• Top videogames of 2012

    Heeeeeeey, I know we are not a videogame reviewing website, but the editorial team partakes heavily into the world of gaming, whether table top, pen and paper or plugged into a wonderful equipment that will turn into junk once it gets a red ring. So, withouth any further ado, here’s our fave games of 2012.…

  • Blog: Why I’m not becoming a Water Slide Tester

    Keyboard Warriors – a group of generally shallow, flippant, self-obsessed, arrogant individuals who fester in front of their computers, espousing their latest banal beliefs to a vast, uncaring online world. But not all warriors are bad. There are different levels of these warriors.

  • The Best 65 albums of 2012

    Oh, dear, this one will hurt… 2012 was a weird year. Short story made long then made short again (via RARzilla), the website was abandoned for a PhD that’s geared into its final year. Having written 300 reviews last year (give or take a few), it was hard to narrow it down to less than…

  • The Purgatory Players – Deserts

  • Cuento Corto: La primaria y las rayas que no pisé

      Cuando las señoras salen a la banqueta a barrer, el camión de la escuela pasa por nosotros. Todos llegamos a la primaria. El chofer nos va contando a uno por uno. En el pasillo de arriba, niños le están levantando la falda a las niñas y ellas les gritan de regreso. Suena el timbre…

  • And ode to no one

    The day was as cobalt blue, like the salts he had seen earlier in the morning, when the lab assistant showed him the evidence that was to be used in the trial. Another kangaroo court in this unforgiving city. He was overcome. He thought it was something he needed. For how long was he tired…

  • Cuento Corto: Melquíades

    Sucio, con el cabello largo, cenizo y la ropa maloliente, la mirada perdida en un punto de fuga imaginario más allá de sus pensamientos, a veces acompañado por un gato, a veces por un zapato pero siempre a la orilla del lago. Así es Melquiades, el vagabundo de la región.

  • Super Board Games Sunday – phase one

    “Dice, motherfucker! Roll them bones.” “You’ll need luck – give them a magic blow.” “Now flip a card.”

  • Album round up: Viv Albertine, Lavender Diamond, The British IBM, Fantasy Rainbow, Alpine Those Myriads

    Hey, Carbon Units… Orestes  here, with some albums that we’ve been listening to. First two reviews come courtesy of Maestro Keefy, one is by Sam The Spam the rest are mine. Ta dah!!

  • Picardy III – Lonely Songs