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Gomez Airing This Weekend

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Hello Indie Rock Fans It’s time for your sporadic pop culture injection. This weekend, one of Austin’s proudest cultural institutions, Austin City Limits (the show), is airing the Gomez taping that this humble game writer was fortunate enough to attend. Gomez, for those unaware, is a talented, long-lived, guitar-heavy ensemble from Ol’ Blighty. They got this [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Jan 12, 2012

Some Thoughts on Ballet Austin’s “Mozart Project”

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This game writer was at the ballet last weekend. A bit of a change of pace from puttering around in the Battlefield 3 beta. And guess what? It was magnificent. Or at least the middle piece was, a collaboration between Austin composer Graham Reynolds and choreographer Stephen Mills called “Though the Earth Gives Way.” Set [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Oct 6, 2011

ChatRoulette Video Stuns and Shocks

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This ChatRoulette video from Eva and Franco Mattes is a bit of black-hearted Web 2.0 culture jamming from a pair of New York artists. What would you say if you witnessed a suicide?

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Read more | Comments (0) | Oct 28, 2010

Keynote: Steve Jobs Announces iPad Newton

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Steve Jobs Debuts iPad Newton at Keynote STEVE JOBS KEYNOTE, SAN FRANCISCO, JULY 2010 – World, meet the new iPad Newton. As suspected at Patently Apple, which noted in March that Apple renewed their Newton trademark, Steve Jobs announced at a conference keynote that Apple has transformed the past into the future by introducing the [...]

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Read more | Comments (2) | Jul 10, 2010

Blu-Ray Sale and Game Blowout at Hollywood Video

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Blowout Blu-Ray and Game Sale as Hollywood Craters Blu-rays, DVDs and videogames are bearing closeout sale tags at Hollywood Video as the crumbling of the movie rental business continues. We stumbled on this recently when rolling into an Austin-area Game Crazy, Hollywood’s game subsidiary, for the usual dose of videogame overexposure, and instead got a [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Apr 27, 2010

Television Poker Has Jumped the Shark

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Television poker has spread all over late night TV like an aggressive mold growth, and I realized recently that it’s leaped over the proverbial shark, several times. No great revelation there, but it really sunk home for me the other night when I surfed into a game where Phil Ivey was at the table eating [...]

Read more | Comments (2) | Jan 30, 2010

Best Halloween Costume Ever

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Credit for spotting this goes to one of my friends on Facebook. I can’t remember who but you’re welcome to identify yourself. I grew up in a college town, and one Halloween our doorbell rang and we opened the door expecting to see trickortreater—but what was in front of our open door—was another door! Like, [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Dec 26, 2009

Red Robin Gourmet Burgers and the Future of America

Posted by Game Writer Guy | Filed under music writing, pop culture

Had a Red Robin Gourmet Burger and Now I Am Nostradumbass So your immodest game writer went to Red Robin, the burger chain, the other night. While the experience is fresh in my mouth (why does that sound wrong?), I feel I must crack wise about what Red Robin gourmet burgers tell us about the [...]

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Read more | Comments (2) | Oct 11, 2009

All Star Game 2009

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The NL Didn’t Have to Lose the All Star Game in 2009 The All Star Game 2009 is over, and the NL lost again. Good thing the Astros (the team that unfortunately has my witless loyalty) aren’t going to the WS, because now I don’t have to be angry about losing the 2009 All-Star Game. [...]

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Read more | Comments (1) | Jul 15, 2009

Need a Shot to the Kisser?

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Try the Pez gun. Great for parents who encourage their kids to engage in suicide- and execution-themed play. Click the gun for the full story at TopCultured.

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Read more | Comments (0) | Jun 7, 2009

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