What Lex is up to right now.
A snapshot of the shows, games, and shenanigans currently eating my brain — so when someone asks “what are you working on these days?” I have somewhere to point.
Here’s what’s happening with me now:
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New game
Strategery is back — and now it’s mine.
In 2009 I reviewed a little iPhone game called Strategery for Macworld and wrote that there was no game I played on my iPhone more. Macworld named it the year’s Best Strategy Game. Seventeen years later, I own it, and I just shipped a brand new version, built from the ground up with the original creators on board.
It’s a Risk-ish game of world domination, one blob at a time: every blob on the map holds pegs, you point yours at a neighbor’s and roll, and the last color standing wins. Play solo against the computer, online against friends (with push notifications when it’s your move), or pass-and-play on one device. There’s a new Chaos mode, too, where capturing a starred blob spins a wheel and your conquest has consequences.
(It’s $5 for iPhone and iPad, and a free update for anyone who bought it back in the day.)
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On stage
I’m starring as Lloyd in Noises Off.
I’m playing Lloyd Dallas — the increasingly exasperated director trying to hold a doomed touring production together — in Spring Lake Theatre’s production of Noises Off, Michael Frayn’s legendary backstage farce. Missed cues, slamming doors, flying sardines, and a company slowly coming apart at the seams. It’s the funniest play ever written, and I get to yell at everyone in it.
The show runs October 9 through 24 at Spring Lake Theatre in Spring Lake, NJ, with Friday and Saturday evening performances plus Saturday and Sunday matinees.
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New site
I’m writing about tech again, at Lex on Tech.
I spent years writing about Apple for Macworld and TidBITS, and I’ve missed it. So I built somewhere to do it again: Lex on Tech — tech, mostly Apple, from me. Reviews of the indie apps I actually use, opinions about the software we all live in, and the occasional argument about what a company is really up to.
New pieces are going up regularly, and there’s an RSS feed if that’s how you like to read. Come tell me I’m wrong about something.
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On stage
Oh Sh*t, Sherlock! is back — and so am I.
I’m once again donning the deerstalker for Oh Sh*t, Sherlock!, the hit comedy where Sherlock has never seen the script. Each Sherlock performs in two different mysteries in one night, completely cold — and this run features brand-new mysteries. The show runs September 18 through October 4 in Asbury Park, NJ, and it’s BYOB.
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Oct 4 SundayI’m Sherlock for the 3 PM & 5 PM shows Asbury Park, New Jersey
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On stage
I’m hosting The All-New Game Show.
In September I’m stepping behind the podium to host The All-New Game Show — a live, improvised riff on classic game show TV. Two audience contestants get paired with two seasoned improvisers for a run of old-school games: Wordpass (you may know its ancestor as Password), Triangle-25 (a certain $25,000 Pyramid, legally distinct), and Matchy Matchy (Match Game, but sillier).
Come play, or come watch other people flail gloriously. Tickets are $15.
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Sep 26 SaturdayHosting The All-New Game Show, 5 PM Shore Thing Theater, 66 S Main St, Ocean Grove, NJ
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New at Lex.Games
Free full-size crosswords, every Sunday.
Lex.Games now serves up a free full-size crossword every Sunday — the big 15×15 kind, not the Mini — so your Sunday morning has one more excuse to linger over coffee. The weekday crosswords are still a Lex.Games Pro perk, but Sundays are on the house for anyone with a free account.
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New page
So many apps, there’s now an Apps page.
I have so many apps to keep track of now that I gave them a home of their own: a standalone Apps page. If you want the full lineup in one place, that’s where to look.