When it comes to “geek spaces” none is more personal than the screens we toil away on, whether for profession, profit, or passion.
Declassify >Small Oddities
“Feed My Golf Monster,” A Review of Alice Cooper, Golf Monster
Alice Cooper has multiplatinum albums along with a sustained rock career, plenty of newspaper column inches attributed to him, a syndicated radio show, and he’s done countless interviews, but to really get to know him you have to grab your clubs and join him on the golf course.
Second to that, reading his autobiography “Alice Cooper, Golf Monster: A Rock ‘n’ Roller’s 12 Steps to Becoming a Golf Addict” is also a great idea for fans of his music, his vaudevillian shows, or his golf game.
Declassify >“The Book of Bond” is An Intriguing Book from a Bygone Era
It’s a rare and out of print book, but I kept an eye out for it on eBay for a while… Then it popped back up on my radar and within a price, I would reasonably pay.
It’s interesting that I had read the parody or spoof of this book How to Archer first, but there’s something about reading the straight-laced version, especially in today’s social and cultural climate that makes this feel almost like a spoof of itself, more so than what Archer did. However, it’s just a relic of its time.
Declassify >Need for Speed: The Run feels like a “Grown Up” Cruis’n USA
Racing “The Run” a 3000-mile event from San Francisco to New York, Jack Rourke needs to finish first. He is in debt to the mob and needs to get out.
It is that simple in story mode.
The Run is broken into 10 stages because even for a game, having you drive all 3000 miles from coast to coast would be a bit excessive.
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Hunting Down the Future in 1997: A Review of Hard, Soft and Wet by Melanie McGrath
Melanie McGrath’s Hard, Soft and Wet: Digital Generation Comes of Age is a memoir of sorts where she is hunting “down the future, starting with the everyday intimations of tomorrow — the games, gadgets, and consumer fads — that were already an invisible part of so many young lives and I would work my way up to the networks, which will, in their turn, become a mundane part of the lives of those children’s children, and perhaps also of my own children.”
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