3 years since the last post?

Wow... I have totally let this blog go south.

I completely forgot I had this site until I was goofing around online today. I made this blog at a time when I thought it might be fun to be a blogger. You know, share your opinions to the world and expect them to praise your creativity. Unfortunately I had 2 things going against me.

1. I'm not as clever as I thought. Well I am... but I can't do it on a daily basis.

2. In order to have readers I would have to try to promote my blog. I hate doing that. I hate having people read my work, no matter how great or trivial it might be.

On that note, I will be trying to post every so often. Hopefully someone will wander in and actually read my stuff... here's hoping.

Shut up FDR!!! or... Are we going too far?

I know I just posted but I saw this picture and I just had to share it.

Do you remember your Social Studies teacher talking about FDR and his now famous inagural speech? He stood in front of everyone and proudly told his fellow americans "There is nothing to fear but fear itself." At the time they were words that all Americans could stand by. Now there seems to be a cross section of Americans who might just might want to stand up and say, "Shut Up FDR!!!"

Yes folks there are people who actually fear fear itself. Nope... that was not a typo. Phobophobia it turns out is Fear of fear itself.

Not to sound like Tom "I was once dyslexic but Scientology cured me and I was able to fly a plane, which is ironic because I was Maveric in that movie Top Gun" Cruise but, are we putting too many labels when we put fear of fear on a list of mental diseases?

I am not dead!

Hey there, hi there, ho there. It's been awhile. Things got busy with me getting married but now I am back. Still not sure what my plan is but I think I have enough thoughts and opinions to last awhile... I hope.

So some of you might be wondering why Mr. Pac is my chosen picture for this post... well... the way I see it if Tu over here can come up with new albums every so often, I should be able to post every so often right?

Big ups to the newest reader, Nini. That makes my readership total come up to a whopping.... 4!!! Woo!!! More later...

What's Wrong With This Picture? Part 2

Holiday shopping sucks. There is so much demand, and so little supply. I have, and always will, hate economics. Whether it's a tickle me Elmo, a Furby, or Cabbage Patch Kids; there has always been the one "It" thing that people want to buy that year. And "want it" they do. I have never been part of this phenomenon... I have never wanted anything around the holidays that I was willing to spend all my time searching for it. I always saw myslef as being above all that... how little did I know.

On Dec 3, I was having lunch with a coworker we will call Tim. He mentioned to me that the Toys R' Us in Burbank was going to have Wii systems available the next morning. "Great!" I thought. I've wanted a Wii ever since they announced the system and this was my best opportunity to get one. We planned to meet at 12 midnight to try to be the first ones there. Spend the night in line so that we can get our hands on a new system. The plan was fool proof.


I get there at 11:45 pm. Lo and behold!!! There were people already in line... around 24 of them to be exact. Tim was told that there were only 24 systems abailable, and we were hoping that not everyone in line was going to buy one. So we sat down in our chairs for the wait.

to be continued...

What's wrong with this picture? Part 1.

Has the rapture cometh? Has the mayan calendar ended? Has hell frozen over? To quote my own title, "What's wrong with this picture?"




**Warning**

***Old person talking about the good old days follow this message***

This picture is from an article in the Columbia Tribune that talks about the Nintendo Wii. For those who still don't know what it is, the Wii is the newest videogame system that the gaming gods have bestowed upon us. And this time around they have decided that instead of new prettier graphics, they would try to bring back the fun back into gaming. Not only that, they are now targeting a whole new audience. That's right, gone are the images of gamers being young, virgin, pimply faced, boys. Now when we think of gamers, we can include everyone. Moms, dads, grandparents... basically people who have never picked up a controler. Yup... they are now joining the party. And the scary thing? They are actually good.

A couple of months ago, there were 10 types of people. A gamer, and a non-gamer. (If you are laughing at this moment you have achieved the level of math geek!) If you sat down with a gamer... no matter what game it is, it was never a question of win or lose. It was, "how much am I going to lose by?" Although the winner is clearly a geek in his own right... the man who lost is a self-proclaimed gamer. A gamer losing to a noob? A leet getting pwned? (Check wikipedia for the reference you artards.) Yes folks, this is the new frontier.

As an old school gamer I should be in the sidelines complaining that the exclusivity of our little club has ruined by nintendo. I should boycott this evil platform.... but I didn't.

to be conitnued...

To Wii or not to Wii... it's a Wii-ly hard question!!!

I'm not sure I mentioned it before... but I have been a Video Game Geek since I can remember. From Olympic games on my old Floppy-Disk-Run computer, to my intellivision days with asteroids, and now with my Nintendo DS... I have always tried to be in the loop when it comes to gaming. Now that I am older I am finding that I don't have enough time to dedicate to gaming that I previously had. Gone are the 24 hour sessions of Starcraft with my brother and Mr. VRML himself. Gone are the days where my borther and I would drive down to Moorpark at around 12 in the morning to play Counterstrike. Gone are the days when Moonie would bring me to Joel's house so I can but some copied games Joel would sell me for $10.

With this in mind, it is time once again for the Next-gen systems to try to claim our hearts and our wallets. The scary thing is that for the first time since Nintendo and Sega were at war with each other... I am not as excited as I once was. Sure... I will be getting my Wii (The jokes have been made and are too easy so I won't even try.) but that'sretty much it. If someone buys me an Xbox or a PS3... I'll play it... but unless it drops to less than a monthly car payment I am most likely not buying one. Shocking I know. Is this me getting old? Will I start telling stories of how "In my day we ony had an A button and a B button. God help us all... Oh well I guess it was inevitable. Hey... at least I can still have have in the World.... of Warcraft.

By the way... my brother asked me to link his site. Not like anyone sees this... but if you do, check out his Toe.

Just when you think there were no more heroes in the world!!!

Certain people in my life have slowly started to lose faith in humanity. To be honest with you there are times where I feel the same way; but I still try to keep the stff upper lip. In what may be better than listening to "Tommorow" from Annie, I just read this news paper article today. This may just very well explain everything in one small paragraph.

"Hanson said she fell off the couch and was unable to get her artificial leg from the table, “so my dog got my leg for me and went and got the phone and brought the phone to me so I could call 911.”

Who said all babbies are cute?

I'm starting to notice the theme of my blog. Things that either I find amusing or freaks the heck out of me. Well... here goes today's item.

In what may end up giving me nightmares for awhile... I give you the creepiest thing in the world for me right now. Please God, don't let this be an Ad strategy by McDonalds. As I write this, I can't help stare into it's (Yes it... Only way to describe it) eyes and dammit it's staring back at me. Someone kill this hellspawn!!!!