(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) Real fun is subversive. I’m not talking fun that offends. Offense isn’t subversive. Fun that offends is trapped by its need to offend, lacking the sense … Continue reading
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) I’m a fan of Rifftrax and Mystery Science Theater 3000. This is because I love B movies and odd things, often they’re more revealing of the … Continue reading
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) Earlier I posted on how there’s two different ways to connect to Media. I summed it up roughly as follows: Known Connections: A fiction reaches us … Continue reading
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) I saw this fascinating Tweet thread when @itsashleyoh asked how people make friends as adult. This is something that’s often troubled me after college, and is … Continue reading
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) Raise your hand if you ever had someone tell you that they want people to “keep their politics out of books/comics/games/tv” and so on. Now, put … Continue reading
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) Right now it’s a challenging time for many of us. Politics is a nightmare. Wages are stagnant and the inevitable recession looms while US economic policy … Continue reading
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) Thus it is that the Great man abides by what is solid, and eschews what is flimsy; dwells with the fruit and not with the flower. … Continue reading
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) I’ve been writing (a lot) about fun and how we ruin fun, as well as how we ruin it for others. So let me take a … Continue reading
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) Last week in my seemingly (but not actually) endless discussion of how we ruin fun and why, I explored the possibility that we can combine work … Continue reading
(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr. Find out more at my newsletter.) After writing about how we destroy fun and how we sometimes monetize fun inappropriately, I’d like to address this question: Is it Healthy to Make Money … Continue reading