"Joyeux" Noel Murray

Check out this thread of personal and heartfelt thanks to the small games businesses that make the hobby great. (And check out the great games mentioned, too!)

Editor: You add those smell squiggles to the iStock photo?
Illustrator: Sure did boss, real fuckin stinky just like you asked.
Editor: excellent

Post-True/False, too. It confused me the first time I got a press release about it. (But I'm glad it's getting a release this year, so I don't have to bump it off my list.)

My Top 5 docs (all of which are also currently in my Top 25 movies for this year) are 1. Predators 2. Teenage Wasteland 3. Zodiac Killer Project 4. One To One 5. Pavements.

Unseen: Grand Theft Hamlet, My Undesirable Friends, Secret Mall Apartment.

CURLWORKS

Apparently not for sale any more but I have been told it came from here: www.curlworks.net

Trimming the tree, to Music To Trim Your Tree By

yo when they ask 60s dudes for a list of albums so often it's "cool great yes you like Rubber Soul. oh Beggars Banquet too? AND Sgt. Pepper? wild choices" but Jorma Kaukonen's list is really good!

Children of a Lesser God?

True, but on the flip side, their defense had been allowing points by the dozens. Given how often we had the ball, we should've scored way more.

(Actually I have a lot of respect for the Yellowjackets, my brother and two of my brothers-in-law are alums, their current coach seems like a good dude, and I my Bulldogs didn't exactly dominate.)

Georgia Tech vs Georgia:

Looks to be seven unique versions on NYA

Looking forward to the "Oops, All 'Wondering'" collection.

Haven't listened to the anniversary edition of one of my Top 10 all-time favorite albums in full yet but you better believe I rushed to read STE's take on this version.

We played Half Truth, a trivia game co-created by Ken Jennings and Richard Garfield. It's one of our favorites, and there's a new expansion called Second Guess that we hadn't tried before. (The original version is better, we decided.)

Visual development art from KPOP Demon Hunters by Stephen Neary and Tiffany Pham

- DO NOT GET DISTRACTED BY VERY HANDSOME FACES + BODIES
- LITERALLY EVIL
- THEY KILL PEOPLE
- tax evasion

Play Pips, our new dominoes game for all skill levels. Every domino has a spot. Can you find where each belongs?

Fastest time yet on the Hard Pips. Both my kids have, in the past, finished the Hard in under a minute. (You get a cookie emoji if you do that.) Doubt I’ll ever do that well.

Pips #103 Hard 🔴
1:03

www.nytimes.com/games/pips

The Secret Life of a Ski Resort

One of the most fun stories I've ever worked on! And it was a privilege to team up with the amazing photographer Ruth Fremson. I'll never forget watching the sun rise over Mineral Basin. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/t...

Ebenezer Scrooge: Goes outside 500 Muppets: There goes Mr Asshole! There Goes Mr Bitch!

with the holiday season now officially upon us, it's time to start playing our favorite christmas songs

here's one of mine

I cook while the parade’s on, we eat right around the time the football starts, then I have plenty of time for an afternoon nap, a piece of midafternoon pie, a tabletop game and then sandwiches for dinner. It’s our tradition!

“Say goodnight, Gracie.”

YouTube video by WEIRDO: The Story of Five Eight WEIRDO: THE STORY OF FIVE EIGHT feature documentary trailer (2024)

There's a documentary about them that I haven't watched, but I should. Probably saw them live at least once a month for my entire four years at college, plus a few more times after I graduated. youtu.be/VGy4RcK2mDE?...

The Athens GA rock trio Five-Eight (still around!) crashed in my basement -- more accurately, my parents' basement -- during a tour stop in Nashville. I remember we watched a Simpsons episode I had recorded during their gig, and I had to take the bass player to a clinic because he had the flu.

This is a day when people gather together across our great nation, from Fire Country to Sheriff Country.

HAMNET (Chloé Zhao, 2025)

That rocked!

Nah, some folks legit don't like turkey, that's fine. What's really telling here is that this dope can't conceive of anyone having different tastes than his own, and that his immediate presumption is that anyone who disagrees with him is lying.

Pretty sure I've offered this response before!

Thanksgiving Dinner: Turkey, cornbread dressing, sour cream and chive mashed potatoes, gravy, glazed carrots, green bean casserole, cranberry jelly, cinnamon rolls.