Unwinnable - Part 31

A screenshot from The Case of the Golden Idol, featuring a bell tower wreathed in climbing ivy, a surprised man in a wig and ascot, a woman in mourning with a lace veil, a pinheaded man with small John Lennon glasses, and an ominous gravestone that reads "Sebastian Cloudsley 1733 - 1786"

A Tale of Two Relics

By Madison Butler • January 13th, 2023

Comparing and contrasting 2022’s The Case of the Golden Idol and 2018’s Return of the Obra Dinn.

Screenshot from Mitski's Working for the Knife video, where she is wearing silk pajamas and cuddling very close to a wooden banister

Working for the Knife (and Being the Knife)

By Sara Khan • January 12th, 2023

When I see Mitski for myself, I am tip-toed, leaning this way and that, reaching for an angle to see her over that glowing phone screen-sea.

Here's the Thing

Two close-ups on a Transformer toy's head and face. Each image is slightly different, as if gremlins were playing with the settings on the production line at the Transformer toy factory.

Gremlins in My Toys

By Rob Rich • January 12th, 2023

Rob notes that gremlins – as a metaphorical concept – aren’t just a problem for the usual suspects. They can also gum up the works during action figure manufacturing.

Forms in Light

An artist's interpretation of several small gremlins tinkering with the wings and body of a WWII bomber plane.

Gremlins on Board

By Justin Reeve • January 11th, 2023

Before there was the movie, there was the real thing. I’m of course talking about the little monsters that tear apart airplanes whenever pilots aren’t looking.

Screenshot from Pentiment, where a person in scholarly robes is standing by a destroyed building talking to a young villager, the scholar is saying "Good, good. Keep the faith."

Pentiment: Thirteen Ways to Look at a Murder

By Francisco Dominguez • January 10th, 2023

Once you’ve dismantled religious conviction and the formative myths behind a place’s existence, what comes next?

Casting Deep Meteo

A close-up of the gremlin Brain from Gremlins 2. He looks a bit more intelligent than his brethren due to the wire-rimmed glasses magnifying his yellow-red eyes.

Stripe, Mohawk, Brainy, Linux, Windows

By Levi Rubeck • January 10th, 2023

It’s a miracle any hardware, software, or network has run as long as they have, and we are best not considering that miracle and its ties to nuclear armament systems and whatnot. Better to concern ourselves with the gremlins in our own home, for now.

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