Hey, Joss Whedon is doing another tv show! AND its gonna be on FOX!!! Oh, it's so gonna last... BUT, at least we'll probably get a few episodes of a rad show b4 they can it. Here's the interview - sounds interesting.

CLUCK!

| Best Halloween Costume Evar

I only wish I was that cool back in the day.

Thanks for hosting the party Enron. "Ghoulies" was a marvellously stupid movie and a fun movie to drink beer to. Also, congratulations on your astonishing outlay on D&D Minis, you've far surpassed my collection in one fell swoop! Brutal!

Meanwhile, I've gone a little nuts buying stuff on ebay for this pre-painted squad-based wargame called AT-43. It is kinda pricey at MSRP, as a squad of pre-paints costs about the same as a similar box of nicer unpainted stuff for Warmachine, but at 50-75% off on ebay or Warstore it almost seems reasonable.

Meanwhile, it looks like some distribution problems with AT-43 have caused some brick and mortar stores to actually increase their prices over MSRP on the minis. Gamescape has a decent selection of the minis but their prices are completely insane. They were asking $96 for the starter, which has an MSRP of $80, and similiarly crazy price increases for most of the unit boxes. Endgame also has marked up a lot of the box prices for $5 or more. Not as bad, but enough to make me default to buying online. Way to compete with the online environment, guys.

| 4 day vacation in Mango Paradise!!@#@

National holiday 'ere and what am I gonna do with all of it??

1) Strategize in revamping my Fantasy Hockey Team to kick some AT and NOn-AT teams bee-hind. PF team been really suckin it the last few weeks. Made some really necessary changes in the net and some really deep cuts in left wing and defense. What can you do.. they got complacent to the easy living in Jones city.

2) Take the missus to enchanted kingdom ---- aka magic mountain. I doubt this place will be any good, and truth be told, probably a little more riskier than MM...

3) Go to girlie bars when the missus is not here

4) Do some work related stuff and do some off reading.

That's all!

| Happy Samhain (pronounced /ˈsˠaunʲ/ from the Old Irish samain)

How the fuck does that "pronounced" help!? I thought it was pronounced SAM-HAIN ... I stole gif from SA, it cracked me up at work so here, on this spooktacular night.

So far I am pwning teh noob in this one (4-3 isn't really a pwn I guess), but yikes with the broken team. Fuck sakes, I should have named my team Redondo Made-O-Glass. I don't think I have ever had a full, healthy squad. It's on Aaron, or should I say, Erin! Ha! Burn!

Kind of reminds me of Blood Bowl, when my team was totally broken, my opponent kept rolling a 19 or 20 on the injury chart, and I only have one play with one turn left- that is to go for it twice to try to tie the game, and its Thanksgiving. Was that how it went, Eric?

| Fantasy Hockey Matchup of the Week

The game we are ALL watching pits the SF Frostgiants against the Redondo Anger! The most notable bit of trivia regarding this matchup is that there are 10 players on either the IR or are listed DTD between the teams!

PS My GM and coaching skills are terrible, just terrible. My team is a poor sack of poo poo.

| GH3: Post Mortem

So, I beat the sumbitch Devil, and it was as they said it would be, either all or nothing. I broke him pretty easily, so I think it has to do with which power attack you get, and which on he gets. If they are too brutal, or not brutal enough, just start over cause there is no point in trying. Your results may vary.

I have taken to playing difficult songs on expert practice so that I can't fail and still have fun trying to get through the song all the way. My high score, and first try on the Dragonforce song was 187,449 on expert. BEAT THAT JORNATHAN!

Fun game. And the hammer-ons are TOTALLY responsive and there are parts in songs that you can only hammer-on which is a new way to rock! I likes it!

Anyway, looking forward to co-oping with anyone sometime.

Rawk outs with yer kawks out.

I like GH3, but the problem I have is that the tracklist balance is out of whack. There aren't any songs the '90s or the 'Bushies until Tier 4, and I was feeling a little bit of classic rock overload.

I've only battled Tom Morello, but that was the lamest shit ever... it look less than a minute to finish. Not the epic I was imagining.

Definitely gonna be Rock Band FTW I think.

At least once I beat the Devil, I'll own Eric's soul too!

| GH3:Revised

The songs get better, and more fun certainly. The Boss battles (new feature!)vs. Tom Morello, Slash, and the Devil are kinda lame. On hard, for me anyway, the final battle to beat the devil is unpossible. So I looked online and everyone says one of two things:

1) You are ghey and a fag and should get better at GH3 n00b.
2) Wait til you get one special powerup, then deliver it to him at a certain time and you will win.

