Commercial Break: Can You Walk Like This?

After a day of writing and hanging with some friends, I'm realizing that we are all working too hard. I mean, I love working, sometimes really hard. Builds character. But do you ever think to yourself, "Damn, I need to just straight space out for a bit?"

Above is a clip that I can't really make heads nor tails of [pun scanned...it's real!]. I would assume that it is in some way related to bugs [or glitches depending on your school of thought] found in modern programming. 

So cheers to you hard working people out there. The glitch in your life will have a patch, I just don't know how soon it'll come.

Things I Did While In San Diego...

Visit La Holla beach, but remember to mispronounce "La Hoya" to "La Holla."Before we get into the details of one of the greatest trips of my life, I think I should send a tremendous thank you and shout out to Jesse Cunningham and Lea Stretch. Without them this trip wouldn't have been as great as it turned out. There are a lot of things that happened on the trip that clearly won't fit in any blog post, but hopefully I can get some of the finer points right.

Below are some photos and bulletpoints of the wild ride that was San Diego...

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Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes -- James Franco Raises A Monkey

"Do it for Dunstin!"

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Taxidermy Is One Hell Of A Drug

What photo were you looking at when you decided you wanted to make the John Malkovich lion?

So here's the deal, I'm writing up a review of things that have happened to me in the past week. This encompasses my experience with a certain ape-oriented film as well as my San Diego trip. No, I'm not trying to combine the two into one confusing, yet intriguing article. I've actually taken ill in quite a way.

It also doesn't help my recovery, that my body has been enduring quite the heatwave in Columbus. A.K.A. The Humid City With All The Fat Humids. I'm begging you to stay with me here. The next couple articles [this included] will be drug induced [Theraflu to the rescue!]. 

This being said, I rarely "laugh-cry" and pee my pants while viewing the internet. And it's an even rarer occurrance that I admit to said act via said medium. But, what you see above and the images you'll see below are a new kind of funny that my body involuntarily seizes up in laughter/horror.

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Graphic Update: Black Dynamite -- The Comic

The things I'm allowed to read at work while on my lunch break...

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Fan Video -- Team Fortress 2: Sentry Sabotage

I'm posting a fan video for a video game that came out close to five years ago. I'm that guy. 

Usually a good rule to follow is that when someone says, "Hey I made a video about this video game I like." Chances are you need to break all ties with this person and post the unintentionally hilarious video on several social network sites. That is, if it's terrible and you're a terrible person who takes pleasure in something like that. I know I don't...

In the many years Valve's Team Fortress 2 has been availible on console and PC, plenty of fan videos, 'drawrings', maybe even macrame patterns have been dedicated to the game. Turns out these nerds who play video games may also harbor some form of a highly skilled, artistic background.

Enjoy this video, it comes from a community that cares.

P.S. How true-to-life was that sniper offing a cloaked spy? Very.

Commercial Break: Driving In Asia or Asian Drivers?

I think it's a bit passe to do jokes on matters like, "this culture walks like this, and this culture talks like this." But then a friend sent me this clip via e-mail earlier this week. Blood immediately sprung from the inner recesses of my mouth. I was biting my tongue so hard.

I'd like to think that someone with a camera in their car could put together a seven minute clip of vehicular manslaughter just about anywhere on this earth. So why is it so funny when it's Asia? And from what I can tell by the language, China in particular. 

These guys and gals are just trying to get to work, or to the bar, just like you and me. Though it may seem like the brake pedal was installed in their cars for lols, I'd like to point out that usually, the car with the camera in it, is usually not [grossly] disobeying any traffic laws.

That being said, this s**ts funny. And funny goes a long way with me.

FYI: If you any of you out there have footage of anyone, of any particular ethnic background, temporarily hurting themselves in a vehicle of any kind please feel free to send that to this site's e-mail [it's on the sidebar, can't miss it]. Please no gore or mamed limbs being lost. It will only get posted if I find it funny.

Harry Potter Isn't Dead, Unfortunately

This is it. It all ends here. Well, you know, not really.

It’s rare I put a spoiler in the headline of my reviews. Actually, I’m sure I’ve never done it before. This is important for the small bits of hate mail and tweets I get. Granted, I’m still going to get them, but I want you to know that Harry Potter is alive and well. I’ll also say that I’m clearly not a Harry Potter fan, or aficionado. I’ve seen, including this film, the first film and the previous two. And by previous two I’m not including Deathly Hallows Part 1. I honestly didn’t know it came out. Nor did I care.

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Transformers: Dark Of The Moon -- I Drank Before Watching

It should come as no secret, I've always kinda hated the Transformers movies, but with Leonard Nemoy playing Sentinel Prime, well that's sure to win me and fellow 'thinking' movie goers over.
This weekend I snuck a bottle of red wine into a movie theater. Maybe this will function as a place marker for when I showed the initial signs of alcohol abuse? Maybe this will become the new standard for viewing any future summer blockbusters?

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Things That Are Cool: Comix, Free Games, Jane McGonigal, Internet Findings...

One of the many interesting panels I found over at Comix Cube

These past couple weeks and [I'm guessing] future weeks will be dedicated to me figuring out some things in my little life. One of which is [hopefully] getting my TV serviced so I can get back to reviewing this ever-growing hill of vidja games. 

I'm also finding time to work on other artistic endeavors that you may [or may not] see on the internet. 

Since my facebook sabbatical, my Twitter and e-mail inbox have been getting stuffed. Some of it is actually not totally disgusting. I'd even go as far in saying that it may have brightened my week.

Below is a dump of all the tabs I currently have open in my browser

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