Some of you may have noticed that I didn’t make any New Year’s Resolutions this year. Isn’t joining a gym (as cliché as that is) enough? No, it’s not. The real reason is that I’m not done with last year’s resolutions. And everyone knows you can’t start new resolutions until you’ve finished off the old ones. So, let’s take a minute and check the status of those 2008 resolutions:

1. Sell my comic book collection.
   Miraculously, I finally did that this week. I did save a few rare ones to sell on eBay if times get rough, but I actually sold the bulk of the collection (nearly 20,000 comics in 60-some longboxes) to a local collector who found me through my Craigslist ad (which was posted for all of a day). I even got something close to my asking price (in cash), and got rid of the warehouse shelving unit they were stored on at the same time. I thought I would be sad, but it feels like a great weight has been lifted from my shoulders. Although my shoulders hurt from helping to load the comics into his SUV, which involved multiple loads.
2. Eat less and exercise more.
   Didn’t do very good on that one, though I’m hoping the whole gym thing will help me with that this year.
3. Keep in better touch with friends.
   Not sure. I don’t think I did very well, though probably better than 2007. What’s bad is that I didn’t take any trips to visit friends in other parts of the country, and I definitely want to do that this year.
4. House repairs and remodels, including replacing some appliances and finishing the basement.
   Didn’t accomplish any of this, although now that the comics are out of the basement I can finally start on the basement finishing project. Well, after I get rid of a lot of other stuff down there. Oh, I did at least secure a Home Equity Line of Credit.
5. Rip all my CDs to the computer.
   Ha! I barely kept up with ripping new ones, much less making any headway on the back catalog.
6. Read more books and play more video games.
   I finished one book and got halfway through another, but that’s probably not better than the previous year. I did however play (and finish!) more video games.
7. Learn a new skill or technology at work.
   I took some training classes but I’m not sure I really “learned” anything. Although I’m on a new project now that should give me a chance to learn some new stuff.
8. Take a trip to a beach with the gf.
   Yep, we went to Cancún in April.
9. Avoid driving into things.
   Yeah! No accidents in 2008! And so far in 2009…

Well, I mentioned in that post last year that I would be happy to accomplish any two of the resolutions, and it looks like I did even better than that. So I’m happy!

For 2009: More of the same. Plus I want to appear on Hell’s Kitchen. And see more movies. And listen to more music. And write more blog entries, or at least more than I’m writing now. And upgrade Wordpress again and change the theme.

Latre.

Songs That Came Up On The iPod While Exercising Since Last Bog Update:

• “I Have Faith” (The Dream Syndicate)
• “Poking Myself In The Eye To Spite My Finger” (Anton Barbeau)
• “The Day Of The Triffids” (The Celebrity Pilots)
• “A Different Man” (The Church)
• “The Return of the Beserker” (The Futureheads)
• “Head Full of Steam” (The Go-Betweens)
• “Hairdresser on Fire” (Morrissey)
• “Tall” (Poi Dog Pondering)
• “Detonator” (Ash)
• “Strong Enough” (Bill Nelson)
• “Dirty Mouth” (Hot Hot Heat)
• “Between the Worlds” (Be Bop Deluxe)
• “Parade of Punk Rock T-Shirts” (Maritime)
• “Driving to Damascus” (Big Country)
• “Pastimes & Lifestyles” (Dogs Die in Hot Cars)
• “Yolanda Hayes” (Fountains of Wayne)
• “The Day The Rain Came Down” (Felt)
• “The One You Never Had” (Lloyd Cole)
• “Quality” (Barenaked Ladies)
• “Love’s Great Adventure” (Ultravox)
• “Distance Makes” (Maxïmo Park)
• “Dream The Moon” (Pere Ubu)
• “Limboland” (Sun & the Moon)
• “Just Too Bloody Stupid” (Close Lobsters)
• “I Come from Another Planet, Baby” (Julian Cope)
• “Lucy” (54-40)
• “From Georgia to Osaka” (Gene)
• “Conjure Me” (Afghan Whigs)
• “A Certain Bridge” (Last Man In Europe)
• “Return of the Roughnecks” (Chameleons UK)
• “Road To Ruin” (The Libertines)
• “Easy Does” (Let’s Active)

Pet Peeve of the Day: I may be totally off-base here, but it seems like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report have gotten shorter and Comedy Central is throwing more commercials in. Anyone have any statistics? Although I guess that’s not a bad thing, since it makes my morning routine go faster.

