Author Archives: kunzelman

On Kill Screen #3: The Intimacy Issue

Posted on 04/06/2011 by kunzelman

I like Kill Screen. It is a magazine that pushes all my buttons in a lot of different ways. On face, it’s a small-sized print magazine about video games. But it’s so much more than that, at least for me. … Continue reading →

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On King, More, and Factory Farms

Posted on 03/07/2011 by kunzelman

I just finished Stephen King’s Full Dark, No Stars. It was alright, not the best thing ever, but the first novella, “1922,” is damn near perfect. It hits all the high notes while avoiding most of the low ones. The … Continue reading →

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On Awkwardness

Posted on 02/25/2011 by kunzelman

I finished Adam Kotsko’s Awkwardness yesterday. I think that it was good, if slim, and the content works for what Kotsko is doing–laying out the nature of awkwardness, how we experience it, and ways to combat (or rather, embrace) it. … Continue reading →

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A Short Review of “The King of Limbs”

Posted on 02/24/2011 by kunzelman

I’ve been listening to Radiohead’s new album on repeat the past couple days. I think that it’s beautiful, and probably the first album of theirs that I have really enjoyed since Amnesiac. There’s a beautiful mix of both “technical”-feeling songs … Continue reading →

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The Power of Comics

Posted on 02/23/2011 by kunzelman

I don’t read many monthly comics (I don’t have the cash), but this panel from this week’s issue of Amazing Spider-Man might force me to go out and buy one. I think this is the power of comics: the ability … Continue reading →

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On Little Big Planet 2

Posted on 01/30/2011 by kunzelman

There are not very many things that get me on this blog anymore, but Little Big Planet 2 has set off some kind of crazy thoughtengine in my brain, and I can’t stop thinking about it. I am about to … Continue reading →

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On Minecraft

Posted on 01/06/2011 by kunzelman

(click images to make them screen-sized, forgive my toolbar) I am smitten with Minecraft. I can’t stop playing it. I am addicted in a way that feels good—like people are “addicted” to watching sports. You just want to do it, … Continue reading →

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The Decaying South

Posted on 12/27/2010 by kunzelman

So I come home about once every six months. “Home” is in the northern part of Georgia, between Chattanooga and Rome. It’s that dead space that’s riddled with bypasses and completely avoided by the age-old I75 that runs down to … Continue reading →

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On Eisner/Miller

Posted on 12/21/2010 by kunzelman

Eisner/Miller is the most important book ever written about comic books. It’s probably more important than 95% of the comic books that are being produced, honestly. The book is just an interview, a long one, where Will Eisner and Frank … Continue reading →

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The End of Proust

Posted on 12/09/2010 by kunzelman

The body immures the mind within a fortress; presently on all sides the fortress is beseiged and in the end, inevitably, the mind has to surrender. – Proust, Time Regained p. 512 There’s something bitter about an ending. I’ve had … Continue reading →

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