Board game recommendation

Oh man. I went to a friend's birthday party last night and we played Bloc by Bloc. I've been hearing about it for ages (full disclosure; it was created by a friend-of-an-acquaintance) but never actually played it. I can in no way justify it for my games course, but I think I maybe need it for me.

The object of the game is to create an insurrection in a city. You have a faction and you work cooperatively (or semi-cooperatively, if you give everyone a sectarian agenda that may run counter to every factions) against the cops to loot stores, build barricades, fight cops, and create guerrilla gardens and assembly halls. It's a very complicated, involved set-up, but the game play is completely hilarious and wonderful. And it's beautifully designed; when someone I know designs a game, I tend to assume it's going to be well-written but look kind of crap, but this had quality art. It's a bit like Pandemic, mechanically, but naturally the theme is much more up my alley.

Anyone else played it? Anyone else want to play it?

The best thing to happen in the art world

You never hear about art feuds anymore, which is unfortunate, but luckily Anish Kapoor and Stuart Semple are here to correct that deficiency. You may recall Anish Kapoor as the guy who secured the sole rights to the "blackest black" pigment—the one all the goths hoped would be used to make their clothes from now on—and wouldn't let anyone else use it.

In retaliation, Semple created the "pinkest pink," and made available on his website for purchase by anyone who was not Kapoor.

But OH NOES! Kapoor got it anyway and posted this glorious picture to Instagram.

Semple was outraged, and expressed his concern as follows:

We are all extremely disappointed to see that Anish Kapoor has illegally acquired the world’s pinkest pink. He’s walked into this paint war with a gesture that cannot be misconstrued. He’s given the art community a bright pink middle finger. He is still very much at large. Not only has he refused to share the black, he’s now stolen our pink. Rest assured, we will get to the bottom of who has purchased this on Anish Kapoor’s behalf and broken their contractual agreement with culturehustle.com, and we will instruct our lawyers to take appropriate action against such breaches. We are pleased to note that he has not managed to get his hands on the World’s Glitteriest Glitter—yet—and we urge purchasers not to share the product with Kapoor or his associates.

Reportedly, he then got his hands on the black (or, well, got the black on his hands.)

There is rumoured to be fanfic written about this but I didn't find it when I totally didn't go looking for it.

Anyway this is clearly the greatest feud in art history since Van Gogh versus Gauguin, and I believe both of these gentlemen deserve our praise for lightening up the otherwise dismal end to this year.