Winter Cooking: Beer & Beef Stew

This article can also be found at The Yorker here. Note, and Disclaimer: Standard cooking is really not my style – I feel that knowing some basic cooking theory (how to bake, how to season, how not to burn things) will supersede …

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Culinary Lifestyle: Bubble Tea

I’m (partially) quoted in an article on The Yorker. My full entry is below. I suppose what I dig about bubble tea is the uniqueness of it. To us, it’s a weird and new thing, but it’s like the cultural equivalent of …

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Men’s Lifestyle: Surviving Christmas Shopping

This article can also be found at The Yorker. So it’s December and the customary need to buy gifts for others has arrived. While going shopping isn’t something alien to you (or at least, it shouldn’t be), the idea of having to …

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Film Review: Weekend

This review can also be found at The Yorker. The majority of my experience with romance-type movies has been rooted firmly in the sappy, feel-good realm. And I can’t goddamn stand them. Boy meets girl in a chance encounter – potentially a …

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Mario Kart 7 – Glidin’ & Divin’

This review can also be found at The Yorker. Nintendo are pretty smart businessmen. They’re very confident in their intellectual property – on any given Nintendo console, you’d be had pressed to not find a Mario, Zelda, or Pokémon title. And yet, …

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Have You Played: SSX Tricky

This article was done as part of The Yorker‘s Advent Calendar. I don’t like sport much. Or at all, really. Blame it on the cliché of being bad at football in primary school, getting stick for it, and the ensuing negative feedback …

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Film Review: Dream House

Psychological thrillers are hard to do properly. Whether trying to appeal to a pretentious deep-seated metaphor, or just a set up for an M. Night Shaymalan-esque twist, attention absoltuely has to be paid to keeping the twist obscured, and orchestrated to pack …

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Sonic Generations – Gotta Follow My Rainbow

Back in the days of the Super Nintendo and Sega Mega Drive, the idea of ‘Mascot Platformers’ were incredibly popular. Mario and Sonic were the kings of the genre, and their success introduced many imitators; most of them nowhere near as popular. …

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Singles’ Club: Review Compilation

These singles reviews are taken from assorted articles found at the Yorker. Reviews are ordered from earliest to most recent. Lupe Fiasco – The Show Goes OnThe recent fad of rappers (and wannabe rappers) producing club tunes to hit the top 40 …

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Batman: Arkham City – Skyscrapers and Shark Bait

 This article can also be found at the Yorker.   It’s an easy sell to produce something ‘for the fans’. More so than just milking a character or series within video games, games about other ‘fandoms’ brings in consumers who wouldn’t otherwise …

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