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This is a reprint (with updates) of a post I made several years ago on my blog. It’s a holiday week here in the U.S., so I’m taking the week off, but I’ll be back full-speed next week! I’ve spent the last several years writing about mom-shaming, mom guilt, and the unbelievable load of work and emotional labor we expect moms to bear. Inevitably, every time I post about the gendered experience of parenting, someone comes along to point out a dad who does it all, or a mom who does less than 50%.

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“Can you tell me?” Parker Posey asks with a child-like earnestness. She’s peering at me through the screen over the top of her pink-tinted sunglasses. “I don't look at press. Tell me what everyone is saying about it.” She stares back at me, waiting for me to tell her, to illuminate her. We’re here to discuss her appearance in Ari Aster’s Beau Is Afraid, but on the agenda is a more holistic view at a career that’s spanned three decades and included classics like Coneheads, Dazed and Confused, Party Girl, The House of Yes, Waiting for Guffman, Scream 3, Best in Show, Josie and the Pussycats, The Sweetest Thing and more.

Parkinson's Law states that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." Although it is counter-intuitive, you will find that through practice and experience, there is a lot of truth to this. Projects that don't have deadlines imposed on them, even if they are self-imposed, will take a lot longer than they need to, and may suffer from feature creep and scope bloat. By setting challenging deadlines you will actually get better results.

When I was in high school, we had choices in the foreign languages we could study. You could take French, or you could not take French. That was it for languages taught in the small school I attended. It’s kind of amazing that we had that, come to think of it. Some of the neighboring small schools offered Spanish as well as French, and most, including mine, used to have Latin, but Latin was truly dead, as far as our education was concerned.

Another great concepts is the snag concept. This is a staple of Noel Mazzone and his offense and can be run from 2x2 or 3x1 formations. “Mazzone’s snag concept is one of the best in the game and very difficult to defend. The beauty of the snag is it puts the outside linebacker in conflict, forcing him to either defend the snag route or the swing route by the running back.  The coaching point on this is the outside wr will run his route at a 45  degree towards the middle of the field.

This column is “Past meets present,” the aim of which is to look back at game franchises and games that are in the news and topical again thanks to a sequel, a remaster, a re-release, and so on. Previous entries in this series can be found through this link. Just what constitutes the Oasis series of games is up in the air. If you’re from Japan or Europe, then, without question, The Story of Thor and its sequel-prequel, The Story of Thor 2, are it, even if the word “Oasis” never comes into play — even the translations of the Japanese subtitles for the games avoid the term.

This column is “Past meets present,” the aim of which is to look back at game franchises and games that are in the news and topical again thanks to a sequel, a remaster, a re-release, and so on. Previous entries in this series can be found through this link. You probably know Suikoden, or at least know of Suikoden. But as the subhed above says, Suikoden isn’t what Gensei Suikoden is, even if there’s an implication there.

Thanks for catching that, my fingers went on autopilot there I guess. I do not know Marsh, but my knowledge of gaming YouTubers is also lacking. I'd be interested in checking those out, though, because as popular as modern Megami Tensei et al are, the older ones are still kind of locked away despite their importance. Expand full comment ncG1vNJzZmiqlam%2FsMTPZ6qumqOprqS3jZympmegZL2iv9NmpJ6dpKh6sb7ErJynrF2ixrTAxKuwZqyfrLKze8KopKadnqnA