Ben Affleck’s Wife-Related Search Term Of The Day That Led To This Blog: “juno yuppie woman”.

Videogame(s) Played Since Last Blog Update: Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (DS). Still brutally hard!

I can’t believe it, but I actually laughed at a Garfield strip in the paper this morning:

This seems like a throwback to the original Garfield strips, which were actually, y’know, funny at times. Hard to believe, but true.

Or maybe my sense of humor is just getting… old. That must be it, since today’s Dennis The Menace also made me laugh. Or at least nod in agreement.

Speaking of getting old, Pioneer has announced it’s finally going to stop making LaserDisc players. What the…? Who knew they were still making them after the advent of DVD and then Blu-Ray? Maybe there’s a market for my old LD’s after all…

The mid-season premiere of Battlestar Galactica from last Friday night continues to haunt me. Wow. The Chicago Tribune’s Maureen Ryan has compiled a number of writer interviews and such about it in her column. (MAJOR SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THE EPISODE! Even the URL was a spoiler, so I had to tinyurl it.) I spent a long time this morning reading through that, and it was very illuminating. I was a little disappointed with the first part of this season (from way back whenever it was on – last summer?), but it looks like they’re going to be making up for it heading into the final stretch here.

Speaking of Spoilers (and BSG), commenter yellojkt has an interesting discussion about that in his Foma* blog entry yesterday. Yellojkt also recently had a fascinating in-depth series on what he considers to be the four big failures of the Bush administration, which starts here. Well worth reading. Yello brings the whup-ass!

Latre.

Pet Peeve of the Day: Guess I have to use my $10 Circuit City gift card really quickly! Like this guy, I won’t miss the chain. I’ve had too many bad experiences in their stores. But I don’t like losing $10!

Poignant Search Term Of The Day That Led To This Blog: “lardbutt oprah”.

Videogame(s) Played Since Last Blog Update: Still none! No time!

Firstly (via ADS), for every blog that posts the new Neko Case song, she’ll donate $5 to the Best Friends Animal Society. So, here’s my contribution. It helps that the song is really good. Even though I’m a big New Pornographers fan, I haven’t always been entirely keen on Neko’s solo output. But I’m not very much into country. I have to say I really like this one though. It’s uptempo, which always helps, and doesn’t sound all that country. So, here we go. Listen and enjoy.

Neko Case “People Got a Lotta Nerve” (Middle Cyclone, 2009)

Yummmm…. Neko.

Secondly, way back in this entry, I was complaining about how the synchronization of Microsoft Outlook to the iPhone Contacts was causing many people’s birthdays (including my own) to show up as one day off in the iPhone contact information (but curiously not in the iPhone birthday calendar events created from the contacts). Well, Apple is claiming it’s not their fault (see this Apple Discussion Board thread), but at least now they have a workaround. I tried this and it works. Whew! Now I no longer celebrate my birthday on the wrong day.

Thirdly, tonight’s episode of Smallville featured the first (live action*) appearance of DC Comics staples The Legion of Super-Heroes (referred to only as “The Legion”), those super-powered teens from the 31st century. I have to say that even though the usual TV-liberties were taken, it was incredibly faithful to the comics. (Or at least as faithful as anything in the weirdo Smallville universe can be.) This is not surprising, since the episode was written by DC Comics writer Geoff Johns. It was odd to see founding Legion members Saturn Girl, Cosmic Boy, and Lightning Lad in the “flesh” for the first time:

The actors did a pretty good job, although the Lightning Lad character was a bit too “gee whiz” youngish. It included a lot of bits of Legion lore to make us fanboys swoon, such as the Legion Flight Rings, the real names of the heroes (though only Lightning Lad was referred to by codename), costumes that at least call to mind costumes from the comics (which were always changing anyway), references to other planets, an actual Legion enemy (Persuader with his Atomic Axe, although they didn’t mention he was a member of the Fatal Five), mentions of other Legion members (including Brainiac 5, which tied into the main plot of the episode), lots of talk about the future destinies of the Smallville-ites, and even a quick reference to the Legion of Substitute Heroes, which only the really geeky among us would get. Mix it all in with Superman enemies Brainiac (including the first use of the three-circle Brainiac insignia from the comics and Superman animated series) and Doomsday, and you’ve got pretty much the most superheroic, comic-centric episode ever of the show. It even beat out the proto-Justice League episode from a few seasons ago. Kudos.

