The Attic Apartment: Don't play Red Dead Redemption or this will happen to you

I know, I know, my mail-in video embedding probably won't work. But SUCK IT.

I tried CHIME on Xbox Live tonight and it was okay, not quite great
enough for me to pick it up, but then, I'm not much for puzzle games.
Maybe I would play a puzzle game that was a just a Rubik's cube that
came together to form images of nearly undressed librarians, but I
mean, I have yet to find that Rubik's cube. Anyway I found out about
CHIME by reading this recurring feature which reviews games under $5
(and usually free and browser-based). That's how I found out about
some other good stuff online like REDDER and RAPTOR SAFARI.

I know, I know, you're probably saying Tim, what's with all the
all-caps titles? Well, I have no idea how the fuck you're supposed to
indicate a title on the internet. I used to think, what does it
matter, we'll figure it out someday, I mean come on, you can already
twist italics into your email, but really still it's unclear. I mean
I've seen publishing professionals indicate a title with regular caps,
with no caps, with italics, with little _underscores_ around the
title, with the whole mess in UPPERCASE, which, I guess, is attractive
to me tonight.

My sister's family is here and it is greater than I imagined. I drive
35 minutes to a house shaded in the suburbs and mellowed by central
air and eat grilled food and drink tequila. MAN. Also all the kids are
old now, or old enough at least to shock me. And smart, and fun.

Here's a part of the post where I write about a literary magazine:

I came very close last week to starting a literary magazine. I follow
a couple lit blogs and on one run by some editors and writers I said
something like, How about a literary magazine online that doesn't
publish what all the other ones publishes but instead just publishes
serials? And then after I left the comment I was like, in my head,
thinking to myself, turning it over, tasting the idea, mellowing it in
the casks of my brain, and it seemed pretty great. I mean, I'd rather
read something that builds over issues than that stands alone. Every
fucking journal online it seems is publishing the same fucking sub-3k
words pieces over and over and over.

So I came home and started using the godawful GIMP to layout a new
format and I started fucking around with Kompozer and got together the
scraps of a page and then I formatted some sample documents. And then
I thought, this is a lot of work.

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