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I mean, check out this awesome investigative report:

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Ya, so Veronica Mars is like one of the best shows ever. Only 3 epidodes into the 3rd season and already there's been a reference to the use of "frack" in BSG and a guitar hero reference. Best fuckin show ever.

Tonight's the first chance to catch me on the telly! I'll be on tonights "Shark" at 10pm on CBS. There's going to be a scene at a football practice, and you'll see me wearing a black shirt and black shorts in the background, while all the other dudes are wearing red. If you see the preview for tonights episode (on the CBS site or on tv) you can see me for like 1 sec maybe - the screen says "America's Football Hero" and shows the practice and we waddling around in the middle of the screen. Fuck ya. I might also be on tonights ER but since that's on at the same time, I'd say watch the Shark on instead - I'll d/l the ER tomorrow and see if it was the one I'm on.

Yesterday I spent almost 13 hours working on NCIS as a conventioneer at a "Forensic Science Expo" and that's gonna be on in about a month. I should totally be visible because I was used to block out a midget that the main chick of the scene was coming to see. After she passes me and turns around, I walk away thus revealing the midget. Long day but pretty cool. Tonight is an epic night-shoot for the show Ghost Whisperer on the backlot of Universal Studios. Should be rockin. I'll be an "on-looker" at a burning building. Wish me luck!

Nice to see another addict of the World's Best Game.

Buy a PS2. Seriously. Even at the new price ($129, plus memory card) it's the best deal on the market right now. You can get Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero II in like one month, and then five years of some of the best games ever made, for like $10-$20 apiece.

Hours and hours of entertainment for ridiculously cheap prices.

Yeah, that's pretty frakin insane. Right under the one you linked is one where a dude does that song on expert without looking at the tv- sweet jeebus. I pretty much just ran thru it all in Medium but I'm trying Hard and fuck - it's kinda Hard, haha. :)

Wow, never thought to check out YouTube for a video of people playing GH.. here is the mother of all tracks. Just watching this dude/dudette shred this up is enough to make me think it would take more practice time than I have to spend to get anywhere near clearing the song, let alone getting FOUR STARS.. LOL..

BARK AT TEH MOON

Crazy.

eric lent me his guitar hero tonight, and if we ever get ahold of another guitar, we're so doing the duel! these guys are way rad :)

yeah, i was sounding pretty gimp on medium lvl haha, but eric was rockin out on expert for me so i could smell the glory!

so eric, remember i dont have a regular job till the 30th, so let's hang out to do the podcast/gamin etc!

Re: vidcast for action team, it'd be sweet to film some of it in front of that wall of games-to-be-gone that u have in yer garage eric. That'd be sweet. Then segments from the rest of the dudes in other parts of the country they can be like correspondents and we cut away to them like a news cast. omg, lets start tonight! :P

Oh another cool segment could be dennis painting a minature but totally sped up so you see the whole process but like in 30 seconds. And it could have like the "flight of the bumblebees" song in the background. Haha - sweetness

Mommy, mommy.. I don't WANT to see grandma!

Shut up and keep diggin'..

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But, seriously. Why does it take 12-24 hours for posts to show up in the blogger, anyway?

As for Guitar Hero, I agree! Mad fun! I am aparently incapable of beating expert level.. although in my defense, I haven't had any time to really play through the songs and learn them. But, I was having a hard enough time with some of the runs, pulls and hammers on Hard that I think Expert would be real hard.

So i went to Elrocks today to totally play some games, but mostly we played Guitar Hero and then a little bit of rugby boardgame. WOW - that guitar hero is a pretty fun game! Just now, hours later, I started kinda craving it. Now, of course I don't own a damn PS2, but shiiit, that would almost be worth gettin one just for that game. Fuck, that'd be too epic though. Then I was reading previews for the sequel on GameSpy and DAMN, I'm so friggin jealous now! :(

Man, that Elzar the Gozarian is a huge dick.

Podcast, OMG. I don't have the slightest idea as to what I could contribute, but I'd be willing to help out? About the only recent gaming I've been able to conduct is flight simming, but I'm really not sure how riveting a discussion on air combat manuevering and breakdown of engagements would be. LOL. Well, I know that *I* would enjoy it.. but that might be about it. Heh.

Just be glad you didn't get the midnight drunk and dial last night. Anyone in my contact list was fair game, but I think Aaron gets these calls no matter what just by defaul of being the first name in my contact list. let's just say I was at a wedding reception with an open bar and the Scotch Monster got ahold of me and wouldn't let go.

Good times.