* – The Legion has previously appeared in animation, including it’s own two-season Saturday morning series a few years ago. I believe they also appeared in an episode of the Justice League Unlimited animated series and the old Superman animated series as well.

Latre.

Songs That Came Up On The iPod While Exercising:

• “The Snake” (Frank Black)
• “Colleen” (Ted Leo)
• “The Fundamental Blues” (Bill Nelson)
• “Henry” (Bif Naked)
• “Downed” (Fig Dish)
• “Down by the River” (China Drum)
• “Modern Woman” (Dogs Die in Hot Cars)
• “Nevermind” (Ecotour)
• “High Time” (Icicle Works)
• “Blatant Dis” (Poster Children)
• “1234″ (Helicopter Helicopter)
• “Fool for the Taking” (Gin Blossoms)
• “Look Like Shit” (Lauren Hoffman)
• “Imbusteros” (Calla)
• “The Same Mistakes” (The Records)
• “Twlight” (Elliott Smith)
• “From A Voice Plantation” (Guided By Voices)
• “The Hardest Thing” (Poi Dog Pondering)
• “Knight Rider” (Of Montreal)
• “Crash Into June” (Game Theory)
• “Woman With Reason” (Steve Kilbey)
• “Sing About Me” (Papas Fritas)
• “Mark of Excellence” (Mind Reels)
• “Listen” (The Wondermints)
• “Some Way Some How” (The Features)
• “Suburban Homeboy” (Sparks)
• “In The Wilderness” (Mercury Rev)
• “Crash Into June” (Game Theory)
• “Atlantic” (Keane)
• “ABC” (The Pipettes)
• “Petrol” (Ash)
• “American Music” (Violent Femmes)
• “Nose Over Tail” (Alkaline Trio)
• “The Heat In The Room” (Bill Nelson)
• “That Must Be The Way” (Uncle Green)
• “Anybody’s War” (Icehouse)
• “Chips Ahoy!” (The Hold Steady)
• “So It Goes” (Broken West)
• “Sob Story” (The Bolshoi)
• “Blue Flowers” (Pleasure Thieves)
• “Death or Glory” (The Clash)
• “Tony The Beat” (The Sounds)
• “Nowhere Now” (Econoline Crush)
• “I Want None Of This” (Radiohead)
• “Bust” (The Connells)
• “Sleepwalk” (Ultravox)
• “Alright” (Blake Babies)
• “Sleeping Through Heaven” (Game Theory)

Pet Peeve of the Day: Canker sores.

Poignant Search Term Of The Day That Led To This Blog: prius locked out engine running”.

Videogame(s) Played Since Last Blog Update: None!

The bizarre thing about this new series is that the tone of it is diametrically opposed to the tone of the current series of Batman live action movies. No “dark and gritty” here. B&B is the closest thing to the old campy 60s Batman series since the George Clooney Batman and Robin movie. The drawing style is sparse with clean lines. The animation sometimes has still action frames, like you see a lot in anime and in old cartoons from the 60s and 70s. Batman has short ears like in the 60s series. (As a general rule of thumb, you can tell what the tone of a Batman series is going to be by the length of his ears.) And Batman makes jokes. Lots of jokes. I guess that’s not surprising, since he’s voiced by Diedrich Bader. Sometimes he even smiles. This is a very light-hearted take on the Batman legend. All it’s missing is Robin, though I’m sure he’ll appear eventually.

The plots are pretty outlandish with villains concocting extremely elaborate plots that have very little basis in scientific reality, requiring an immense amount of suspension of disbelief on the part of the viewer. Of course, that’s da rigeur for the superhero world, although it does violate the recent trend from the last few decades to inject a slight bit of realism here and there. B&B throws convention to the wind. When a couple of mind-controlled pteradactyls can lift a cruise ship into the air, you know that any pretense of logic is not going to make an appearance. The show also seems to exist in its own separate little dimension of the DC universe, as the characters are not real consistent with their appearances in the comic books or other shows. For example, in the show, Plastic Man’s origin is tied into Batman. (Batman knocked Eel O’Brien into a vat of chemicals while Eel was in the middle of a robbery, turning him into Plas. Shades of the sometimes-origin of The Joker!) Aquaman is a genial, pompous idiot who reminded me more of The Tick than of any Aquaman from the comics. I half expected him to be voiced by Patrick Warburton. His half-brother Orm (Ocean Master) is now suddenly Atlantean, instead of being the human son of Aquaman’s landlubber father. I understand they need to cut corners so that the viewer can quickly come up to speed on what’s going on, but some of those alterations don’t really seem necessary.

