Online Writing
Video games
- Three Meditations on Journey — (on Journey) The Idler, 5/18/12
- The World Doesn’t End — (on Mass Effect 2) The Idler, 4/27/12
- Let Me Tell You a Story — The Idler, 8/6/11
- Books, Brooms, and Bad Video Games — (on Harry Potter tie-ins and video games) The Idler, 7/23/11
- No More LEGOs — (on LEGO Harry Potter) The Idler, 7/7/11
- Sucked In — (on Portal) The Idler, 6/1/11
- THAT Camp and Casual Games — The Idler, 5/5/11
- Kirby and the Failed Motion Control Experiment — The Idler, 4/27/11
- Playing the Penguin — (on Little Big Planet) The Idler, 2/10/11
- Worth the Wait — (on LEGO Batman)The Idler, 2/3/11
- The Sun and the (Heavy) Rain — (on Heavy Rain) The Idler, 1/6/11
- Mario Gets Old — (on the Super Mario Bros. 25th anniversary) The Idler, 11/18/10
- The Horror Before Words — (on Silent Hill 2) The Idler, 10/28/10
- In Control — (on the evolution of video game controllers from the NES to the PS3) The Idler, 9/29/10
- Red Dead Resolution — (on Red Dead Redemption) The Idler, 9/8/10
- Click, Click, Click — (on Zynga’s Mafia Wars) The Idler, 9/1/10
The Gamers’ Club (Daniel J. Hogan, Andrew Simone, and I play through old video games — full index of posts here.)
- Final Fantasy VII
- Part one: Again for the first time
- Part two: Navigating the third dimension
- Part three: Back to the map
- Part four: Endings are different all over
- Part five: Guided strategy
- Part six: The slog
- Part seven: Jumping off the rails
- Part eight: Parting is such sweet sorrow
- Part nine: Breaking through the wall
- Part ten: So close
- Part eleven: Now that’s an ending
- EarthBound
Food
- Beefy forearms and emulsions — The Idler, 3/19/12
- My own private food desert — The Idler, 3/5/12
- Up in my grill — The Idler, 2/20/12
- Oven pancakes — The Idler, 2/7/12
- A supposedly successful experiment that I’ll never repeat — The Idler, 1/23/12
- Julia’s kitchen — The Idler, 1/9/12
- Garlic bread — The Idler, 12/19/11
- Mac and cheese — The Idler, 12/5/11
- Cranberries before you know it — The Idler, 11/28/11
- A tale of two cheeses — The Idler, 11/7/11
- Food, foodies, and jerks — The Idler, 10/24/11
Books
- After the End: A Harry Potter Counterfictional — The Idler, 6/11/11
- Confessions and Extra Lives — Ditching Otis, 7/2010
Comic books
- Hacking the Story — Snarkmarket, 6/20/11
- The Badges Behind the Bat — The Idler, 3/16/11
- What Makes the Bat? — The Idler, 1/31/11
- Four Rules for a Successful Superhero Film — The Idler, 12/10/10
Sports
- Brandon Comes Back — The Idler, 8/23/11
- A Modest Proposal — Ditching Otis, 5/2010
Public advocacy
Support CADL (2010 Capital Area District Library millage renewal campaign)
- Seriously. Vote YES on Aug. 3 — 7/21/10
- Vote YES on Capital Area District Library Millage – Letter to the editor, published in Lansing City Pulse, 6/30/10
Blogging
- Wordwright — 2004-2011
Talks/presentations/video
- “Aha Moment” Mutual of Omaha, 2011
- “Lansing Lit Mags: Past and Possible Future” Ignite Lansing, 2010
Books, chapbooks, and collections
Nine Poems. Poetry e-chapbook, Revelator Press: 2007.
“Brevity” and “Food” (“Food” co-authored with Theresa Mlinarcik) in New Liberal Arts. Snarkmarket/Revelator Press: 2009.
