She cooks or cleans or weeps or Pinterests while he is out and about, slaying and defending and generally being courageous. While this quintessential hero is running about, his wife/mother/sister/girlfriend/daughter/all of the above stays home, very much not on a hero’s journey. There, he conquers or fights some person or army or thing and, in doing so, saves us all. Rapt, I parked my car and plugged in my headphones so I could finish the podcast while I was inside the store.Īs I finally threw the Nom-Noms into my shopping cart, Gilbert was talking about the archetypal “hero’s journey” and how throughout the history of literature, the hero’s journey has been represented as, specifically, a man’s journey to a faraway place. The second subset - and this is the one that really caught my attention as I began my 15th circle around the supermarket parking lot, waiting for someone to leave so that I could grab a spot - was that group of women who had similarly been inspired to go on a spiritual globe-trotting quest by the book but were unable to do so for one of many reasons: the financial impossibility, a job that couldn’t be left, a family or kids or sick parents under their care, or a combination of all of these things. The first were those who, inspired by her book, bought plane tickets and attempted, in some fashion, to trace Gilbert’s steps. Gilbert was telling Oprah about how in the aftermath of Eat Pray Love’s publication, she was often approached, at book signings or talks, by two subsets of women. They mostly feel the same, but around the edges, of course, they are different. My days look and taste a lot like nothing, and yet they are there. Part time at home part time, occasionally, in an office part time, in an existential sense, as a mother and the smallest part of the time, feeling like myself. The day stretching out before me as I drove the three minutes from my house to the supermarket was itself a bit like a Nom-Nom it would be the same as all the other days I’ve been living since my son was born, since we moved to Los Angeles, and since I’ve been working part time. (I’m sure they could be baked to be perfectly smooth, but I think they’re going for some kind of wabi-sabi “hand-hewn” aesthetic, which I appreciate in theory, but it also feels like an unnecessary effort given the audience?) Every cookie is reliably about five inches long and shaped like a mini-surfboard with very minor irregularities around the edge. The rest is a mysterious blend of, I think, sweet-potato juice and Styrofoam. Nom-Noms are these magical little biscuits that are probably about 99 percent air. Gilbert is the author of Eat, Pray, Love, the 2006 best seller about her soul-awakening travels to India, Italy, and Bali it’s a book I love and have read an embarrassing number of times. While in the car, I’m listening to the writer Elizabeth Gilbert on Oprah’s Super Soul podcast. My 2-and-a-half-year-old son, Asher, loves Nom-Noms, and we were about to run out, so this trip needs to happen before the shit hits the fan. Click that link and you're already playing.Ĭosmic Adventure Squad's Deepest Sword is the next big thing in gaming-and it only gets bigger.I’m driving the three-minute scoot to the supermarket to pick up a few boxes of very safe, instantly dissolving toddler cookies called something like Nom-Noms, which is really what all cookies should be called (and, while we’re at it, all food). And you can just play it in a browser right now, nothing crazy. I had even more fun convincing a couple guys in the Gaming Nexus Slack channel to try it. Just watch your little knight sweat, as the increasingly long swords actually make it harder to reach the dragon in the first place. You pole vault your way across a short and slightly shifting platformer, climb up the dragon's back, hear how your sword isn't long enough, get turned into a shish kebab, then try again-each time with a slightly longer sword from your weapon smithy. And the sweetie of a fire-breathing dragon will shame your sword's phallic inadequacies-as you try to stab the dragon's heart with your blade. Straight out of this year's Ludum Dare game jam competition, Deepest Sword is a cute little thing. Your increasingly lengthy sword is part Bennet Foddy's Getting Over It.
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