Why no Gather Sport?

Time manages to get away from me these days, but I submitted a book review for publication in a magazine and I wrote another one for Starship Grifters this week, so let's keep things rolling with a selection of the Internet's finest links. This interview with

It is the Sega Genesis version that had the slightly clipped opening lines, rather than the arcade cabinet that I remember from my youth. But I definitely fed more than few quarters into machine that looks like this.

This is a useful contrast between G. K. Chesterton and H. P. Lovecraft. The word "absurd" means very different things in their works. JD Cowan writes about Quake. That game has a special place in my heart, as it was my real introduction to the internet. I played