blast-o-rama.

RIP Steve Albini. What an absolute legend.

I swear I’m going to avoid being super political, as we’ve got a long road to November but…

…our third best option is someone who had PART OF THEIR BRAIN EATEN?!!

Had a change of heart! Originally had an 11-inch iPad Pro and new Pencil ordered as of last night. Thought more about it…for what I use my iPad for, the new Air really is a leg up and more accurate to my use. So…cancelled and ordered the Air! Feeling pretty good about this.

Today has been new iPad announcement day, and while you’ll find much better recaps + details elsewhere, I’ll just say for me…

• Not sure if I should go Pro or Air (I’m looking to replace my 2020 Pro)
• Def gonna grab the pencil, think I will wait on the keyboard.

Now to get a trade-in estimate.

Ugh, more video game industry cuts, this time at Microsoft. I get – due to the failures of Redfall – Arkane, but Tango Gameworks?! Hi-Fi Rush was one of the most unique games in years, and a hell of a time to play. This sucks.

Nintendo has finally officially confirmed what anyone with a pulse knew: the successor to the Switch will be announced within the next year.

If the new Justice album was out in the late 90’s, you KNOW every PS1 racing game would license a song from it.

To celebrate today’s unofficial “holiday”, Lucasfilm has released a new trailer for The Acolyte, which premieres in June. It looks good as hell, and thankfully: different.

Fun new Apple ad in time for tomorrow’s Star Wars Day.

Sure, it’s an ad for their Find My feature (with the precision locating found only on iPhone 15), but I thought it did a good job of capturing the mundane process of finding your pals at a convention.

My iTunes copy of Ocean’s Eleven got upgraded to 4K, so I’ve got that on in the background while I work from home. I could – and have – watched this movie a million times over.

Oh boy! Ted Leo has chosen this Bandcamp Friday to release the demos for his 2003 classic, Shake the Sheets.

Back on my game console tinkering BS.

I have to say, I’m really happy with the state of my website. It’s lightweight, contains all of my posts (longer and shorter), and cross-posts where I want it to cross-post to.

Owning your own part of the web really is key, gang.

I did not realize that Godspeed You! Black Emperor had been playing new songs on their current tour. There’s a playlist on YouTube with really great bootlegs of all three of them. New album soon, I hope.

The new owners of The Onion are being hilariously aggressive and I love it. (And it’s the entire homepage right now.)

If you’ve got $1200 and a crippling toy robot addiction, the new Self-Transforming Megatron is for you!

While I’m sure most will be drooling at the Artemis Space Launch System set from today’s LEGO announcements, I’m most intrigued and enthused about the Milky Way art set. SO cool.

Great Polygon interview with writer Ram V regarding his current Dark Horse series, Dawnrunner. I read issue one and adored it – a great concept met with incredible art from Evan Cagle - and I cannot wait for the trade!

“Uh, sir, you might get people turning against you for the TikTok ban.” “Time to fuck with the airlines.”

I swear, I’m not trying to be Old Man Who Yells At Cloud, but this whole TikTok thing just underlines that if you are running a business online, you need a direct voice to your customers which you own. Mailing list, your own site, all of it.

I’ve discovered World Chase Tag, and I’m sorry, I think I’m going to make this my personality moving forward.

The announcement graphic for next month’s Apple (presumed) iPad Event is really well done. Kudos to the illustrator.

Anyone else really love the recent “Add-to-Dock” functionality for making websites sandboxed “apps”? They’re great for streaming services.

The “For You” section of Threads is the most baiting, triggering horseshit. So glad I can just follow those I care about over there through Mastodon.

…provided that they’ve turned on federation…

They say kill the part of you which is cringe, and to just be you, right?

Here goes: The first two Coldplay albums are good and might be what Radiohead would’ve been if they were more commercial.