Broken Miho - a Megatokyo Wallpaper, curently decorating my laptop. And I restarted reading Megatokyo again, because really, who needs to do work?
Scrapple is a savory mush of pork scraps and trimmings combined with cornmeal and flour, often buckwheat flour. The mush is formed into a loaf, and slices of the scrapple are then fried before serving. Scraps of meat left over from butchering, not used or sold elsewhere, were made into scrapple to avoid waste. Scrapple is best known as a regional American food of Delaware, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland. It sounds at once delicious and horrific, and I can't even eat it right now because it is SO not in keeping with a low-cholesterol diet.
You know what's more fun than a red hot poker in the eye? A chinese good restaurant fork in the nose. Really reallies, shows a picture of a child with a fork through it's nose. No, not one of mine!
What does Grey Goose cost so much? Because it's better. Why is Grey Goose better? Because it costs so much.
You think you have bad days? "Mr. Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip on Aug. 6, 1945, when a U.S. B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on the city. He suffered serious burns to his upper body and spent the night in the city. He then returned to his hometown of Nagasaki just in time for the second attack, city officials said."
'Tis the magical day of the luck of the Irish, and golden coins and green beer and wee little redheaded men.
Personally, my favorite tradition from the past few years has been to spend St. Patrick's Day going to someplace not usual for an Irish oriented dinner. Most folks will merrily go out to O'Restaurant or McBar or both.
Skeeve and I have taken rather delighted glee in spending St. Patrick's Day having dinner in, say... Garcias.
That's right, Lads and lassies - a Mexican restaurant for St. Patty's day!
Madness, you say. Insanity, you cry!
Ah, but: No wait time for a table, I counter. Plus, we've lucked upon at least one Mexican place that does in fact carry Guinness, so if we want it, there we have it.
Never fear, we put the wheel back into balance come Cinco de Mayo: While everybody's waiting and waiting to get into the right place to dance the Hat Dance, we're happily munching away in O'Restaurant - because with globalization and fusion in increasing effect in the modern world, we can totally pick up some Irish Nachos.
Hope you've all had a safe and fun holiday, folks. And that's no Blarney.
posted by: Bliss @ 11:10 PM
Monday, March 16
The Week in TKOP:
I leave you today with the latest in music sensations:
Another Friday the 13th. Another Friday Five. Oh! And today is the day that Resident Evil 5 comes out! I think the number is definitely in the air... or is that the Tri Cell Virus? Hmmm... This week, in honor of zombies and horrific phobias, I present the de-evolution of a once great survival horror franchise.
1. Resident Evil - The voice acting was gloriously bad, and if you played it then congratulations! You are the "master of unlocking... things". But, apart from that, the first RE locked us in a creepy mansion filled with zombies, with limited ammo, limited ability to save our progress, and a wonderfully realized b-movie plot. How then... did it all go so wrong?
2. Resident Evil 2 - Just down the way from the creepy mansion is the town of Raccoon City, and everyone there is totally F***ED. Zombies shamble about everywhere, and once again we have limited resources to save ourselves from the horde. This was arguably RE at it's best. It upped the challenge and the scale of the first game while preserving the tension and claustrophobia that defined the genre... even if Leon S. Kennedy was a scrawny, whiny, emo replacement for the first game's hulking, completely disagreeable Chris Redfield.
3. RE 3: Nemesis - RE 3 threw us back into the high heels of super cop Jill Valentine from RE1, on her own mission through Raccoon City during the events of RE2. She is chased by a beastly zombie creature called Nemesis that just refuses to die. Come to think of it, most zombies refuse to die. I think that's their thing. This one feels a lot like Rocky 3, in that, all the pieces are there, but the puzzle isn't put together right. It's too easy in parts, too hard in others and we really just don't care one bit about what's going on. The big hulking zombie guy? I'll put my money on Clubber Lang any day.
4. Resident Evil 4 - Skipping Code Veronica and all the other unnumbered knockoffs and side stories that watered down the franchise between Nemesis and this, we move on to RE4. No more evil corporation, no more zombie virus. Now the bad guys are pseudo-zombies, victims of a genetic experiment that apparently makes them pissy and quick to violence against Leon S. Kennedy but, not each other. Stir in a bunch of 80's glam costumes for your villains and you've got yourself something that looks like Resident Evil brought to you by the makers of Flash Gordon. Oh, and you have to rescue The President of The United States' daughter from the "zombies" who are holding her hostage... Riiiiiiiiiight.
5. Resident Evil 5 - Who said N*****?! Capcom did. Miffed because mainstream press didn't grab hold of their attempt to make racism fun with RE4's spanish heathen bad guys, the big wigs take RE1's alpha whitey to Africa for some good old mega lynching. Look, it's not racist because the protagonist is white and the antagonists are black, stupid, poor, dirty, and subscribe to a gang mentality. It's more subtle than that... I think.
So, there you go, from good old fashion zombie killing fun to shooting mobs of angry black people in 5 moves. I can see the argument that the new game isn't racist or even meant to be racist, but to that I say this: Imagine any zombie movie ever. Replace all the zombies with black people. How effed up is that image? That's RE5. Out today on the 360 and PS3 for $59.99. Get yours today!
posted by: Zero @ 5:26 PM
Wednesday, March 11
TFRL has its towel.
posted by: Torn From Real Life @ 10:28 PM
Tuesday, March 10
Mini-Linkdump
CNN - A message has been found inscribed on the inside of Abraham Lincoln's pocketwatch.
Nobody Scores - The latest in my personal list of Webcomics You Should Be Reading.
Julie Gonzalo - An actress on S3 of Veronica Mars. She was also the cheerleader girl in Dodgeball that Justin Long's character was loin-achingly desperate to impress.
The Hero Factory - first came to my attention as one of the latest image-centric memes circulating Livejournal. Found the Hero creation process to be bemusingly similar to the same process in CoH.
A Pink Paisley Dress - yeah, no, seriously, me and pink? I don't know, dudes. Plus, paisley. Ew. And yet somehow I still find it appealing.
I think that's my clue to be done with linkdumping.
posted by: Bliss @ 11:16 PM
Friday, March 6
Zero's Friday Five
What do these statements have in common, I wonder?
1. "This is the last of earth! I am content." - John Q. Adams 2. "I can't sleep." - James Barrie 3. "Now comes the mystery." - Henry Ward Beecher 4. "That was the best ice-cream soda I ever tasted." - Lou Costello 5. "Tell them I said something." - Pancho Villa
posted by: Zero @ 1:16 PM
Wednesday, March 4
TFRL needs some wasabi and some soy sauce.
posted by: Torn From Real Life @ 11:41 PM
Tuesday, March 3
A Haiku.
Back hurts. Doctor is a misogynistic jerk. Urge to kill... rising.
posted by: Bliss @ 9:19 PM
Monday, March 2
This week in TKOP!
Ok, so, sometimes my links and comments get to be too internal, perhaps too self referential... To aid in this, and to kind of set up an even keel, her'e ONE link this week, that will make it so that we can all have a common starting place:
posted by: Bliss @ 9:34 PM
