People say they like Sarah Palin because she's the kind of person they could have a beer with.

Naturally, liberals criticize this.

But part of the reason I like Barack Obama is because he's the kind of person that I could have a beer with.

I just saw Speed Racer, and I was looking at the IMDB credits for Rain, and noticed that the movie he was in before SR was a Korean film called I'm a Cyborg, but that's OK. The plot synopsis for the movie is:

A girl who thinks she is a combat cyborg checks into a mental hospital, where she encounters other psychotics. Eventually, she falls for a ( Read more... )

Suffering from another cold, I decided to try out something I spied at my local Mollie Stone's called GT's Organic Raw Kombucha. As my friend Jono would say, this stuff really gets up and slaps me in the face. I actually have to take a breather between sips, it's impossible to just gulp down. The taste was eerily familiar, though ( Read more... )

I've decided that I'm something of an early adopter of e-book readers ( Read more... )

I've decided to make a habit of spending Sunday mornings at my local Starbucks. While their default strong coffee isn't the best, and everything's really expensive, what I'm paying for at any of these "overpriced" coffee/tea shops (whether it's Starbucks, Cup o' Joe, Argo Tea, Intelligentsia, or someplace else) is really the atmosphere. A small ( Read more... )

A few months ago I was introduced to the music of Michelle Branch while I was watching some friends play Karaoke Revolution. Yesterday I found out that she's apparently teamed up with another singer/songwriter named Jessica Hall to form a band called The Wreckers. The thing I find particularly interesting here is that Branch has a pop/rock ( Read more... )

Yesterday I visited ALDI's for the first time with one of my roommates and found this, which I thought was kind of funny.

My second and final play rating of Facade is up.

Well, the first play rating of my first progressive review is up.

Meet the polar opposite of a dating sim.

I was recently accepted as a blogger on The Game Chair, a relatively new website for progressive reviews of games, along with editorials, industry news, and so forth.

Today my first story got published and I figured I'd let everyone here know about it. This story is my attempt at introducing readers to the weird world of experimental gaming by ( Read more... )