In my time-honoured role as a devil’s advocate, I felt the need to contradict Johan Huizinga’s observation about dogs playing in his book “Homo Ludens” (a seminal text in game studies).

A little vignette of honesty about the process of reading weight books of theory about games and media and so on. Sometimes you zone back into the real world and its concerns.

We actually own a couple of these massively racist buttons and I don’t think we’re even sure why we have them at all. It led to us wondering how you get rid of such a thing without just throwing it out.

Saw a super-grouchy looking older lady on Bank street in Ottawa while sitting in a Starbucks. She had on this highly co-ordinated outfit and it just seemed correlated with her grouch factor. Plus Judy Dench.

Drew this comic from a script by Gordon Calleja. Don’t ask me where he got the ideas from. It was a lot of fun working from someone else’s idea and to present it in a new (for me) style.