Me and Jennifer Love Hewitt sharing a tender moment in last night's Ghost Whisper.

If Art found that, kudos, because that was some of the funniest shit I have seen in a while!

Especially where he rolls and licks the joint, all the while maintaining a smile.

Funny, it somehow seems appropriate that I'm posting as Eric tonight.. LOL.. (O-rugs here). Found this clip and thought it was hilarious:

Rummie gets creative

hey jon, is this you!?
alienschizoid.spaces.live.com/
I was googling you to see if you put out anymore zombie books or whatever, and seen this. I dunno!

Other weird shit I've learned about you in the last 8 or so minutes, that isnt the title to that zombie anthology:

*Jon Petersen, raised by missionary parents in Tokyo, Japan, has been dedicated to reaching cities most of his adult life.

Jon Petersen, 56, is a computer programmer who holds an M.S. in mathematics from Stanford University.

*Lifelong Los Gatos resident Jon M. Petersen died June 2 at the age of 37.
:(

EDIT: PWNAN TEH LOLBARIAN!!1!!1!1!!!!1 Saw that on a Conan MMO forum and really liked it.

Second Opinion: I concur with Art's prognosis!

We rocked out at Guitar Hero 1 at work last week. Afterwards one of the weird new guys told me that I should invite him along next time because he's really good at it. He's beat it on Expert, and also his girlfriend can beat it on Expert, but she prefers to play it at Hard. I told him I was doing pretty well for myself at Expert but had been stuck at "Crossroads" (the last song in the 2nd to last set) for a long time.

The next day I see him and he says "Oh, yeah, I decided to play Guitar Hero last night after we talked about it. I played Crossroads on Expert. First try, four stars."

So that night I went home and played the shit out of that song. That stupid fucking song. The first time I got 95% of the way into it and crapped out. I hate that stupid part at the time. The second time I did crappy. I always well the first time but fail on subsequent attempts, with that song. So then I rocked out to "More Than A Feeling," came back to Crossroads, and then something changed halfway into the song. Something changed? Everything changed. I suddenly knew down in my bones that I was gonna beat that motherfucker that try. And I did. I did, Aeryk. Yes, I moved past the Crossroads I had been stuck at for so long. I beat that motherfucker and then I punched it in the pants-cock.

Then I tried Cowboys From Hell on Expert and said "What the fucking fuck? This fuck is impossible." So I stopped and went to bed. I should have stopped the story last paragraph but I still think it was good.

The Doctor prescribes: Throwing in the original GH and rocking out to "More Than a Feeling" for a minimum of three full practice sessions to get your spirits back up.

Living End (of Eric)

Institutionalized is ridiculous, but this is hard too. At least for me, but then again, I did:

1) Go to El Camino
2) Play in Misguided Youth
3) NOT play in The Holophrastics

Fcuk me. This is hard. I don't even want to try it again! :(

Wow. I agree.. that doesn't look like much fun. Yikes.

In new, news: I tested out of financial accounting. So that means no more 8am class for me the rest of this semester. ROCK! Woooo!!!1!

In other new, news: I was eating a bowl of cereal on the couch this morning and Haylee came over and gave me the full overhand chop to the balls with a vacuum cleaner attachment piece. I'm talking the $10,000 home video winner chop of the century. Spilled my cereal all over the place as I fell off the couch in total agony. Ugh. How do kids have such perfect crotch-radar? I swear, she's just learning how to toss and catch a ball, but if you let your guard down for 1 second, she's going to give you the 92mph fastball to the daddy-sack with deadly accuracy.

Bonus-track: Was at the store yesterday and Haylee pointed to this skinny dude standing in front, facing away from us, with really 'pretty' blond hair (to be fair, I thought it was a chick, too.. LOL).. and loudly proclaims.. "MOMMY!" Hahahaa.. oh man, that was funny.

awesome write up duder! but jesus h chris - dont look if u dont wanna be spoiled, but Suicidal's Institutionalized on Expert ***fuck me***. That doesnt even look fun.

