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In order to prep everyone for video game rehab, I have compiled seven of the most interesting video gamey things I stumbled across during my research.
Enjoy.
Video Game Rehab Prep Day 1: How Gamers Will Save the World
Foldit Gamers Solve Riddle of HIV Enzyme Within 3 Weeks
Video Game Rehab Prep Day 2: Not all violent game players are violent (as beautifully demonstrated by this boy singing over Call of Duty):
Video Game Rehab Prep Day 3: Video game music is getting rill rill good.
So I made a playlist with a song for every chapter in CURE.
Video Game Rehab Prep Day 4: There are V-habs in China . . . and they are intense:
Video Game Rehab Prep Day 5: This day was horribly tragic, so I dedicated it to LGBTQIA characters and difficult experiences:
Video Game Rehab Prep Day 6: Sexism in video games as examined through strategic butt coverings:
And on Video Game Rehab Eve . . .
The finest video I've seen on game addiction:
Welcome to V-hab, everyone.
Cure for the Common Universe is out today. :)
Here's the thing. I only want you to read it if you REALLY want to. I think we should all be reading the books that challenge us, but more importantly, the ones that keep us reading. You can read some professional reviews and a synopsis here. Or you can check out some opinions on Goodreads. You'll know if the book is up your alley.
My goal for CFTCU is to get it to as many kids like the boy pictured as possible CURE meant a lot to this kid. So much he could barely find the words to tell me about it. So long as I know that the kids who could use this book at least know it exists, then this will have been a success.
So how can you help? Yes, you can go review the book on Goodreads and vote for it on the lists you see there. You can rate it on Amazon (apparently CURE won't show up on Amazon's radar until I have fifty reviews). You can ask your local library if they have a copy (or eight). But mostly you can recommend it to someone whom you believe would love it. Send a link to a kid who loves video games. Or someone who's interested in addiction. Or someone who gets lonely. (Okay, the umbrella's getting a little too wide now.) Any way you can help the book find more readers like this kid would be so greatly appreciated.
So long as there are kids like the one above reading CURE, I'll be happy. So long as you are reading the books that inspire you, I'll be happy.
And, of course, I'll always love your collective guts.
Hearts and thanks you's.
C
I've been rummaging, dear readers, rummaging through every drawer in the valley. Alas, I failed to find any undiscovered writing talents . . . That is until I peeked in my very own costume closet.
I present to you Mr. C. Chambers. A true craftsman of language. By simply watching this video, you will drink deeply of imagery and rhythms and discover an ever-expanding palette of choices for your very own body.
Enjoy. I know you will.
Video credit: Brian Green.
Sound credit: the lovely acoustics of Breana Reichert's costumes.
P.S. The lights have minds of their own.
P.P.S. No cats were murdered by dogs in this video . . . even if it sounds like it.
I have friends, dear readers. I have crazy talented friends. (Note the lack of comma.) But instead of spreading their work around the internet, these friends keep their talent to themselves for the most part, hidden away, tucked in drawers . . .
A part of me is grateful. If they were to send out their pieces, my work would wither in comparison.
So it is beyond my better judgement to introduce you to one of my talented friends today. His name is Jason Dickerson. He's a poet.
Sing his praise in the comments if you'd like.
Ah, loves, it's some'm particularlarily special today. Watch me review a comic book about beards whilst getting my beard trimmed. (I don't use the word 'whilst' often. This feels appropriate.)
Questions answered in this video:
Watch the video below, read the amazing Gigantic Beard that was Evil by Stephen Collins, and then whisper to me about the times you've caught hell for doing something super sexy awesome with your style.
Watch Curtis Whitear’s sparkly, crawly rendition of my reading of Lord Dunsany’s unnerving short short!
Why? Well, in it . . .
(The foxes made me do it, I swear.)
Admit it. You've always wanted me to chase you through the woods while I read a poem about the dark things that come of love and wishes. Well . . .
Dreams. Come. True.
