GOOD FRIDAY, BAD FRIDAY
- Good news: Fatal Frame–an awesomely creepysexyodd videogame in which you play twin Japanese girls exploring a haunted village and doing battle with ghosts via an enchanted camera–has another sequel in the works. And it’s coming soon.
- Bad news: One videogame in which you won’t be playing a girl (or a woman, for that matter) is Far Cry 2, because Ubisoft is too lazy to re-record the script in ladyvoice. Note, this comes from the same OCD design team that turned Assassin’s Creed a series of nested menus. Weak.
- Good news: Andy posted a link to a free iTunes download of “Blind” by Hercules and Love Affair. (FYI, a totally different Andy included a remix of that ditty in his similarly free, similarly downloadable Spring 2008 Mixtape.)
- Bad news: Also at Towleroad, a story about Nepal’s first openly gay member of parliament. Which might seem like good news, but the opposition party in Nepal is dominated by communists. And while communism in theory works just fine, in practice, not so much–especially vis-a-vis the gays. Things usually start out fine, like we’re brothers in arms, but eventually we’re called “degenerates” and likened to members of the evil bourgeoisie. Anyone remember Farewell, My Concubine
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- Good news: Jonno returned safe and sound, and I have abandoned my pursuit of prosthetically enhanced self-portraiture.
- Bad news: The brilliant, brilliant Harvey Korman, who influenced the comic sensibilities of me and a thousand other queens, died yesterday:
- Confusing news: This Rolling Stone piece on the “secret” life of fundamentalist Christians is circulating fast and furiously on the web, but for no good reason. There aren’t any surprises. He doesn’t draw any wacky conclusions. Nothing especially interesting happens. Maybe I’m biased, having been raised in a church that was only slightly more mainstream than the one he attended, but it seems like we’ve all read this piece before. Snore.
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