Monument Valley: Minimal story, but an engaging world and a satisfying ending.

I was in no rush to finish the beautiful mind-puzzler game Monument Valley. Minimal story, but an engaging world and a satisfying ending. Similar:Perspective | After Hannity’s travesty, Fox News redeems itself (just a tad) with a bold e…Fox News was the first major outlet to p…CultureShatner's live, extemporaneous post-touchdown monologue on mortality was better…

Carolyn and spider friends performing "Power" from Stage Right's Sleeping Beauty this Friday.

Similar:How to Annoy Your Parents (Smurfs, Tweety, Jar-Jar and Ewoks)   http://www.youtube.com/wat…AmusingIf I don’t design the sign for the pub on my #steampunk space cruiser, who will? #prioriti… AestheticsStage Right's "The Secret Garden": Performing with My Talented Daughter This weekend has been magical. Frida…CultureA performance, two auditions and a cast party. #busyweekendPersonalChecking out of @frontporchtheatricals…

Actors Fail to Distract Audience from Prop Newspaper Headlines

My daughter and I were talking about prop newspapers, and she suggested making a newspaper prop with headlines such as “Actors Fail to Distract Audience from Prop Newspaper Headlines” Similar:Set Phasers to Teach!Fans of Star Trek have thus already been…AcademiaMedia Bias Chart version 11, Aug 2023 — Journalism sorted by bias (Left / Center / Right),…Whether a source…

Schiller schools internet on correct Apple device plurals, but Cook says “iPad Pros”

“Siri, is the world ready for Apple pod people who are also grammarians?” According to Schiller, multiple Apple products should be referred to without pluralization, for example the plural of “iPhone” is “iPhone” or “iPhone devices.” It seems years of rampant misuse have taken their toll, finally and absolutely corroding the exec’s resolve to maintain…

Why are we so bored?

On average we spend six to seven hours in front of our phone, tablet, computer and TV screens every day. All this is simply becoming boring. Instead of performing varied activities that engage different neural systems (sport, knitting, painting, cooking, etc) to relieve our tedium, we fall back on the same screen-tapping schema for much…

What Borges Learned from Cervantes

Borges reinvented Don Quixote as a playful novel, full of surprises and unexpected anticipations of the way we read today. Across genres and over decades, his varied meditations opened new paths for readers. The following conversation took place during January 2016 between Ilan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College,…

Celebration of Writing

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