This week we’re talking video games with my friend, writer and editor extraordinaire, Allison Alexander. Allison is the Editorial Director for Mythos and Ink, a small Winnipeg-based press with a passion for publishing great stories and the community built around them. We talk about her early love of Commodore 64 games, her deep and abiding love of Zelda, and being a female gamer.
Multi-award winning Winnipeg Free Press columnist Melissa Martin joins me to talk about the many things she nerds hard for: languages, history, Japan. Melissa and I have been social media friends for years, but this is the first time we sat down (virtually) to talk. And she didn’t disappoint. Melissa is supersmart and her enthusiasm for everything from Roman concrete to curling.
This week’s episode is an audio essay about my love of the show Mystery Science Theater 3000 and how it helped create community while I was in University.
The original version of this essay appeared on the now defunt Area of Effect site. I’m very grateful to my friends at Mythos & Ink Publishing for permission to reproduce this expanded audio version and for including that classic version in their upcoming book, Always Look Up (and Other Wisdom I Learned from Geek Culture that Changed My Life) — Area of Effect, Vol. 2 (coming Oct 2020).