Guitar Hero II

a play in 2 scenes

SCENE ONE

ERIC is pleased to have purchased Guitar Hero II from FRYS ELECTRONICS earlier in the day, and is playing the game for the first time.

ERIC: Hey! This is pretty fun! More of the same I suppose, but still, fun to play new songs! The hard level is not even all that hard, secretly I think I am the best Guitar Hero player of the Action Team, but I will never let any of them know, there is a delicate balance of power that must remain intact amongst the Action Team.

Time passes, and ERIC continues to play songs on the hard level

ERIC: Wow! I have completed 30 of the 40 songs possible on Hard level and I have only failed one time! Geez, I am starting to think that either I am too good at Guitar Hero, or this game is kinda lame cause it is too easy. Oh well, I think I will stop this session for now, and comeback and play the next block of songs later.

ERIC leaves the back room and attends to his duties as a father, husband, and generally nice guy.

PS2: Oh, this fucking piece of cocksucking shit thinks he is some kinda cocksucking Guitar Hero? Well, come next session, this cocksucker is going to show that fucking cocksucking cocksucker who is the real cocksucker round these parts....

SCENE TWO

ERIC enters backroom, confident that he will rock the socks off anything that the Guitar Hero and PS2 can throw at him.

ERIC: Alright, so this section of tracks contains and Anthrax tune, cool! I think I will save that one til last, and start with this song, that is apparently by The Living End. Hmmm, I hated that band, this song is going to suck.

THE LIVING END and PS2 proceed to kick the cocksucking shit out of ERIC so badly that he crumples in a smoldering heap of cocksuck at the altar of cunts, and fails the song 12% into it, the intro is the most ridiculous thing he as ever seen, it makes the expert Cemetary Gates seem easy.

ERIC: (in the most pathetic whimpering voice ever) Why? Why have you done this to me PS2? How is this possible? How can Guitar Hero II be so easy and then unimaginably hard? Why? How?

PS2: ...

EPILOGUE

ERIC has picked himself up off the cocksucking altar of cunts and dusted himself off, and discovered PRACTICE MODE in Guitar Hero II. PRACTICE MODE allows you to play certain parts, or all parts of a song all the way through without failing and offers the ability to slow the song down from slightly slowere to a crawl to practice. While this offers no solice to ERIC because it has not helped him with the insanely hard, intricate and cocksucking fast song by THE LIVING END, it offers him hope. Hope that when he somehow, somewhere completes THE LIVING END song, the next song, by REV HORTON HEAT, is perhaps less difficult.

UPDATE

ERIC has cheated and looked ahead, and The REV HORTON HEAT song is infact just as stupidly hard. ERIC seriously doubts he will be able to pass this block of songs on hard mode.

Hey guys! I don't know about you bunch of fuckin' pro-gay marriage, faggot Republigays, but I'm pleased as punch with the election results. I stayed up late (midnight! ooh!), watched Daily Show, did that whole thing.

Convention Time approaches! Or as we sometimes spell it now: Khunvhensheyyunnuneynnn Ttyyihhiehmmmemiilemmelimmeeeeeeee. It is our way. I'm looking forward to another weekend of trying to select a game and Dirty Sanchezes. Actually I think the proper plural of that is Dirty Sancheezi.

More good news yesterday. In addition to the good news out of the government vis a vis no longer having so many shitbags in office, we got the word that we are approved for our new place. Hooray! You might remember that I moved in with the ladyfriend at the start of October. That was into her 1-bedroom place while we waited out the lease on her place, but still got to avoid the plague of rats at my old place. However we immediately started looking and we just got this place that is somehow even CLOSER to Enron than before. Someday soon he will open his cupboard and we will jump out of it Trainspotting style. But until then we have a cute little 2-bedroom place with enough room for the two of to hide from each other when one is pissed. And plenty of storage space. I am pleased.