It’s not surprising that B&B The Show is so out of continuity with everything else DC, since in the heyday of B&B The Comic, it also existed in its own little world. Those Batman team-ups of the 70s were mostly written by Bob Haney, an old-time writer at DC who was obviously given free reign to play in his own sandbox and create his own universe that didn’t have to tie in with anything happening in the rest of the company. He would do things like have Batman team up with heroes from alternate Earths as if those heroes existed on his Earth. (This was before DC collapsed their multiverse, and “Earth-2″ heroes had to actually travel to “Earth-1″ to team up with the heroes there.) For just one example of Bob Haney craziness, see here. Here’s more. Haney was also responsible for the Super-Sons in World’s Finest Comics, who so annoyed me that I quite collecting comics for a few years in the 70s because of them.

So, anyway, the show is Bad. Horribly Bad. Yet I can’t stop watching it. The pinnacle of animated Batman was the series from the 90s, and I doubt it will ever be surpassed. The series from this decade that recently ended it’s run on the WB was pretty bad, although it did get better near the end. It’s not that I’m so starved for Batman fare that I’ll watch anything that comes along, but I just have this need to see what comes next and how bad it will get. And as loathe as I am to admit it, there’s something actually fun about B&B. And we can all use a little fun, can’t we?

Latre.

Pet Peeve of the Day: Christmas cards with glitter. Why do I keep buying them? Actually, I didn’t buy any this year, but I had some left over from last year. That stuff gets on everything.

Poignant Search Term Of The Day That Led To This Blog: “phobias and damage to life”.

Videogame(s) Played Recently: Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (DS)

(FYI, Pushing Daisies is one of those shows that I keep watching even though I kind of hate it. I like how the look of it is different than anything else on TV, and I really like Anna Friel, yet it all still somehow manages to bug the hell out of me. So I’m probably not going to be too sorry to see it go.)

Anyway, don’t screw this up, ABC!

In other weird TV news, NBC is not only giving up on showing dramas during the third hour of prime time on weekday nights, they’ve also given up on giving Jay Leno the boot (these two things are connected). I can’t help thinking this is an extraordinarily bad idea. The networks are just going all out to hasten their own demise, aren’t they? It’s like they’ve given up trying to compete with cable.

Latre.

Songs That Came Up On The iPod While Walking To Lunch The Other Day:

• “Definite Maybe” (Ecotour)
• “Who Do You Think You Are?” (Duran Duran)
• “Bridges Burning” (Mission UK)
• “Where Are They Now?” (The Caulfields)
• “Object” (The Cure)
• “Nosebleed” (Maxïmo Park)
• “See-Saw” (Popinjays)

Pet Peeve of the Day: Damn winter weather! Damn laziness! I’ve been really remiss in my jogging lately and am turning into a total lardbutt.

Poignant Search Term Of The Day That Led To This Blog: “cockroach in crispix”.

Videogame(s) Played Recently: Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (DS)

The Flying McCoys, 12/2/2008:

The name of the TV show/movie is Sex and the City, not Sex in the City. Why can’t the non-fans ever get that right?? Sheesh.

And who’s the dude on the far left?

Latre.

Poignant Search Term Of The Day That Led To This Blog: “phobia that starts with q”.

Videogame(s) Played Yesterday: Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (DS)

Some interesting news lately out of Hollywood on the progress of two highly anticipated (by me anyway) possible future HBO shows. Since both of these projects were first announced, there’s been a regime change at HBO which made it look unlikely (according to some people) that either project would see the light of day.

The first one was the proposed adaption of the Garth Ennis/Steve Dillon 66-issue comic book series Preacher, one of the most blasphemous and graphically violent works ever committed to the four-color page. Also, one of the most exciting, funny, and enthralling. The HBO series was to be overseen by Mark Steven Johnson, director of the Daredevil and Ghost Rider movies. Seeing as how average those turned out, I wasn’t entirely looking forward to seeing what he would do with edgier fare. (Let’s not even mention what he did to A Prayer For Owen Meany.) But in interviews, he said he was going to stay faithful to the comics, even going so far as to adapt each individual issue into a separate episode of the TV series. That had a lot of potential. And as such, it was ultimately shot down by the HBO brass.

