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Well, Thanksgiving has been correctly disposed of, with much of the eating and the drinking and subsequent dieting, yeugh. Now it's time for the post-Thanksgiving festivities, which consist of listening to Mazzy Star, watching TiVo, and updating FFWD. Go, me!

My interview with Ensemble's Bruce Shelley is up on the Gamasutra site now (free registration required), and I'm reasonably pleased with how it turned out. Bruce has had a very interesting history, what with his connection to Sid Meier, and his role in the immensely popular Age Of Empires series, so it was good to get feedback on the kind of heritage that's begotten such a popular, classy set of games - my gaming tastes run a little more console-y, but I can still appreciate fine craft when I see it.

Also updated just now is my modsoulbrother site, in which we continue collecting some of the best and most neglected freely downloadable .MODs from the Amiga and PC demo-scenes, since, well, that's my heritage. This time, we added the .MODs from label Tokyo Dawn that were sadly removed when they decided to get a little revisionist about history and remove them from scene.org - there's some great stuff in here, too, and they're still labeled as freely distributable, so I'm not sinning by putting them up in my little corner of the Web.

Some gaming has been going on chez moi, too, primarily the cornucopia of goodness presented in Midway Arcade Treasures - I'd forgotten just how fun Marble Madness and Paperboy are - but also the PC demo of TrackMania, which is a super-addictive little track-building PC driving title, quite like a 3D Elastomania, as many have remarked.

Oh, and I don't even like airplanes, and I'm addicted to the Mojave Airport weblog - they sure do have some nice-looking aircraft out there in the middle of the desert.