A day or two ago I mentioned how little snow we've gotten and of course boom, he comes a blizzard. Not StarCraft II Blizzard, because that'll probably never come at this point, but a huge amount of snow. Unlike usually where the snow just comes from south or northwest then tapers off by the time it reaches Milwaukee county, a lot of the eastern winds are causing it to swirl around and dump most of it here. Gonna have up to 14 inches.

And now I have to go plow again despite that it's cold, my cloths are still wet from the last time and I just really don't want to.

I would stab it right in the eye. People who think we should cut the Public Broadcasting budget make me rage. I can't imagine getting news from something as worthless as CNN or Fox. Sure it's fun to watch Rich Sanchez chew people out or Shep Smith rag on his own network, but occasionally I want news without DOOM FONT.


And I got asked if I could could bake something for a few people. So I got up early and managed to be pretty productive. Made 2 cheescakes, 6 rolled poppy seed cakes and around 50 pączki..these sort of Polish donuts... with  orange glaze. Eat your heart out, Cooking Mama.

Ok I cheated on the poppy seeds because I bought a ready made filling. It's a pain to make because the seeds have go through a grinder at least twice to get them the right taste and consistency. lol, total faggotry itp

Do have to go to that party today. Hope there's alcohol because that's the only way I'll get through it.

Funny that this happens to be today's promt. Just now as I was driving home the guy in front of me turned on his emergency lights. His fuel gauge was broke so he ran out of gas and asked me if I'd drive him to the nearest station. So of course I did. Kinda worried my karma is out of balance now so I'll probably push someone in front of a train later.

Did get invited to a party so gonna try weaseling my way out of that. Occasionally hanging out is one thing but I despise parties, especially when it's with people I don't know.



Also, I've realized I am a complete hoarder. And no I'm not talking about video games, though I have the same compulsion of never using items. For some reason it just hit me now "Why do I still have floppy disks?". It's a disk case with several floppies. It's been YEARS since I've even had a computer with a floppy drive. One is a Windows 98 start up disk. When was the last time I've ever seen a Windows 98 loading screen? Yet I'm still hesitant to just throw them away.

Waldenbooks at Southridge is closing which makes me sad for future of books and book stores/libraries in general. Borders is think of selling itself off while B&N is deleting more stores. That with budget problems for many cities, and generally just people like this, libraries are having a harder time as well.

And let me say, I personally don't like ebooks. It's just an eye-strain reading anything that long on a computer or reading device. Yeah it's old fashioned curmudgeonry but I like books. Holding the entire thing and going through it page by page. The smell, the feel, the little crinkles on the page or folded corners because it's your 20th time through and need a new copy. You don't get that from kindle or any reading device. Sure one day everything will probably become electronic but now we'll have places where people can't get books even if they want to.


That and America's oldest enemy is back. That's right, Adult Swim is going to have a Brit Block. Who could've seen this coming? So now they're playing The Office, Look Around You, Might Boosh and Darkplace. Ok I'll admit it's a pretty good line-up (and I'm particularly happy that Darkplace is seeing the light of day again). Yeah, the amount of Aquateen nonsense themed shows are wearing a bit thin as well. But still there's been a lot of live action stuff and I'm kinda worried they'll go the route of MTV where they'll need a new network once they fill the old one with garbage. I love cartoons (despite that I've gotten to old to watch them at least 10 years ago) and Cartoon Network has managed some really good ones while now it feels like they're slowly moving away from that.

At least Adventure Time with Finn and Jake is getting a full show on CN. It's weird and awesome and mathmatical and possibly made while on drugs but the creator declined to comment. And it's got Patrick McHale, creative guy behind Flapjack, so it's gotta be good.
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RHOMBUS!

Pat Robertson..televangelist, sell-out, supporter of third world dictators and leading candidate for anti-Christ...recently commented that the Haitian earthquake happened because they have a pact with the devil. So in the Star Tribune opinion page the devil came to collect his dues.

Being a Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan. If you aren't, after spending enough time around me, you will be.

Jay Leno, as unfunny as he is, hosted the Tonight Show (which I assume was only watched by old people). Eventually NBC had the brilliant idea to move him to an early slot. It failed miserably. But Conan O'Brien got promoted from Late Night to Leno's spot on the Tonight Show.

So now Leno is getting a half hour show while Conan is being bumped back. And I will love to see how they do his previous talk show in a half hour format when monologues usually takes 10 minutes. Not to mention now shows actually only run 21 minutes when you take in consideration commercials. The whole thing is mostly just incredibly disrespectful to Conan. The upside for him though is that he's no longer on during Daily Show and Colbert Report, which has the same demographic overlap. And they're filling Leno's abandoned spot with another show from the over saturated Law and Order series.

In conclusion: to save money by having a talk instead of scripted show they've dragged down ratings, cancel scripted shows thus pissing off writers, ruined lead-ins for affiliated stations, messed up the scheduling and alienated one of their biggest stars. Epic fail.

Haven't played in a while so I decided to unwind with a few games. Put in the disk and waited to start.

New update found? Um, ok. Downloading, 74 minutes left. Totally worth the several hundred dollars. At least the download status is giving me something to laugh about. 74 minutes->47 minutes->53 minutes.
Only bought it to play Disgaea/Metal Gear/Devil May Cry anyway.

