By: Erin

Posted: June 17th, 2024

Originally Written: November 28th, 2023

Image courtesy of TheMovieDB

I love furious, disgusting queer art. I can’t get enough of it. Art that lives in hyperreality, art that pretends to be aloof and alien while being the most human work of all, art that loves and hates the time it comes from, inject it into my veins. I knew I was in for a treat when this movie was introduced with the hilarious byline “A Heterosexual Movie By Gregg Araki”. Heterosexual in name alone, heterosexual if only you have never seen the queer underbelly of America that Gregg Araki has, heterosexual if your only signifier of queerness is whether two characters kiss, rather than what it means when they don’t.

By: Erin

Posted: June 11th, 2024

Originally Written: July 29th, 2013

In 2013, DanganMania was running wild. orenronen’s fan translation of the first game as well as his ongoing translation of the second had lead to an influx of SomethingAwful registrations, and the games were on the cusp of going from unknowns to being fully-localized. Mutual Killing Game Fever was all over Tumblr. I decided to make a satirical press release post about a hypothetical third game, mostly to make some goofy Photoshops and to make myself laugh. Mandy helped with several names and titles, all to service the joke of American Danganronpa. There are a few good jokes here, but one that seems to fly under the radar is that the title is a reference to Marvel vs. Capcom 2. Funnily enough, the idea of a Danganronpa In America would lead to a roleplaying campaign run by Mandy and myself that connected us with some people who would become our friends for life. Even if only like three people ever found this post funny, you can’t say it wasn’t worth it.

By: Erin

Posted: June 11th, 2024

Whenever I make a change to this website, plenty more are sure to follow. I guess all I need is a push, even if that push is from myself. I hope you’ve already read my latest Blather Blog entry about my adventures in iPod hacking, but it’s hardly the last thing I’ve added to the website lately!

By: Erin

Posted: June 10th, 2024

Recently, I bought two iPods. I’ve been thinking a lot about how I used to love my iPods growing up, and how I no longer engage with music as intentionally as I used to. After using my old iPod Touch on a plane ride and thoroughly enjoying myself, I asked around online to see if there were any modern MP3 players worth getting that wouldn’t break the bank, and the overwhelming consensus was that you should just hack an iPod because with an iFixit kit and the right parts it was surprisingly easy to do. The 2nd generation Mini was said to be the cheapest and easiest, and the 5th Generation or 5.5 Classic was the most popular and had the most mods available for it. I had a Mini growing up until it broke and I replaced it with a Nano, but I had never had a Classic. One trip to a pawn shop and eBay later, I owned both!

By: Erin

Posted: June 7th, 2024

About a week-and-a-half ago I made a test post on this new version of the website. After making the new Armbar Studios website (Mandy and I’s more “professional” endeavor, if you don’t know) I was bitten by the bug of experimentation and set to work to see if it was plausible to move the EMN programming guide site to this new multisite setup I had going. I figured that if I could, it would be easier to provide brand new updates and tweaks as necessary, keeping the guides updated and blessing the world with more articles than ever.