Enron-Myke, what's going on this weekend? I am pretty much a solo bachelor this Saturday-Sunday and would love to get together one/both of those days. Note that I just assume that you guys will want to hang out with me every moment of free time that I have. I'm basically egotistical like that.

Also one of you guys should update the game spreadsheet for Sunday's game. Aeryk? You haven't played any board games since your rousing game of Kahuna on 9/24? I hate to crack the whip but you guys will thank me in 20 years when we're almost 100, looking back on a lifetime of shared experiences.

Keep in mind that not only was I drunk last night, I was also bitter, and it was related to why I was drunk. <3

Anyways, set yer Tivo's to record next Monday's episode of the hit NBC show HEROES! Cuz I'ma be on it! Here's a screen cap from the preview - and they shot all kinds of closer shots than this crap, so maybe you'll get a chance to see my man-boobles up close!

Post Scrizzle: Nice fuckin drummin! I was always thinking they need to do a "Drum Hero" game. The bongo one was pretty fun on gamecube, but comeon - take a cue from Guitar Hero and make some cool drum set controller. OR with the Wii numchucks maybe have some sweet air drumming game. I think I saw on of the early Wii promo ads with a dooshbag pretending to play air drums. Oh, and there's already vids up of ppl playing 2-player GH2 and there looks like theres some cool surf kinda song that I cant WAIT to come play with you Eric! Lemme know when it's good to go and I will be there!

Convention Cup

So I was walking the whipper-snapper around Del Amo today and I came across some store called Special Memories, or some crap. They do trinket gifts and then engrave them, and I saw this sweet stainless steel tankard and thought what a cool thing to have for an ongoing Action Team Convention Tournament Trophy. We could name the cup, then whoever won the tournament that convention would get their name, the con name, and the year engraved. They would get the rights of the cup until the next con when they would have to bring it back for the next tourney!

Awesome!

One problem though, there is not a game that we could all agree on to have a tournament for I don't think. So, back to the drawing board I suppose.

I mean, I would LOVE for it to be an ASL cup, or even a Blood Bowl cup, but I digress....

Happy post: Best Funk Drummer Evah!

Dude has mad crazy drummage skills.

Actually, it wasn't a legalization, it was a decriminalization of possession of a small amount of pot. There's a HUGE difference between the two. And, I happen to agree with you about the legalization of drugs. If they legalized the production and sale of drugs, it would take the black market profit out of the process, improve overall safety and create a tax revenue stream to pay for rehab/education. Plus, it would take at least 60% of our prison population off the tax dole. Of course, tinfoil hat guy says.. why do you think the government WANTS to keep drugs in the black market? Their off-the-books activities make rediculous money playing that game. See: Afghanistan, world's largest producer of opium.

Anyway.


edit: I thought it was funny, Eric.

edit-edit: It is a bit weird to see little-kid-me talking about adult-speak topics. LOL.

Borat-edit: From what little I've seen of this 'bit', I don't find it convincing in the slightest, which kind of kills the gag for me. The dude looks like he's stuck somewhere between Jerry Seinfeld and Balki. I dunno.

Click-edit: I wanted to see this movie so badly.. and now I understand why it bombed in the box office. SO FUCKING BAD. Gah.

Marie-Antoinette (remix edit): On the flip side, I didn't really want to see this movie, went anyway, and wound up thinking it was very well done. It's definately only for someone who enjoys artsy character-study films, however. If you enjoyed Lost in Translation, then this movie may be for you.

Teh Votes Are In!

Dems were pretty big winners on the day, though the Governator is still in charge. Not surprisingley, and overwelmingly, many states from the midwest and south have banned same sex marriage, raised minimum wage, and disallowed medical marijuana! Shocking!

Alternative Fuel measure failed, which is nice, proves that if you got a lot of money for campaigning and can put huge, and numerous adds on TV that shows that (editorials) from all sorts of newspapers oppose this bill, and that taxpayers(which techinically includes oil producers) also oppose it, then it MUST be bad. The planet needs to learn to a) read between the lines, b) understand what EDITORIAL means, and c) immediately vote AGAINST anything and everything that included Big Oil as a supporter.