StoleTook a daemon quiz for Golden Compass. Quiet loner is...pretty applicable. People have often complained I'm too bottled up, secretive or impossible to get anything out of but I'm just intensely private. If I write a story or make something I prefer to keep it to myself. It's not like I won't share anything about myself or get offended when people ask, I just value personal space. ( But anyway, the quiz thingy ) 

( Started writing about two new religious films (one about Darwin one about...stupid shit) but it got long-winded so I cut it )


Also, from Neil Patrick Harris's twitter:
"Being atop John Barrowman would be a great way to start this decade"

No context needed

Rum eggnog

and Die Hard

To those who doubt it's Christmasiness I quote The Nostalgia Critic: "FUCK YOU, IT'S DIE HARD!". This + Gremlins + Blackadder Christmas Carole = Best holiday films pretty much ever.


Well hope Yahtzee enjoys angry letters about the lack of a review this week. But on the good part, Steam is having a massive game sales over the holidays. So even if something sucks, at least it's cheap (though most of the stuff actually rocks quite hard).

Also, someone please explain to me the rationale of leaving English subtitles off of American DVDs? I mean, they have the option for dubbing in other languages and the subtitles to go with them but lack the very thing for English. Just....what the hell?

This is gonna be one hectic holiday. Setting up for a party, driving to Chicago, remodeling, decorating, still have to do tons of shopping. All the snow that's predicted for this and next week doesn't help. Neither does the fact I'm doing all this during finals. I probably won't have any sleep till the 26th. But I'll admit, deep down inside I kinda love the craziness of it all.

Read a Cracked.com overview (even I'm amazed at how much better the site is over the comic) of the Twilight books and one particular thing made me guffaw, out loud:

I want to be John Malkovich

• Over a period of several weeks, thousands of individuals gain access to sensitive online White House data by successfully guessing Obama's password, "NCC-1701"

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The thing is....I could totally see Obama doing this! Also like the unwanted crashers posing as Pittsburgh Steelers when it turned out they where just the St Louis Rams. Ok, that was a pretty awesome burn.


Well, can't wait for Showcase to reprint the old Suicide Squad issues (a great comic about supervillains given the opportunity to do covert operations in return for a commuted prison sentence) because there can really never be too many espionage stories. I love the backroom deals, politics, double-crossing, bureaucratic power struggle where everyone is trying to screw everyone else and the unfortunate characters caught as pawns between it all that always eventually finds it way into any intelligence service. Of course it doesn't help when the team consists of sociopaths with a Machiavellian control freak in charge.

Reborn, bizarre as always. And Hibari failed on his roll! Should've gone for more defense points. (I...I just plain apologize for that comment)

Getting to school was awesome. Despite only a smattering of snow everything was at a standstill. Both directions on I-94, I-784, even most street traffic failed to move. Of course it HAD to snow on the ONE DAY that I actually had to drive all the way downtown.

But tomorrow is gonna be even BETTER because they're prediction 8-12 inches of snow (that's about 20-30 cm for those who've never been graced by civilization). One class was already canceled because professor lives out in the boonies and he's not gonna drive through that crap. It was actaully pretty fortuitous as we where going to have a lab practical but he changed that to just doing a short report. This means instead of a test I can get an easy and stress free A.

Still debating whether I'm gonna go if they don't close the university but signs and portents look towards "no". Probably just gonna sleep in, make pancakes and watch cartoons. Haven't seen Sword in the Stone for a while.

After looking at all the pictures and videos of Scott Pilgrim vs The World, I am convinced this movie is gonna be awesome. Well that and Edgar Wright looks fun as hell to work with. I mean, ok, it's mostly blogs and not actual movie footage, but still looks great. The characters are instantly recognizable, there's little details everywhere that I didn't even pick up on in the comic and they're even shooting on the actual locations O'Malley wrote into the story. A bit apprehensive about the lack of Kieran Culkin as Wallace in all the stuff shown so far. Or how they'll do video game effects and onscreen text in the middle of a movie about a 20-something hipster who shares a bed with his gay roomate and has to fight a league of ex-boyfriends to the win the girl he loves. Even though the quirky narrative and surreal visuals would be right up the alley of Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Terry Gilliam or Wes Anderson I still have endless faith in Wright.


And in that train of thought, cannot freaking wait till The World's End for him to wrap up the Blood and Ice Cream movies. After the great send up of zombies in Shaun of the Dead and buddy cop shoot'em ups in Hot Fuzz I was just waiting for Wright and Pegg to tackle a science fiction/disaster film.

Yeah I know it's not even filming yet but I'm calling it right now: best trilogy since Evil Dead.

Acquaintance had a birthday so I went with a couple people out on the town. It's pretty much totally against my nature but ended up getting wrangled into it anyway. Went down to the Canning DistrictThird Ward and wandered from bar to bar. There was even a...Cheese Bar. Bar that...served cheese and had a live jazz band. Yep, it's Wisconsin alright.

Of course I was the designated driver which is fine since I'm not big on alcohol anyway. Twas still fun. Though in retrospect a poor decision since I drive just as badly drunk as I do sober. Plus they kept complaining because I swerve between lanes, drive over medians, and cut into traffic. The big babies.


Did see The Men who Stare at Goats. It was an odd but amusing military..or rather anti-military movie. Funny, tragic, lighthearted, occasionally sentimental but mostly enjoyed it because it never succumbed to cynicism. Though lagged at times with the story.