July 2007

Look! Fox Mulder is running! That's novel! -- Posted by BalconyDive on Friday, July 27 2007

According to Destructiod, Fire Pro Wrestling Returns is going to get a US release. Fire Pro Returns was bleeding awesome. My PS2 is near dead, I may buy a new (used) one just for this. I'm leaving in about an hour for a movie I've been waiting, I'd put it about 15 years for. People are throwing the number 18 and 19 around, but the idea of expecting a movie in the first season is preposterous. From everything I've seen, it'll be worth it. I just got off the phone with a guy, and all signs point to a (damn filthy) home "telecommuting", not marketing, job. The fact that this constitutes a good day for me is...a little sad.

-- Posted by OtterVomit on Monday, July 16 2007

Not much going on with me. No, that's a lie. There actually is STUFF & JUNK & THINGS going on. First off, I'm still editing video and hopefully project 1 will be completed by tomorrow, and then work will start on projects 2 - Googleplex. Fun times sitting in front of a computer watching 12 hours of hypnosis sessions - and by fun I mean I'm now addicted to amphetamines to keep awake! As part of the ongoing celebration of the 25th anniversary of the horrible failure that was the 1982 World's Fair, Knoxville has renovated and re-opened the SunSphere to the public. Most of you sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, and dickheads only know the SunSphere from the Simpsons episode where Bart, Nelson, Milhouse and Martin take an ill-fated trip to Knoxville in search of the World's Fair, and Nelson knocks the SunSphere over by throwing a rock at it. Well, there are no wigs in the SunShpere, only moldy carpet and water damaged ceilings - and they're working on those. More on the SunSphere in a moment.. Now for the real news. Most people reading this drivel know who Jae is. Those who don't, well, she's a friend I've known online for about 8 years now I guess. Anyway, Jae came into town on her vacation which she decided (for some reason) to take to Tennessee. So as to entertain her, I exploited her fear of heights and said "HEY LET'S GO INTO THIS SUPER TALL OLD RICKETY THING THAT GOT KNOCKED OVER BY A ROCK ON TV!!" So here are the pics which I shamelessly stole from her MySpace since I'm too much of a pauper to own a camera: Simpsons experts may remember Milhouse mentioning that there was a giant Rubik's Cube at the world's fair. This was correct. For most of my life, this cube sat under a bridge falling into a horrible state of disrepair (I considered stealing it from time to time). However, as the World's Fair has over time become something the city is less and less ashamed of, the city saw fit to restore the cube:

No rims, no checks, no chicks, no switches to flip -- Posted by BalconyDive on Saturday, July 7 2007

I don't understand something. It's possible I'm just a tad oversensitive, I don't think I am, but really someone else has to make that call. I'm sitting here, leafing through the geek that I got in the mail...Thursday? and I come across a half page-ish article written by some woman entitled "Pecs vs. specs" wherein she recaps/bemoans ending a relationship with some guy. Apparently she ended the relation ship, despite the guy being all brilliant and stuff and liking Buffy the Vampire Slayer (like, oh my god! fate?!) because he a) collected Transformers figures and II) enjoyed creating stop motion videos of them. Not movies, just videos of them transforming. Whatever, don't care about her, him, their relationship, or why it ended. (He may possibly be a jackass, she may possibly be a bitch.) Later in the piece she talks about how he came back in to her life when he contacted her after he went on Jeopardy! (three times, so I assume he won some nice coin) and invited people over to view his episodes. This is where my confusion and need of clarification comes in. In describing her would be Jeopardy! champions competition she went out of her way to note that he was dressed "in a sharp suit which made him look exceptionally handsome (especially in contrast to his middle-age, Midwestern, competitors)" -- emphasis mine. What the hell is that? Now, I'm aware anyone not born in California or New York is but worthless "flyover" (until they move to one of these glorious, glorious places that make them worthy of being thought about as more than such) but since when did everyone in the places that the golden dare not set foot upon become hideous beasts who shouldn't even be gazed upon? I mean, I know that I, personally, could be confused with kin to a troll, but I'm not even representative of my family, let alone the entirety of the Midwest. The writers name is Nicole Kristal, plugging that into Google (it is geek magazine after all) brings up a bunch of seemingly random and unconnected people; bisexuals, musicians, academic prostitutes, models, but no one to get more information on this person whom I perceive to have slighted me. Speaking of geek monthly, I think the jury is still out on this magazine. Despite being called a monthly (says so in the title and the masthead) it seems to come out every other month. The issue I'm holding now (the 1982 issue, Seth Rogan on the cover) says issue 5/6 on it, but I think that's just something being worked out as it does work on becoming a true monthly. I think I, personally, am just having crappy delivery issues too because they're My Space was touting this issue as hitting the stands soon last month (6-14) and I just got it this week. I'd be able to deal with that issue if it didn't get confounded with the fact that it makes the magazine seem to suffer from...let's call it lag. I pick up this issue, open the back page (I read magazine backwards, always have. I also prefer soda warm. We can take this shit out side if you really want to.) and the first things I see are a picture of a car with a balloon coming from it's exhaust to show how much it can pollute in a day, which I've seen months and months ago all over the intertubes and an announcement that Star Wars fans could have voted for stamps. Once upon a time. I don't know if that information was available in the last (Star Wars) issue because I can't find mine, but if it wasn't they really shouldn't bother mentioning it now. They have reviews for games and DVD released in May. The lag is just...killer. The articles, however, are interesting and worth reading. If they could figure out a way to get ahead of the lag, or just cut out their reviews altogether (do them on the sorely in need of content website). They could devote those pages to something retro on purpose, pr some kind of geek advice column, a collection of "look out for" things where they try to see what's on the horizon and get ahead of it. The magazine could actually be awesome then.

I take drugs! -- Posted by BalconyDive on Saturday, July 7 2007

This is the litany of pills I take a day. It's not fun. In fact, the only thing close to fun are the little yellow bastards. Yes...I am bored. How'd you guess?