So the new Guillermo del Toro picture is about Stringer Bell and Jax Teller in giant robots with rocket punches whooping ass on Gamera. Not even fuckin kidding.

This is what art is for and can do.

So I haven't used this in forever, because I rarely have anything worth saying anymore that doesn't fit into 140 characters. But! as it happens Dana and I took an interesting trip yesterday and there's more to say about that ( Read more... )

(12:27:35 PM) DktrSmith: Oh, boy. This game just introduced the Rei Ayanami clone.
(12:27:40 PM) DktrSmith: Will we never be free of that shit?
(12:27:44 PM) Jeff Katin: No. Never.

(7:47:04 PM) DktrSmith: I remember I was talking to my boy Kevin Gifford once ( Read more... )

(2:56:54 PM) Jeff Katin: So the fansubber kids have managed to come up with all new codecs again that break software normal people use. It's a good thing cartoons are shit now ( Read more... )

(2:32:00 PM) Jeff Katin: I'm going to tear your head off, because I don't like your head.
(2:32:11 PM) Jeff Katin: I would love to be able to say that on the phone.
(2:32:24 PM) DktrSmith: Do you ever get calls from England? They might get the joke.
(2:32:31 PM) Jeff Katin: Alas, no.

At some point towards the end of my past career writing about games, I tried to add up roughly how many articles I'd written over the years. It was a lot. For Gamers.com and 1UP alone I wrote...well, let's see...maybe an average of eight news stories a day for two years, forty a week, about two thousand a year, plus reviews and features and other ( Read more... )

DFS: It ain't so bad. Compared to a lot of people I know I'm lucky in my folks. And the whole deal with my nephew will probably involve a ton of free catered Indian food ( Read more... )

Today we went to Richmond, because Richmond is the nearest place to get the extra-super-great raw food for Dana's cats. In addition to loading up a trunk full of kitty food, though, we wandered around the area and saw a few things ( Read more... )

Crazy warm sunny day today. Kevin came over and we went out to hike some of the trails along the Eno River out around north Durham, which is a gorgeous spot to go strolling around. Shady enough to cut the temperature a bit and keep the sun off your skin ( Read more... )