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“...players are obsessed with roll-playing...”

Dungeons and Desktops: The History of Computer Role-Playing Games, Matt Barton

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ROLL-PLAYING.

Schroeder: "I'm player-piano instructions, obviously."

Lucy: "I'm wallpaper! A tasteful mid-70s grasscloth!"

Linus: "I guess I'm grocery store receipt paper."

Charlie Brown: "I'm a bog roll."

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Google Translate sometimes makes weird decisions

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lubericating

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same

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“These games didn’t provide the only automated entertainment in the early eighties. The same quick-and-dirty aesthetic accounted for: disposable Freddy, Jason, and Michael Myers slasher movies; a barrage of TV spinoffs (Knots Landing from Dallas, and the Facts of Life from Diff’rent Strokes); and a cavalcade of synthesizer-y New Wave music (Depeche Mode, A-Ha, and the Pet Shop Boys). But people understood that when one fad in entertainment ended (bye, Howard Jones) another would take its place (hello, Huey Lewis and the News)."

Excerpt From Super Mario, Jeff Ryan

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Amazing.

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Hm!

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hm

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The Delicious Dish ladies sold out to Capital One 😭

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TIL

(did everyone know this? I never cared for or paid attention to the AM phenomenon)

((Although she is used to good effect on _The Great North_ as Judy’s... guide? Muse? Spirit animal? Friend.))

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Reflecting on an unsuccessful recording session for “Murmur” that the band had with the glossy New Wave producer Stephen Hague, the record executive Jay Boberg tells Carlin that “their artistic impulses about what they should and shouldn’t do were dead-on.”

OK fair enough but where do I get my ears on that unsuccess? Even though he's a Mainer (a thing I just learned), S.Hague made tons of glittery UK pop that still rings my bell.

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maybe this'll be my new look. wristbands on biceps, matching scarf, pants.

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Taking joy from the little things, when possible. Nik Kershaw on Publix Radio. Surprise: it’s the slower original, not the glossier Pretty in Pink version.

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hah