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Have a rotten day. 16 April 2021
Is there a game you can play with your eyes closed? Besides a brief time when I fell asleep playing Mario Kart DS but woke up still in first place, my eyes closed game of choice is Wario Land, also known as Super Mario Land 3, on the Nintendo Gameboy. Not that, obviously, I ever do play it with my eyes closed, but I m fairly confident I could if need be (or for a bet). Back in the mid-1990s, it was one of the first games I ever completed and it blew my mind at the time. Sure, I loved Super Mario Land, but this was different - Wario was mean! It made a change to play as the bad guy rather than as the unlikely hero trying to rescue a princess or as a blue hedgehog saving trapped animals. Who wants to do all that when you can profit instead? That was one of the driving forces behind why I loved Wario Land.
Falling astronauts. 14 April 2021
There is a surprising amount of art on the moon. There s a whole museum, allegedly - although it s very hard to confirm it s really up there. Who s going to check? You? Me?
The Moon Museum is pretty small as museums go - it s a piece of ceramic wafer, 19 by 13mm in size. It contains tiny images from six artists, and it s attached - allegedly - to the Apollo 12 Lunar Module, Intrepid. That means it s been up there and open to visitors since November 1969.
Nice museum! What about sculpture? There s some sculpture on the moon too. I first discovered the Fallen Astronaut several years back in the beautiful, mind-expanding Phaidon book, Universe: Exploring the Astronomical World. Buy this book. I am not being paid to say that. I am compelled. Universe is one of those books I would rescue from my house if it was burning - a massive thing that shuffles together images from space exploration and scientific study with artefa
Patella. Updated on 9 April 2021
Like a lot of people, my day begins with Joel Fagliano and his Mini crossword in the New York Times. Then, I am sad to note, my day often goes downhill. Whole hours pass in which I do not have to solve clues so I can put letters in little boxes. It s not right. Fagliano manages to make one of his Minis every day - it seems wrong to ask for more than that. Yet the day is long and the Mini is mini.
This is why Tiny Crossword s appearance on Apple Arcade is such a delight. I missed this when it was just an App Store game, but Arcade works to bring things into focus. Tiny Crossword s crosswords are the American style. No cryptics, sadly, which means that true crosswording glory lies elsewhere, with people who know which words indicate an anagram and which phrases should have you thinking about International Circulation Marks. Instead, you get straight up question-and-answer fun, which is actually great! This is the
Artefact of time. 5 April 2021
A few years ago, I had some time to kill in Huddersfield and decided to check for any interesting books in the Oxfam shop. I d never seen a copy of Granta before nor hunted one down, presuming my intelligence was below its target readership and assumed my pretentiousness lay elsewhere. (Spoiler: despite ongoing questions regarding my intelligence, it didn t.) But here it was, an issue dedicated to the best young American writers.
It included a short story by Karan Mahajan called The Anthology. I d previously read his second novel, The Association of Small Bombs, and the queasy, uncertain feelings it gave me were reason enough to make me a fan. The Anthology brought out a similarly uneasy reaction in me, as it s another dark story, one about the aftermath of a bombing and it begins in Delhi in 2000 at a literary event. It s a world away from video games, but Mahajan s focus on politics and world-building felt relevant to