But recently comes word that it will be adapted instead into a feature film. A previous try at that in the 90s, to have been directed by Tank Girl director Rachel Talalay, er…. tanked. Thankfully. The director of this new version is going to be Sam Mendes, Oscar-winning director of American Beauty and also director of the upcoming Oscar-bait movie Revolutionary Road, which reunites Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. He has previously directed another comic book adaption, Road To Perdition, which was critically acclaimed but didn’t fare that well at the box office. So he does know his way around a graphic novel and he is a great director. This should prove interesting. I just wonder how much of the story he’s going to adapt for the movie. It’s a looong story, and the first part of it (collected as Gone To Texas) is not really as interesting as the rest of it. So I don’t know how well it would turn out if he just did that initial storyline. But I can’t wait to see who’s going to play super-powered preacher Jesse, his ex-girlfriend hitwoman Tulip, and Irish vampire Cassidy.

Around the same time that the HBO Preacher thing was initially bandied about, HBO also announced they were developing an adaption of George R.R. Martin’s seminal fantasy series A Song Of Ice And Fire. And then… nothing. Even though Martin said the project was still rattling around at HBO, no concrete confirmations of movement have been forthcoming and I assumed it was another victim of the leadership change at HBO. But I guess that HBO is now getting serious about this genre stuff due to the success of True Blood (That’s a success? Even though I like it, I thought the ratings numbers were down compared to past HBO successes. I guess the numbers have inched up lately.) So HBO has actually greenlit a pilot for the series. This is no guarantee that the show will make it to air, but it’s certainly an encouraging sign.

Even though the book series is unfinished and I’m only halfway through the most recent book, A Feast For Crows, I declare this series to be the best fantasy books ever written. Or at least the best I’ve read. And like the HBO press releases say, it’s a natural fit for pay cable. It’s more about the (twenty million) characters than the battles, magic, and creatures. (In fact, there’s very little of those last two in the books at all.) So the budget should be doable. And since there’s a lot of sex and violence, it’s not the kind of thing you’d want to see on say the SciFi Channel or in weekend syndication. A feature film would definitely not be able to tell even a fraction of the story (which, admittedly, does seem to wander a bit at times). They are talking about adapting the series as one book per TV season, which sounds about right. Even at that pace though, they’ll have to cut out a lot of ancillary characters and story. And it’s the perfect vehicle for big stars who may want to dabble in the genre and then be gone, since no character is ever safe in Martin’s universe.

So, I’m holding my breath. After what HBO did to Deadwood, Rome, Carnivàle, and John From Cincinnati, I’m a little worried about the whole story getting told once it gets started. But I’m willing to take that chance.

Latre.

Poignant Search Term Of The Day That Led To This Blog: “speed dial worry about misdialing”.

My friend Miles (who has a great new blog), recently reactivated his eMusic subscription and was asking me the other day for download suggestions. Rather than reply to him, I’d thought I’d make a blog entry out of it. Here’s stuff I downloaded from eMusic in 2008 that I enjoyed. Some of it was actually released in 2007 or thereabouts, but so what. And actually, a few of these I own on CD instead of digital-only, but I mention them because they’re available on eMusic. There was also a lot of stuff I downloaded that I didn’t like so much, but I don’t mention those. And there’s still a lot of it that I downloaded but haven’t listened to yet (like the new Sparks, which I’m sure I’ll love). So here’s the list, complete with links. (Note that the links make this post more substantial. Or at least more time consuming to compose.)

Bell X1: Flock
British Sea Power: Do You Like Rock Music?
The Buddyrevelles: Don’t Quit
The Bye Bye Blackbirds: Houses & Homes
California Oranges: Imperial Hearts
Dengue Fever: Venus on Earth
Destroyer: Trouble In Dreams
Don Dixon: The Nu-Look
Liam Finn: I’ll Be Lightning
Firewater: The Golden Hour
The Green Pajamas: Box of Secrets: Northern Gothic 2
Head Of Femur: Great Plains
Hello Dragon: The Quantum Explorers
I Was Totally Destroying It: I Was Totally Destroying It
Ladytron: Velocifero
The Long Blondes: Couples
Los Campesinos!: Hold On Now, Youngster
Mystery Jets: Zootime
Nerf Herder: IV
Piñataland: Songs For The Forgotten Future Vol. 2
Graham Parker: Don’t Tell Columbus
Ray: Death In Fiction
Scissors For Lefty: Underhanded Romance
Sloan: Parallel Play
Statuesque: The Grape & The Grain
Statuesque: Calling Nature’s Bluff
The Whitsundays: The Whitsundays

Happy Downloading!