Either way, it kinda sucks. So far, he hands my ass to me because he has first shot at a powerup, then gives it to me at the worst possible time, which included my chance for a powerup, thereby sealing my fate because I can never crawl outta the hole he puts me in. Not much fun, but whatevs.

I used a cheat to unlock all the songs, because to unlock some like Dragonforce, you need to beat the game first, and I ain't gonna beat it against the Devil. So, all the songs are available to me and they are fun! Playing One, Number of the Beast, etc. is a blast, so GH3 succeeds in delivering some fun songs, but the tedium to unlock them legit is a little rough, but using the cheat somehow validates all the work so far and I look forward to rocking out some co-op!

| Guitar Hero III: An Early Take

I have the PS2 version and as is my standard rocking out procedure, I play though the game on hard first so that I can see all the songs before getting stuck on any of them and getting frustrated. So far I have rocked 30 though the 42 basic songs and am relatively unimpressed.

I know you gotta stick the crappy songs somewhere, but so far I have played:

Tier 1: Starting Out Small
1. Slow Ride (as made famous by Foghat)
2. Talk Dirty to Me (by Poison)
3. Hit Me with Your Best Shot (as made famous by Pat Benetar)
4. Story of My Life (as made famous by Social Distortion)
5. Encore: Rock and Roll All Nite (as made famous by Kiss)

Tier 2: Your First Real Gig
7. Mississippi Queen (as made famous by Mountain)
8. School’s Out (as made famous by Alice Cooper)
9. Sunshine of Your Love (as made famous by Cream)
10. Barracuda (as made famous by Heart)
11. Boss: Tom Morello’s Original Boss Battle Recording
12. Encore: Bulls on Parade (by Rage Against The Machine)


Tier 3: Making The Video
14. When You Were Young (by The Killers)
15. Miss Murder (by AFI)
16. The Seeker (as made famous by The Who)
17. Lay Down (by Priestess)
18. Encore: Paint It Black (by The Rolling Stones)

Tier 4: European Invasion
20. Paranoid (as made famous by Black Sabbath)
21. Anarchy in the U.K. (by The Sex Pistols)
22. Kool Thing (by Sonic Youth)
23. My Name is Jonas (by Weezer)
24. Encore: Even Flow (by Pearl Jam)

Tier 5: Bighouse Blues
26. Holiday in Cambodia (as made famous by Dead Kennedys)
27. Rock You Like a Hurricane (as made famous by Scorpions)
28. Same Old Song and Dance (by Aerosmith)
29. La Grange (as made famous by ZZ Top)
30. Boss: Slash’s Original Boss Battle Recording

Meh. None of these songs are all that memorable, nor interesting to play. At least on hard, maybe expert will liven things up a bit, but I am certainly not fulfilling any RockStarDreams by pretending I am in AFI, or Sonic Youth, or Aerosmith in the 70's.

I know the best is yet to come, and I don't really know what there is left, I mean I do know a few but not all, so I am at least still hopeful.

I do think the Co-Op Career mode sounds cool!

We haven't gotten out and seen the city much lately so we decided to go to Bernal Heights, get lunch at one of two restaurants, and go to the Farmer's Market.

The restaurant famous for its chicken pot pies was closed.
The Peruvian restaurant was closed.
The Farmer's Market was closed.

D'oh! At least we got to the Bernal Heights park, which is pretty amazing. One of the best 360 degree views of the city I've ever seen.

We also saw Darjeeling Limited. Disappointingly, but I guess unsurprisingly, it wasn't very good. It wasn't bad either, just "meh." Considering that Rushmore is, like, the best movie ever made, it's too bad. I don't expect Wes Anderson to hit home runs every time, but a double or triple once in a while would be nice.

(That was a baseball metaphor.)

And oh yeah. Chili-covered chocolate is quite good. A little bit of chili is also quite good in hot chocolate. Try it! Just don't put any in your fucking eye!

| Eww

I just saw Henry Rollins doing a NASCAR teaser/intro thing on TV. Pretty gross. I mean, fuck I'd do KKK recruitment ads if there was some GREEN involved, but I figured that dude was more "fuck the man" than me. He looked old as hell too, like they had all these close-ups and he's all "NASCAR is the POWER to drive on!" or whatever, but he looked like bruce willis almost hahaha. DOOOSH.