The Banana Peel Project

Looking back over my posts on storytelling in Bungie’s upcoming Halo 3, I noticed that I had made an error in my interpretation of the press release. Apparently, Halo 3 will include a campaign mode that will enable single players to slaughter hordes of aliens, and will therefore not be strictly multiplayer. […]

Generally, I don’t think of culture as some sort of ethereal zeitgeist.  Culture, in the parlance of many hip academics, is located in material things.  Whether one calls those things cultural objects, media, technologies, or memes is irrelevant; what is important is that we recognize that culture is and always has been defined by the […]

I started The Banana Peel Project for a variety of reasons. I wanted a forum whose format and public visibility would motivate me to develop my writing, to articulate nebulous new ideas, and to share with my friends and colleagues some of the things that I think are so cool. Clearly, I think […]