Radio Shack, now known as The Telegraph Wigwam

Just kidding, this doesn't have anything to do with, er, the Shack. It's about rebranding, baby! If Freelala were a business, I might have spent months if not years and tens of thousands of dollars in consultant-hours trying to divine the whims of the marketplace. But it's all me, so this morning I decided I didn't want to create a new space to publish the essay I was writing about video games and set about to spend a good 15 minutes changing the Phree Musique blog into !!!Phree as in Phreakshow!!! - dedicated to the consideration of all that is available through that little wire coming out the back of your computer. Or via a wireless network if you insist on destroying the purity of the metaphor. Games, video, various text-centric contenders for the title of "book", whatever the... hell... this thing is - it's all fair game now.*

We'll see you again real soon, right here at your neighborhood Victrola Yurt.

Meantime, here's something that might keep you interested. They're talking about the art history of video games now, which means they should start showing up in your generic intro-course-level textbooks probably in no more than 40 or 50 years.

*"thing" in this sentence used to link to some whacko interactive hoo hah but the domain just goes to a parking lot now. So I redirected it to symbolics.com which is supposedly the oldest extant website (I've no reason to doubt it, just not going to bother to verify it). On the theory that it's not likely to go defunct any time soon. Plus they say they will someday leverage their historic web asset for the "betterment of humanity," and I am all about the betterment.