emily hummel

Truly, the culture wars were a helluva time to talk about memory / memorialization or anything like that, let alone build a monument 😬

Oh this is a fascinating read! I so loved living in the DC area because of its rich, complicated, and bizarre history that permeates everything (like, I wrote my master's thesis on the rollercoaster that is the WWII memorial) and is so often written off, so I can't wait to read the whole series

Point/Counterpoint This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won't Share Published: March 26, 2003

Time is a flat circle

La La Land was also my answer to this for exactly that reason hahahaha

Cinematic Void Presents THE APPLE - American Cinematheque

How to describe THE APPLE??

A movie that contains an evil music executive, rock opera, God in a Rolls Royce, Canadian folk music stars, actual sequence set in Hell, and one vampire.

Time to watch it on the big screen as Mr Boogalow intended:
www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...

Thousand Year Old Campfire, or Old Morris Cave: A Continuous Use Camps Thousand Year Old Campfire or Old Morris Cave: A Continuous Use Campsite in Mammoth Cave National Park, an Excavation  Thanks to Tim Hutchings, you will believe that a hole full of broken pots and ani...

Oooh I've always wanted to run the Quiet Year!! In terms of mapping games, Old Morris Cave is adjacent but it has you build out a strata chart which is so much fun thousandyearoldvampire.com/products/tyoc

Gabor Boritt, Refugee Who Became Expert on Lincoln, Dies at 86

It was such an honor to work as one of Gabor's research assistants in college, to attend so many Civil War Institutes, and have him as a mentor and advisor. He made me love Lincoln, but also to focus on the smaller stories of the Civil War & I am forever grateful.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/b...

this idea rules so much and I cannot wait to see when it comes to fruition

they were so good 😭

a person bundled into a tauntaun shaped sleeping bag in a snow field wearing goggles

Think Geek catalog page featuring the Tauntaun Sleeping Bag with my photo as the "customer action shot"

a moment in time: sixteen years ago I took a tauntaun sleeping bag outside into "Snowmaggedon" in DC and then it got put in the Think Geek catalog

a screenshot of go-go town with maybe 40 horses I can't count

great news their animations are somewhat synced so they all stare at the same time

a screeshot of Go-Go Town! where I generated 18 horses

this is why I shouldn't be allowed to have dev tools 😌

we are back from our adventure at sea (with some wild swells) and have now put our cute merit badges and patches up for sale if you want to get some!

Anyone who is part of the federal government who is not doing everything in their power to stop this administration, regardless of the assumed cost to normalcy or career, is a coward and a collaborator.

Oooh I'll add that too! I loved Temeraire & Spinning Silver

same same same! also I just started The Everlasting by Alix Harrow and I am super digging it, heartily recommend

Ahh so exciting!!! 🐦‍⬛

report #3 on the "did you feel it" for an earthquake... riding high, my friends earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Go-Go Town! on Steam Thank god you’re here Mayor - you’ve got LOTS of work to do! In this city building sim, you’re responsible for the layout, logistics optimisation, population growth - all whilst navigating the everyda...

I’m on the Go-Go Town! team so very biased 😉 but I’m so excited to see it come to 1.0 this year store.steampowered.com/app/2195120/...

And also VERY excited for Big Walk!

HELL yeah

both of us will ride these highs for years tbh

Oooh I loved Matrix & Piranisi, and am in the midst of Taiwan Travelogue now!

Recs: Ministry of Time was a lot of fun, and A River Has Roots is short but really lovely

This very much felt like the Year of The Puzzle Game. Not only because I put 200 hours into Blue Prince (what), but with Citizen Sleeper 2, The Roottrees are Dead, Immortality, Seance of Blake Manor, & the Golden Idols, I had a very fun time 🧩

(non-puzzle shoutout to Two Point Museum, I love you)

Some notable favorite new watches & reads

🎬
- Laura
- The Player
- Zodiac
- JAWS (yes I had never seen it before)
- A Few Good Men
- Sinners (duh)

📚
- Faithful Place
- Shōgun (!!!)
- Spectred Isle
- The River Has Roots & Six Deaths of the Saint, both short and delightful

a lot of movies: nosferatu, mulholland drive, laura, complete unknown, anora, royal tenenbaums, emilia perez, mickey 17, zodiac, april fool's day, top gun, heat, emperor's new groove, tampopo, sinners, black stallion, bonjour tristesse (new), conclave, bonjour tristesse (old), wise blood, friendship, hot fuzz, la confidential, godfather, ox-bow incident, fantastic 4, master & commander, naked gun, summertime, blade, superman, jaws, the player, all the president's men, castle in the sky, apollo 13, elm street 3, lebowski, conjuring, amadeus, weapons, a few good men, the haunting, frankenstein, predator badlands, singin' in the rain, rental family, wicked 2, a mighty wind

a lot of books: wicked, shogun, gentleman's gentleman, bright sword, copper script, glass maker, atmosphere, faithful place, incandescent, katabasis, paladin's grace, thief in the night, spectred isle, paladin's strength, a fashionable gentleman, paying guests, rules for ghosting, all of us murderers, trespasses, stag dance, game changer, heated rivalry, the river has roots, six deaths of the sain, eagle and the hart

a list of video games: blue prince, two point museum, citizen sleeper 2, roottrees are dead, 1000xresist, immortality, hades 2, seance of blake manor, dispatch, case of the golden idol, rise of the golden idol, proverbs, unpacking, go-go town!, dredge, tempopo, never's end

my annual Chronicling of Media for 2025. Less movies (49 vs 61), more books (26 vs 17), less games (12 vs 18)—but who's counting. Here's to a new year of good stories told and a better world and a little less need for escapism!

A series of phrases to generate Rose Parade trophy names

A long list of qualities for Rose Parade trophies

The trophy categories were my favorite bit, they’ve always been so wild to me. Here’s the back-end code & lists, these are sliced and diced from the real trophies (of course!)

Today’s the day! For all those tuning into the Rose Parade and wanting even more floats, may I present my weird lil bot 🌸🌷🪻

now that the idea of Carly Rae Jepsen writing a song for Heated Rivalry has been placed in my brain, I will spend the next year manifesting it for season 2

I did NOT know that but it makes sense being the Rose City…!

a long list of code that describes sentence structure for a bot that generates rose parade floats

a long list of non-floral material used to make rose parade floats

In terms of technical specs, it's build in Perchance and has quite a few lists that are all referencing each other to do what I want it to do. It won't award the same award twice, and the list of sponsors and florals all come from actual floats from years past.