Psychonauts is a game that has been highly recommended to me through various channels, but I never got around to getting it. It's been described as a game where you attend psychic summer camp, training to become a psychic soldier by entering the minds of the staff and students and running around inside them. Sounded interesting, but I still couldn' ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago, on a Sunday afternoon, there was a knock on the door.

"Come in," I called, knowing Rodney was coming to visit. Simultaneously, I scrambled for the remote so that he wouldn't see I was watching the painfully retarded comedy Pootie TangHe poked his head around the divider between my entryway and my living room. "So everyone says ( Read more... )

There is a joke structure that I have been trying to understand for years ( Read more... )

My dad gave me a copy of Inglorious Basterds on Blu-Ray for Christmas.

"Dang," I said, "I don't have a Blu-Ray player."

"What?!" he exclaimed, and hit me with a disapproving sideways glare. "Son, we are about to enter a new decade. This is not the stone age. Are you aware that in seven days, the plain old DVD will have been invented fifteen years ( Read more... )

I bought Scribblenauts and it was a terrible mistake; I'm never going to be able to do anything else ever again ( Read more... )

A few days ago I was playing a game online with a friend from Ontario. We were both having some connection problems. I was just sitting there doing my own thing when suddenly he said the following ( Read more... )

A couple weeks ago, I realized I hadn't shaved in a couple weeks. I applied shaving cream and suddenly said, I wonder what I would look like with a beard, like an actual, whole-face beard. Figuring it was a good time to experiment, I shaved my head, and cleaned up my cheeks and neckline a little and then looked in the mirror ( Read more... )

The weekend before last, I went to visit my aunt Rita. I had a great time, and got to see everyone except my cousin Craig, who had a wedding to go to, and my cousin Kyle, who had gotten ill while camping ( Read more... )

"So," Colin asked, "Are you just fucked, then, or what ( Read more... )

I could use a drink.