This Inevitable Ruin, by Matt Dinniman (Book Review)

This Inevitable Ruin may be my favorite Dungeon Crawler Carl book yet. By this point, the series has evolved far beyond humans versus aliens into something bigger: the oppressed versus the oppressors, former crawlers passing down resistance, Carl becoming a reluctant leader, and DCC somehow making screaming goats, galactic politics, emotional trauma and dick jokes all feel like parts of the same story. Continue reading This Inevitable Ruin, by Matt Dinniman (Book Review)

DJ Notorious and the Soundtrack of A Younger Weez

A college roommate’s 48-disc hip-hop mixtape series sent me digging back through the music that shaped my late-’90s and early-2000s years. Rebuilt as a 695-track Spotify playlist, it became part nostalgia trip, part musical archaeology, and part reckoning with what still holds up, what does not, and what young Weez was absorbing along the way. Continue reading DJ Notorious and the Soundtrack of A Younger Weez