Author Archives: kunzelman

Oil Spills In Peru

Posted on 02/23/2016 by kunzelman

Read the account here. The logic here is astonishing yet unsurprising: destroy the ecology of a place and then subsidize the correction of that destruction by making agents who live in that ecology take care of the problem. If, in … Continue reading →

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Joanne Barker on Cuts to the College of Ethnic Studies at SFSU

Posted on 02/22/2016 by kunzelman

The truth is that ever since the formation of Ethnic Studies, public officials and university administrators have been trying to “roll back” the changes. They have not used striker and subsequent critiques of higher education as an occasion to question … Continue reading →

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Imran Khan on Gamestop in Puerto Rico

Posted on 02/17/2016 by kunzelman

Part of the problem is the Jones Act, also known as the Merchant Marine Act of 1920. It is profoundly dry reading, but its profundity to Puerto Rican retailers is hard to understate. The Jones Act essentially requires that all … Continue reading →

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Pee-Wee’s Big Holiday

Posted on 02/16/2016 by kunzelman

I enjoy Pee-Wee Herman. I have no further statement.

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30 Years of Trinity Islands

Posted on 02/15/2016 by kunzelman

Earlier today Twitter user @PointlessDude reached out to me to show me the abomination he has created in Rollercoaster Tycoon. He’s played Trinity Islands, a level in the game that I recently completed myself, for a long time. I think the normal … Continue reading →

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Pro Tour Oath of the Gatewatch

Posted on 02/12/2016 by kunzelman

I went to the latest Pro Tour event, and you can read my write up of the event over at Paste.

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On Jessa Crispin’s “The Dead Ladies Project”

Posted on 02/11/2016 by kunzelman

The Dead Ladies Project is a collection of essays centered around Jessa Crispin’s travels in the shadows of the writers she’s fascinated with. The subtitle, “Exiles, Expats, & Ex-Countries,” almost doesn’t manage to touch what’s actually going on in the volume, … Continue reading →

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On Broken Age

Posted on 02/10/2016 by kunzelman

A few weeks ago I played through Broken Age, the “Double Fine Adventure” that went through a rollercoaster of development, release, and fan-relationship troubles. It’s an adventure-game-ass adventure game, and being true to the lineage of a very particular time period … Continue reading →

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Oath of the Gatewatch’s Most Interesting Cards

Posted on 02/09/2016 by kunzelman

I’ve been writing lists of the most interesting cards of the most recent Magic: The Gathering sets, and the articles are somewhere between useful and total frivolity. I just wrote another one about Oath of the Gatewatch. I’m literally writing about the … Continue reading →

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Constance Penley on Fan Fiction and NASA

Posted on 02/08/2016 by kunzelman

I got back into space and its fictions in the mid-1980s by hanging out with some very interesting women from around the country who write homoerotic, pornographic, utopian romances that take place in the Star Trek universe. Fellow academics have suggested that … Continue reading →

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