Sex: The Play

a play for British Audiences.

Daydream Apocalypse

I have a can of Diet Coke. It’s not a purchase I am happy with, on ethical grounds. I’ve been talking a lot about the importance of boycotting America. Especially those companies targeted by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement in support of Palestinians. Coca Cola is the target of an organic boycott supported by […]

5 years of being correct and perfect

in 2020 i started writing about games on this blog, it was about experimental critique. i got some minor traction from some minor figures in a trillion dollar industry and wrote some stuff about how popular indie games are bad that is still my most read stuff. this was due to having a twitter presence […]

metro. sexual.

sex and violence in 2013’s metro: last light

what did you think of the one about the thing.

did you like the meal? yes, no, that’s important stuff. my mind was the whole time thinking about how there’s a hair in my food

A Horrible Monster: American Memory Machine

This isn’t really a story. I had an idea for one though, it’s about a creature. The creature breaks into your house. I was lying in bed and imagined a break in scenario where I am eating some strange object, like cutlery, and on being spotted say something like “Yeah, that’s me, I bet you’re […]

the position of bodies/crisis arcadia devnotes 1

“that sense of expression was something i got from posing these characters like puppets. i designed them like puppets though there’s no definite in my mind as to whether they’re mechanical or biological or both. they just are, vessels for expression.”

eat the body of the person next to you

kid covers their eye with a hand, closes it shut, pretends that in their hand is the eye. puts the eye in their mouth. swallows it.

correction: no arcade/elective destruction zone 5

the previous story about our efforts to excavate the remains of an arcade by the coast in southern england has been revealed as nothing but fiction. it’s been removed from the site. the story of the cabinet game ‘Family Murder 5000’ uncovered there was a hoax. the idea of a cabinet that requires your spit […]

i want more coins

i want more coins to buy more selves. lego coins are worth ten, 100, 1,000, and 10,000. silver, gold, blue, purple. they are scattered around the world. often in neat lines. often inside objects that when broken open burst out in a local shower, that then disappear quickly, blinking to show you their transience. it […]