Eric Garneau

@ericcgarneau.bsky.social

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I like stories, games, and their intersection. Producer: Mortified Chicago. Head person: Critical Lit Publishing. He/him. ericcgarneau.substack.com

An email from Best Buy that my order (of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth) is ready for pickup
A shot from the X-Men episode “Cry of the Banshee” that has a giant stamp reading “CUT OUT THESE FRAMES” superimposed on top of the cel.
Image of a Marvel Crisis Protocol game where Punisher is engaged with Black Panther.
Setlist for the Musicares tribute to Bon Jovi, which does indeed include Jason Isbell performing "Wanted Dead or Alive," as well as Shania Twain on "Bed of Roses" and Bruce Springsteen with Boj Jovi on "Who Says You Can't Go Home" and "The Promised Land"
Left: the original 1939 cover of The Grapes of Wrath. Center: cover for Dustland Saga: The Road of Wrath (on Kickstarter now!). Right: The JRPG Taco Bell.
Paragraph from a news article that reads: "I went through the list and found the ones that I thought were cool," he recalled to NPR over a London Fog latte. "And then she gave me her [credit] card and I bought them. It was a lot of gay books, I remember that."
A Godzilla action figure stares down the Dinobots Slag, Sludge, and Snarl.
A screenshot from Final Fantasy VI where an NPC tells Terra “Art that evokes a sense of the world’s slide into ruin is all the rage these days.”
A view out my hotel room with some nasty weather
A screenshot from Nintendo.com that notes I played Tears of the Kingdom for 95 hours.
A screenshot of an interview with Pete Sears from Jefferson Starship
a box of Super Mario RPG on the Nintendo Switch
An image of the board from Ticket to Ride: Legends of the West focusing on a translucent “ghost train” in a region called the Haunted Wastes
A Google search result for "popular comedy horrors" that includes Skinamarink
A “COVID prevention station” with snacks on it in a hotel lobby
An N-95 mask with the words “daddy baby” printed on the right cheek
The Floyd Rose bridge on my electric guitar
A hotel room exit instruction sign that reads “fire alarm sounds like a ‘whoop whoop whoop’”
A very dreary Hollywood morning at the reservoir
A thermometer named a “three-way meter” with a “moist” setting and readings for dry, wet, dark, and light.
A screenshot of podcast art for U Springin’ Springsteen On My Bean
An image of the Plainview Klown Doll Museum
A Magic the Gathering matchup
Screenshot of the SNL sketch where the band Smash Mouth lives in Nasim Pedrad's closet.
Frankie from Boy Meets World (with his dad Vader)
Acheron Publishing’s Inferno books for 5e
James from Twin Peaks
The Final Fantasy III character selection screen. My red guy is named Gene, light blue is Ace, green is Peter, pink is Paul.
A picture of my microwave that displays O:NO on the timer
banner image of Fabula Ultima, a "TTJRPG"
A sign outside a Starbucks that says “Wecome Gen Con 2018” with a poor drawing of “the wall” and a dragon from Game of Thrones
Transformers: Legacy action figures - Armada Megatron, Armada Starscream, Hot Shot, and Armada Optimus Prime.
Op-ed article headline that reads: "Facebook's Twitter alternative isn't different. It steals self-worth."
A washing machine branded “Speed Queen”
A screenshot of a dating app ad that reads “Madison is actually full of attractive mature women”
a screenshot of exaltedfuneral.com showing the page to purchase Blackmore
A wizard character saying to your party: “Well, the princess was captured. And of course this is all your fault, too!”
A comic panel from DC Pride 2023 where Inframan says: “COMPLEX ONCE, SO SHALL I BE AGAIN!”
A giant crane strutting through a parking lot
A Washington Post headline that reads: "Opinion: Facebook's Twitter alternative isn't different. It steals self-worth."
The Simpsons character Lionel Hutz correcting an ad to say “Works on contingency? No, money down!”
A display of action figures (mostly Transformers but some Masters of the Universe).
Final Fantasy II logo
A comic panel from The He-Man effect depicting a suburban American house that looks like the Simpsons home with the caption “Because most families only had one TV, the content needed to cater to the whole family. This was called broadcasting.”
A picture of the Transformers toy Tonkanator in its box
A picture of the cover of Box Brown’s graphic novel The He-Man Effect