Reading List

The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

Why Black Internet Is Obsessed With Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham’s Petty Break up Onstage

As a cryptic social media post has some wondering if they're planning a reunion, Black fans of Fleetwood Mac can't stop talking about a powerful onstage moment in 1997 between the two star vocalists.

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Everyone can play Soulframe, the fantasy Warframe, right now

If you’ve ever wanted to kill someone with a leaf and adopt a wolf puppy, now is your chance: Soulframe’s pre-alpha build is open to the public for a limited time. Soulframe: Preludes is being made available to anyone who has signed up on the Soulframe website as part of developer Digital Extremes’ TennoCon weekend […]

All Kong Bananza City Smash Banandium Gems in Donkey Kong Bananza

The Kong Bananza: City Smash challenge in Donkey Kong Bananza is a little confusing initially, courtesy of the fractone running the challenge telling you absolutely nothing about what to do. Smashing concrete is only part of the job. If you want all three Banandium Gems from this challenge, you’ll have to power through it with […]

Myke Hurley Interviews Yours Truly for the Cortex ‘State of the Workflow’ Series

Myke Hurley:

For this episode, I took a slightly different approach for the main section, following step-by-step how John writes and publishes an article. I think this is a template I want to follow with future guests, taking a detailed look at what they do from beginning to end.

I’m so pleased with how this interview turned out — I actually think it may be one of the best of my career. I’ve never had the chance to have a one-on-one podcast with John before, and I’m happy we waited until now to make it happen.

We spoke for a long time, and at some point like halfway through, it really hit me that Hurley was asking really good questions. If you’re interested in how I work and the tools I use, you should enjoy listening to this interview as much as I enjoyed participating in it.

Puck: ‘Was Colbert’s Cancellation Really “Economic” for CBS?’

Matthew Belloni, writing at Puck (paywall-busting gift link) regarding the claim from anonymous CBS sources that The Late Show lost $40 million last year:

Nobody can know for sure. All I can tell you is what I’m hearing. Several sources at both CBS and Skydance insist the decision was based on economics, not politics. After all, if this was about appeasing Trump, they argue, Cheeks would have pulled Colbert off the air ASAP rather than giving him 10 more months in the chair. “Trust me, there’s no conspiracy,” a very good source close to Colbert told me tonight. Still, two other people with deep ties to CBS and Late Show suspect otherwise. After all, when a network decides that a show is too expensive, executives typically go to the key talent and ask them to take pay cuts, fire people, or otherwise slash costs. That didn’t happen here — though with Colbert said to be making between $15 million and $20 million per year, a pay cut wouldn’t have solved the problem on its own. And given the company’s willingness to fold to Trump, there’s no reason for you or me to think they would stand up to any political pressure, or resist any specific demand (which, of course, is the reason to not settle frivolous litigation…). If Chris McCarthy, Cheeks’s counterpart on the cable TV side, cancels The Daily Show in the next couple weeks, I think we’ll have a good idea what’s going on. But for now, I cautiously (and skeptically) believe that this was mostly an economic decision.