What to do with Criminals

These are my ideas:

1) Organize incarcerated criminals into squads and platoons, and then fit each one with a little collar that contains explosives. Then, we ship em to Iraq and send them in waves at the bad guys, whoever that may be on any given day. Then, when they get close the the enemey, they detonate their collars and 'splode, killing themselves and the enemy. Oh yeah, one in 10 collars is a dud so there is a chance the criminal will go free, which is nice for the criminal. They will have tried to kill themselves, which will change their lives dramatically, then they will be upstanding citizens, if they can escape the battlefield somehow, that is. This idea MIGHT come from Warhammer 40K back in the day, but I'm really not that sure. They MIGHT have been called Penal Legions, and I MIGHT have thought they were a pretty cool idea.

2) Make them all play human Battle Chess for the whims of the ultra rich, and broadcast the gaames on TV for the profits of the ultra rich, and the amusement of the poor.

3) Perform medical experiments on them.

4) Make leather items out of them. Human Leather shoes sound good to me! Human Leather Apolstery for cars! Awesome!

5) Ship em all the Australia again, and see what happens.

6) Ship em to the moon and see what happens.

Hmmm... this post seemed funny at first, then I lost my way somehow and never really got back on track...

- Guitar Hero II is pretty fun so far. I am playing on hard, and have passed the first 2 blocks of songs, of which there has been an even mix of cool and not so cool songs. I dunno, its not groundbreaking, its just more of the same really, which is not a bad thing. I think it will really shine wit the two player option. Hard is pretty hard, but the game seems more forgiving. THere are some hard solos, but you don't seem to lose as many points for F'ing up as with the first one, either that or I am hitting way more notes that I think I am when I am fumbling through the songs. AND, three finger chords! I smell GenCon killer if I were to pack it up in the truck for the con!

- Call of Duty 3 today, which is nice.

- My ASL Podcast is going to be called "Chapter K" and references a chapter in the rules that is a "how to" for playing ASL that teaches through a silly tutorial regarding a squad leader and some troops. Useful read, and I thought I captured what I wanted to do with the 'cast quite well. I have my mic, my mixer, my software, and my idea, now all I need to do is record a show and become famous among the niche of a nich of a niche listeners!

no offense taken, not personal, it's a strong view, so hope you didn't fully misunderstand or take offense either....

and I think the corruption youre referring to is a bit off of the capital punishment for civil crimes i was talking about. I still believe in democracy, martial crimes under dictatorship sucks, but that doesn't mean our justice system can't incorporate harsher penalties. We still have death penalties in some states, just not all and prefer rehabilitation and non-lethal types of punishment.

I just think the death penalty should be used more often. But then the problem becomes proving guilt, etc etc which involves more lawyer grease and a collapse of our failed judicial system, but i am referring to the ones that are proven guilty?

Meh, I didn't say my comments were flawless, still, doesn't mean I don't believe in the concept.

i'm drunk right now, so no offense meant, but regarding china and it's crime rate, you can't forget governmental/corporate corruption in that place. It's pretty fucking brutal. They will fucking take your land right from under you and then plop that cherry on top by snuffing you out if you try to fight back. There was some british shit-eating cocksuckers (deadwood influence) that were barely able to film a documentary in China about just that - corrupt local governments will forcibly remove you from your land that you most rightfully own to make way for whatever big-business sees fit to use that piece of parcel. And if you don't shutup and take it like a man, you go bye bye. Is that "capital punishment"?

And I didn't go vote - sorry ryan. I had the prior engagement of gettin this here kinda drunk. I blame propagandhi! They told me it doesnt make a difference, and seeing as that fit into my current like of thinking, I reckoned I'd follow by example. Plus I ain't got cable, so no "Rock the Vote" inticin' done come my way. My most sincere apologies.

