this place. The place asks a question. Nothing I do gets me any closer to an answer. I push things around for a while anyway. Sometimes

Hours is a long time

I've been thinking lately about natural curiosity and "what could you talk for hours about?" It's not a long list. It's even shorter if I actually have to remember things about those topics. It includes: 1. Fiction? 2. Biographies of early 20th

Inuyasha wraps up its arcs

(spoilers for Inuyasha, of course.) Something I like about Inuyasha: The Final Act is that it is actually wrapping up the series' long-running arcs. It finished Kagura's story. It finally killed Kikyo. (Yes, again, but as far as I can tell for good this time.) It put

Poisonous snakes

A passage from Can Xue's "The Child Who Raised Poisonous Snakes," as translated by Ronald R. Janssen and Jian Zhang: "Now I don't need a place to raise snakes," Sha-yuan answered. "They are in my belly. They don't stay

Background noise

When I'm not listening to music, nearly all the time I'm imagining it anyway. It's always going in the background. Right now, it's a few seconds from the opening and closing themes from Inuyasha: The Final Act. Usually it's video

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