Episode 102: Cocktail Naming Contest + I Crown My Top Lightweight Game of 2025

Drink of the Week (2:28)
Get in on the naming contest for our Chief Mixologist’s plum liqueur-and-whiskey drink. I’m sending goodies out to the clever bastard who submits the winning name.

Game of the Week (5:21)
Something’s wrong in the lush paradise of Ululu. Dickheads are showing up there just to score points; they don’t care about the ceremonies anymore and all the locals have started podcasts. Faraway is still my light multiplayer game of the 2025, though.

Track of the Week (20:38)
In honor of Open Mike Eagle’s killer new hip hop album list-building on YouTube, we’re playing a couple slices of “(How Could Anybody) Feel at Home” from his 2017 album.

New on the Blog: The Best Similes from Ballard’s The Drowned World
This spring I heard a beautiful reading of J.G. Ballard’s The Drowned World, his first novel from 1962, and was so struck by his language and ideas that I tracked down a paperback copy just to harvest my favorite sentences that had similes. The harvest is over and I have recorded them all for you.