P the fuck S - Why the fuck is it blogger don't ever wanna publish posts at this here hour. It will fucking loop the "publishing post 0%" till I done grown goddamned fuckin hair on my palms. SORRY for the fuckin' language.

I'll have to agree and disagree somewhat - carrying an ounce or 4 ounces is not the issue, by legalizing it means legalizing the buying which is not addressing the main problem. The lucrative business is still growing and selling. Unless you legalize growing and make it so it's ubiqitous, by legalizing marijuana just increases the fluidity and profitability of the drug trade.

So I agree with you man, but we have to go 1 step further, be like amsterdam, be able to grow your own shit too.

OFF TOPIC...
Joe-crack should be shot.
Joe-rapist should be shot.
Joe-killer should be shot.

... and their families made to pay for the bullet (to save cost on our system) I am a firm believer in capital punishment. No joke, dr. jones. Prime example being China and Singapore. Notice the non-existent crime rate?

As long as I am
Not a crack addict
Not a rapist
Not a killer.

then i won't be shot. See the correlation? It's a bit harsh, but we live in a harsh place.

Johnny

I'm fairly interested to see how the Marijuana proposition/initiative goes on this ballot. It is essentially a decriminalization of 1oz or less of pot, which I'm all for. It failed last year after the squares figured out just how much pot 4 ounces really was. Hehe.. but I think the 1oz initiative/prop this year has a very good chance of passing. It's about time we start realizing that locking up non violent drug offenders (SIXTY PERCENT OF OUR CURRENT PRISON POP) is absolutely rediculous and solves nothing.. plus it displaces (read: lets them out early) non-mandatory sentencing criminals like.. oh.. say.. rapists and sexual predators. Just so we can keep Joe Pothead locked up (or Jimi Cracksmoker, if you prefer).

Whatever. This country is so damned backwards on social issues. Sigh.

I apologize in advance if the Republicans stay in power. I've been voting Green for the past few years. It's my fault Bush is president.

Oh, and if I can't create a work of art comparable to THIS, my life will have been completely meaningless.

Please, everyone vote tomorrow.

1. Take a few minutes (that is all it really takes, honestly) to familiarize yourself with the Proposition issues and vote.

2. It would be nice to have the democrats take back control of the House of Representatives.

But, either way, get out there. Seriously. No excuses. Don't be lazy.

*gets off soapbox*

Quote of the day...

When they say, "Democrats will raise taxes," you say, "We have to, because some asshole spent all the money in the world cutting Paris Hilton's taxes and not killing Osama bin Laden." In just six years the national debt has doubled. You can't keep spending money you don't take in, that's not even elementary economics, that's just called "Don't be Michael Jackson."

D>M>

Yeah I really wanna see Borat but I haven't been to the movies in honestly like 2 years. I love movies, but I just don't have the drive or patience anymore to sit in a theater. I told Eric he had to watch Borat in the theater with me or no more ASL ever. It might work!

You GOTTA see the Ali G show. The british version is a lot funnier than the US version - but both are good. Most of the skits are on youtube and shit like that, the other characters are Bruno and Ali G - all funny. Yeah, I didn't even see Batman Begins in theater and I really liked that movie.

This weekend was epic Deadwood marathonage. I watched ALL of season 2 on saturday and I've gotten thru about half of season three today. OMG. I'll prolly get in another 2 episodes before I sleep. Then when it's all done, I will have an empty place in my <3

Jon, saw Borat today. Funny shit! I was dying during that fight scene... and also the frat guy scene. WAY good.

My favorite was the national anthem... and the theatre was PACKED!

"I support your War of Terror!"

Borat = hilarious. Oh my God, it's just wrong all over. It's basically a Humanity Point generator. You guys have to see this if you haven't already.

There's this bit where he gets in a fight with his producer that is... good Lord. One of the most WRONG things I've ever seen. So tempting to say more... but I'll resist.

Makes me want to go back and check out the show. I've never seen any of the Ali G business, I've heard it's hilarious.