I got a phone call yesterday afternoon from the janitor at my wife's school, asking me if I would audition for their blues band today. That has to be one of the singularly most bizarre phone calls I've ever had. So, I went down there today to see what this thing was all about because, well, why not.. and as it turns out.. it's really more of an R&B group, not a Blues group. So, I have no idea what they'd need or want with an acoustic guitar guy.. but, whatever. I have the feeling that we were definately not what they were looking for. And, nevermind that I haven't been practicing on the geetar for the better part of 2 years or so now, so I've got total pussy hands with zero calouses. Calousses. Calous. Fuck if I know.

Yeah, like that.

P.S., Mike's avatar picture is teh hawtness. I'm just sorry we haven't had the opportunity to see it until now.

P.P.S. Bring back Ryan's snorkel avatar.

I say, go for the video-podcast! Now, I don't know how itunes handles them, I've seen some, and I guess a radio one would be easier/more sensible, BUT at the same time, a video-podcast might push it to the next level. It could be laid out just like you mentioned with those various idears you mentioned, but with video you could actually show the various games we'd talk about, and say for something like Blood Bowell, you could do little stop-motion segments to describe the various strats (or for all those war games u guys play - might help if there were a visual component to them.)

It could be like a poorman's version of Attack of the Show (minus the hot babes and carl's jr-esque attitude "buuuuuurger... friiiiies... and a coooooooooke".) Webcamz are teh cheap (i got 2 for zeus-sake!) and i would love to film little segments. But honestly, I've seen very few video-casts, so I don't know how popular they are or if u need anything else other than the usual podcasty things.

PS I'm just house-sitting in Gardena for the weekend, so I'm poor and bored, so if you wanted help on anything Eric just give me a jangle. Otherwise I will continue to read and watch glorious satelite terror-vision, rawr.

OK Myke... you have GOT to get call waiting! :) I've been trying to contact you all week in re: your super-duper-glue but your phone has been busy every time I've called. (I've tried calling 5 times!) Anyway, I am not gonna be around this weekend -- the ladyfriend and I decided last minute to go down to Monterey -- but I wanted to drop off your sweet, sweet glue in case you are gonna need it this weekend. Give me a call in the next hour or so. If I miss ya I'll just get it to you in a day or two, or alternately, find Enron's copy of Axis & Allies and dump the whole mess in there.

@Aeryk: I don't have any intriguing podcast ideas, but I'll put 'em up if I do... I have to admit, I'm not much of a radio guy. Although I have a face made for radio. Dude. I totally just worked myself over.

Cool Man

Mike: Good to hear from you after a good 4 months of absence! Thanks for the kind words for Leslie and I, and I hope you can make it through another hectic/insanity period in your life. Someday, in the not so distant future, I also hope you can kick your shoes off, settle back in a comfy chair, pour a nice Guinness cascade, and exhale. It's coming, when and where we don't know, but that day is coming!

All of The Action Team: If there were to be an AT podcast, what would be some segments that you would want from the greatest podcast ever? Some ideas I drummed up last night were:

"Thrill of Victory, Agony of Defeat" - Describe a game session where you achieved terrific victory, or had your ass handed to you on a plate, and how it all transpired.

"Coach's Corner" - Breakdown and dicussion of strategies and strategems for your favorite games.

And then the standard reviews, news, notes, and session reports that every podcast does to a small degree. Ideas?

*crickets, crickets*

Since I feel a bit like that rant was directed towards me, I think I should say that I don't view you or Leslie any differently than before. I love you both but as Jon and Aaron will testify I have precious little time in the universe for anything at the moment. This isn't my fault and I'm sorry if it makes anyone feel that I'm ignoring them because I'm really doing all I can to hold my life together and not have a nervous breakdown (again). Please don't take this blog to indicate that I'm upset either because I really just wanted to express my continued friendship as always on exactly the same terms. Though I might rarely communicate, you, my friends, are what keeps me going through these tough times, and you are actually always with me. Ok, that's about as much sentimentality as I can take, but you get the idea.

Rant away you slags!

Start the LAPD oct 30th! Rock! Was on my two fave shows this week, Dexter and Heroes! Ep 11 of Dexter (so like 2 months away) and episode 8 of Heroes (maybe about a month.) The heroes one i should be TOTALLY right there next to the star playing an India family member as he tosses his pop's ashes into the ocean - spent 12+ hours yesterday at Zuma beach for Heroes - was fuuuun - meet some really cool ppl doing it. So 2 more weeks of acting fun! Anyone got a spare 2k to lend a brother till he starts the new J-O? I will gladly be someone indentured servant for it. Chain me up!