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I’m still on the phone with Comcast—blogging from my phone. So—a re-run from Facebook:   I don’t often make “lecture-y” posts, but I was listening to my fave podcast (Harmontown) and I was thinking about[…]

Last year, Julie and I completed this “year compass” thing. I was just looking at it, and I’ve decided that tonight I’m going to look at my “your next year will be about” page to[…]

Over the last week, I’ve been making a wrestler a night in WWE 2K18. Tonight I intend to make the masked cruiserweight from LIJ: Bushi. I had a bit of a quest trying to find[…]

As you all know, I teach game writing/game design. I have expertise in various other areas (all manner of digital production, digital and cultural rhetorics, visual rhetoric, etc.), but if one were to ultimately define[…]

During my first class as a PhD student, I wrote a collage essay. As a part of it, I built a list of songs, one for every year of my life, that was meant to[…]

A story for you. Picture it, Indiana, early spring 2002. Still a student, Phill is sitting in an advisory meeting with the university Chancellor. This is the fourth meeting of this particular body, and over[…]

In spite of the fact that I’ve never really gotten a good gift in return, this will mark the 5th time I’ve signed up for Reddit Secret Santa. I think that people have various reasons[…]

My mom used to tell me this story when I was digging myself a hole. Once there was a man who was nothing but a head. He had troubles, of course, as he was merely[…]