(For Kim, wherever this may find her)

me: Hey, when you've got a minute, we need to pick your new power for Monday's game.
swartho: Ooh! Can I have Power of Attorney?
me: [sigh] No. [Pause] Ooh! You can have the moon power, though.
swartho: What's that?
me: Well, you can walk up to monsters and say, 'In the name of the moon, I shall punish you!'
swartho: [sigh] Just ( Read more... )

Apparently, much like me, my LJ was blissfully unaware that it was obsolete and degraded. I have "fixed" the LJ. Me? Not so much ( Read more... )

I awoke this morning, feeling like the wooded area near the house where I spent my childhood.

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My neck had a large crick in it and my mouth was dry and kinda foul smelling.

So can someone else confirm that I'm not crazy? At least about this? I'm hoping that someone else with a copy of Witch Hunter Robin and an embarrassingly broad knowledge of 80's music can confirm that in Ep 14 ("Loaded Guns"), the stripped-down melody that plays during the firefight is Bryan Adams' power ballad, "Heaven"... We're watching with ( Read more... )

Yeah. Some of you have seen this before, but I'm digging it up for someone in particular. Of course, if I could just wake up the damn poet, he could write something more pertinent, and fresh, instead of me having to recycle his old crap.

Eenyhoo, hang in there! Plenty of good thoughts headed your way...

( environmentally friendly dreck this way--> )

Well, it's not a rumor anymore -- my sleep schedule is officially screwed. ...and after I thought it was completely fixxored, since I went to bed before 12:30AM every night this past week, up until last night and tonight.

( cut to protect delicate sensitivities, friends pages, and browsing from work... )

Yeah, it's been awful quiet 'round here. The writer's been sleeping for a little while, and this is always the first thing to die a horrible, horrible death when he does. I'll post something of substance soon, as there is some stuff happening on which I'd like to comment, but I still don't quite have the energy. Instead, I'm gonna take the easy ( Read more... )

Gibson Les Paul wireless guitar controller (XBOX 360)When Guitar Hero II released for the Microsoft XBOX 360 earlier this year, console owners expressed disappointment that they could play only wired guitar controllers. Microsoft finally relented and allowed Activision to release Guitar Hero III with a controller that uses the 360's built-in ( Read more... )

I've been trying to write some reviews to jump-start my writing. If I can manage not to clog up the keyboard with too much blood, I'll try to get through my first review. Why are my fingers bleeding?

Guitar Hero III (XBOX 360)Launching at special release parties and midnight sales all over the country Sunday, October 28, the latest game in the ( Read more... )

I normally go through leisure activity "cycles" -- where I am more interested in one activity over the others (tv/movies, reading, and video games, usually... all efforts to include "writing" have failed, thus far ( Read more... )