Welp! Moving has me busy as hell, and actually made me miss my first day! That was to be expected, I suppose. Since I’m still in the thick of it, but don’t want a double-miss on my record, how about we check in with what other folks are doing around the web?

Art Corner

• Here’s a really beautiful collection of illustrations, titled “Calendar for a small northern Russian city,” that made its way across my desk via Behance:
• https://www.behance.net/gallery/113132465/Calendar-for-a-small-northern-Russian-city

Weird good video game news

• This truly wild piece from the AV Club about a once-in-a-lifetime cosmic phenomenon giving a Super Mario 64 speedrunner an unexpected edge really scratched a particular Weird Video Game News itch:
• https://news.avclub.com/sorry-a-literal-cosmic-ion-ray-boost-to-your-super-mar-1846250037

Normal bad politics news

• If you were wondering just how far left the Biden administration would lean…well, you’re pretty naive I guess. Here’s some shitty news about his continuation of shitty US foreign policy:
• https://www.liberationnews.org/bidens-first-directive-to-the-war-machine/

Dispatch from the South Pole

• Here’s an incredible story about a guy who lost his wallet in Antarctica in the 60s and actually just got it back:
• https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/us/paul-grisham-antarctica-lost-wallet.html

Chuckle Zone

• And finally, here’s a great post from The Hard Times that I found while searching for Boktai screenshots:
• https://thehardtimes.net/harddrive/nasa-announces-that-you-wont-be-able-to-play-boktai-anymore-after-the-sun-dies/

That’s it for me on this fine Saturday evening. I’m back to more moving tomorrow, bright and early. Here’s hoping I have enough stamina to write a post as well.