Latre.

Jogged Today: Yes (@ 57°F)
Songs That Came Up On The iPod While Jogging:

• “Into The Fire” (Stranglers)
• “Under the Milky Way (acoustic)” (The Church)
• “Genius Is Static” (Statuesque)
• “Daddy’s Girl” (The Dream Syndicate)
• “You’re Not Supposed to” (Field Music)
• “So Begins Our Alabee” (Of Montreal)
• “Wheel Of Femmes” (The Celebrity Pilots)

Cool, Soothing Search Term Of The Day That Led To This Blog: “safeway hemorrhoidal ointment”.

It’s just right. It’s ahead of it’s time. “Don’t kid yourself, Sister… Five cents, please!” is just the perfect punchline. Lucy is wise beyond her years and knows how to deal with vain, self-delusional Frieda. (Since she’s somewhat vain and self-delusional herself, it’s easy for her to recognize a kindred spirit.) Hard to believe this strip originally appeared when I was 1 year old. The punchline does not look out of place on today’s comic page, especially with that “Sister” thrown in there. Lucy’s a sassy broad, and can definitely hold her own against modern precocious kids, like Ruthie from One Big Happy.

As I’ve mentioned before, it’s especially interesting (or depressing) to compare these earlier Peanuts strips against the ones from the last decade or two of the strip, when Schultz had started to lose it. Thankfully we have these old strips to remind us of better days. When Schultz passed away, I’m glad they didn’t have someone else continue the strip, but I was also leery of them reprinting the old strips. But I came around, especially since these days they’re reprinting the good old strips. It’s really a breath of fresh air on the morning comics page, when so many other strips (some of which have been around nearly as long as Peanuts*) provide zero laughs.

Or maybe I’m just feeling too nostalgic these days…

Latre.

* – Coincidentally, after composing this post, I opened the paper this morning to find out that two of the longest running not-funny strips, Garfield and Hagar The Horrible, have been replaced in the Rocky Mountain News by two newcomers, Deflocked (which seems to be an Over The Hedge clone but with a sheep) and The Knight Life (which looks like it’s drawn by Sergio Aragonés). If past experience is any indication, outcries from the older crowd will bring the two old strips back within a week.

Jogged Today: Yes (@ 53°F)
Songs That Came Up On The iPod While Jogging:

• “Plague of Lies” (Brain Surgeons NYC)
• “Morningside Heights” (Steve Wynn)
• “Anyday I Want” (House Of Love)
• “As the Dragonfly Flies” (Icicle Works)
• “Lavender” (The Go-Betweens)
• “Genesis CH.1. V.32″ (Alan Parsons Project)
• “That’s Me Trying” (William Shatner)

Poignant Search Term Of The Day That Led To This Blog:“the simpsons ain’t what it used to be”.

Anytime I see a Jeep on the road with a spare tire and a wheel cover, it always freaks me out. I always think that whoever is driving the jeep is going to explode in an orgy of violence. I steer well clear of it. I think it’s because the Jeep logo, which is usually plastered on the wheel cover, looks way too much like the logo of Marvel Comics character The Punisher:

What prompted Jeep to use a skull for it’s logo? That’s just downright weird.

And while we’re at it, what’s up with spare tires on the back of a vehicle instead of in the trunk? Seems like that practice would’ve died awhile ago. Although, come to think of it, my Prius would look pretty rad and pimped out with the spare tire mounted on the back. And it would actually give me some room in the “trunk”. Hmmmm….

Latre.

FYI, I’m on Twitter now. Don’t ask me why. Let me know if you’re there too! Oh, and for those of you viewing this through the RSS feed, I’ve added a Twitter widget to the left sidebar of the blog showing my latest updates. There’s probably an RSS feed for the updates at the above URL if you care.

Pet Peeve of the Day:

Poignant Search Term Of The Day That Led To This Blog: “how to get a person who is a hermit out of the house”.

Videogame(s) Played Yesterday: Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (DS). Got the Stone Circle! Two more spells to go.