Apollo Lemmon – play, politics & peculiarities

Tiny Islands

Tiny Islands is an online map drawing game that reminds me a lot of my favourite board game, Carcassonne. To draw the map, 2 cards

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Stack Clean: Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe Again #4

Deadpool is a character I like a lot in some settings. I think he was a wonderful foil in the Cable & Deadpool (2004) series

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Run 2019.11.16

Today getting a run in meant dashing to the store, grabbing groceries and running home. It wasn't so bad and made the shopping a bit

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Run 2019.11.15

The mission I was running today was full of arguing between Jody and Amelia and it dawned on me that Jody is now likely my

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Music 2019.11.08-2019.11.14

A lot of my listening this week has been driven by what I play for my daughter. Starting to play Ella Jenkins performances for her

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Run 2019.11.14

I didn't run for nearly a week due to a collision of obligations and weather, but it was great to get moving in the crisp

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Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna ~ The Golden Country

With a new Pokémon game arriving tomorrow, I happened to wrap up the big game I had been savouring before playing it. Playing Xenoblade Chronicles

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The Cromcast on Dune

The Cromcast uses Robert E. Howard as a touchstone to talk about speculative fiction and the inheritors of the pulp legacy. They most recently wrapped

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Project 365 2019.11.05-2019.11.11

I’ve been taking at least one photo for each day and sharing them on my FrozenTruth.com account at apollo.

Stack Clean: Eugenic #1

Eugenic #1, unlike the past few issues I've cleared from my stack, was engaging. The central science fiction premise is interesting, and the delivery makes

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Stack Clean: The Eltingville Club #1

The Eltingville Club #1 is another of those comics I'm just not set up to enjoy. It was a slog through the recounting of the

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Stack Clean: Legacy of Luther Strode #1

I'm not the target audience for many of the comics I got in the grab bag that make up what's left in my stack. Legacy

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Stack Clean: The Multiversity: Pax Americana #1

I've liked the Grant Morrison comics I've read before, but I wasn't sure I had the appetite for his take on Watchmen in The Multiversity:

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Stack Clean: Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons #1

I continued to read through my stack of comics and came to an oddity, a mashup of something I love and something I'm apathetic about.

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Run 2019.11.08

I enjoyed heading through the Fairview Cemetery again on my run today and then winding a bit through the north end. I couldn't help smiling

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Music 2019.11.01-2019.11.07

My music listening this week was full of favourites, from communist hip hop to socialist jazz to 90s dance-influenced pop.

Run 2019.11.07

I woke early this morning to run before working at home for the day. It was a good run overall, but I did encounter my

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Kiesza – You’re The Best

Kiesza has an uncanny ability to perform earworm dance songs. Her latest, "You're The Best", brings the 90s influences of her previous hits along and

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Run 2019.11.06

Loaded up with a heavy backpack, I headed out on a run along a path I've run legs of before but hadn't run in exactly

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Assorted Articles VII

I have more articles on politics from my backlog of bookmarks I want to share. In "Who Owns Tomorrow?" Chloe Watlington framed social justice in

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Project 365 2019.10.29-2019.11.04

For 11 weeks I've been taking at least one photo for each day and sharing them on my FrozenTruth.com account at apollo. I'm still enjoying the routine of

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Tobu Tobu Girl Deluxe

Tobu Tobu Girl Deluxe, a new Game Boy Color game, has been released after a successful Kickstarter campaign and the release of a great soundtrack.

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Stack Clean: Aliens: Dead Orbit #4

I found myself jumping on at the last issue of an Aliens comic, Aliens: Dead Orbit #4. I like James Stokoe's art quite a lot

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Zombies, Run! Halloween 2019 Virtual Race 10K

I woke early and headed out for the Zombies, Run! Halloween 2019 Virtual Race 10K. I ran the 5k in October and had been waiting

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Stack Clean: Green Valley #3

I'm getting to the comics in my stack that I don't know much about, and here's the first disappointing issue. I understand Max Landis is

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Run 2019.11.01

I have continued to look for little variations for my runs home and it has been nice to have some different views passing by.

Cory Docorow’s “Affordances”

This week Cory Doctorow shared a podcast reading of his short story "Affordances", originally published in Slate. It's a compelling look at how bad technology,

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Music 2019.10.25-2019.10.31

My listening for the past week illustrates what has been happening in my life since Celestine was born. I've been trying to find music for

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Aftermath

As a backer of the crowdfunding campaign for Chelsea McBride's Socialist Night School's Aftermath, I've had the pleasure of listening to this album since August.

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Celestine at Halloween

For Halloween I put together matching costumes for my daughter Celestine and me to wear. I was a Pokémon professor (Professor Lemon, of course) and

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Leonard Cohen – “Happens to the Heart”

Leonard Cohen's voice has been present in all of my life. Some of my earliest memories of music were his songs, with "Closing Time" coming

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Run 2019.10.30

I tried to vary my route again today, treading the same territory but going down a different path. It has been nice to rerun these

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Game Boy Works Advance on Castlevania: Circle of the Moon

Jeremy Parish has continued his Game Boy Works Advance video series with another favourite of mine, Castlevania: Circle of the Moon. It's definitely a flawed

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