I am a sick man. I am a diseased man. While I wish I was the Man from Dostoyevsky’s Underground, I’m just a nerd. Afflicted with phlegm and nausea and a quivering of the bowels. So in all honesty, my friends, I’m pounding out this column quicker than Billy Batson can shazam the fuck outta Dodge. Gray and green and brown matter is flying all over my keyboard. I need the dull glow of Theraflu and the prone position.

Press Start!. Column that spouts off on top five things that caught my attention in gaming this week.

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Dock Ellis threw a no-hitter for the Pittsburgh Pirates on June 12, 1970. He later admitted that he had done so while on acid. Deadspin editor A.J. Daulerio tried to recreate the heroic and hallucinatory feat. Dropping some acid, he fired up the Xbox and gave it the old psychadelic trry.

Hit the jump to watch a video of his valiant efforts.

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