Every year my baby brother gets older and older (and older and older).
Every year, I try to do someting a little funny to mark the event, like last year post: Happy Birthday do my baby Brother! After all, what good is a blog if it doesn’t replace buying gifts for loved ones? That’s partly why I started to blog you know, because the cost of gifts was seriously preventing me from meeting my monthly alcohol acquisition goals.
And with a brother like that, who wouldn’t drink alcohol, really?
This post is part of the Year of the Purge : A to Z series. Every other Sunday, I’ll get rid of something starting with the letter A and working my way to the letter Z by the end of December. This week I’m getting rid of M.
This one is an easy one. I’m getting rid of this:
Mafia Wars is the biggest time suck I have ever experienced while being on a computer. Keep in mind that when I say this, I also include my early years on the NES, where I would play 24 hours straight just to maximize my return on the 3$ investment I had made renting the darn game.
The other night, I suddenly realized that I had been sitting in the living room, all by myself for the last hour or so, watching a counter go down five minutes at a time. WTF?
Adding insult to injury, LovelyWife had gone to bed earlier, leaving the TV on TLC. What was playing? Jon and Kate plus Eight. Gah!
But really, I accomplished my super-secret goal in the game, so there’s no challenge anymore. look:
I have to say that it was a really enjoyable book.
I never was a comic book geek, mostly because I never had enough money to buy comic books, but the few comics I could get my hands on I just went through them very quickly. I once read the whole Wolverine series – I think it was 124 issues at the time – in one evening. I am however a Dungeons & Dragons / Role Playing Game Geek, and this book really made me want to start a DC Heroes or Marvel game. Anyways.
The book deals with all the clichés of super heroes, but from a fresh perspective. There’s the super villain, the Cyborg, the ex Black Ops guy, the fairy, the magician, etc. But all those persons seem to “go through the motions” of being super heroes (each in their own way), so the story focuses instead of the internal dialogue of two characters. We get to learn about the rest of the characters through the eyes of those two.
The style was confusing at first, and it got slightly better as the book progressed. I was getting used to the style I guess. It was like when i saw Cyrano for the first time, and that it took a good 20 minutes just to understand what the characters were saying. But even in the last chapters, I sometimes had to go back a few paragraphs to figure out what had happened, and how the logical sequence of event took place. for example, I still don’t understand the conclusion of the fight between Dr. Impossible and Mister Mystic. And I must have read that part 3-4 times.
Dave2 had warned me that the end was a little anti-climatic, so I kept that in mind as I was turning the last few pages, and yes: Dave2 was right. It’s a little anti-climatic, but I saw that more as an after effect of setting up the stage for future books. I could see the same story told through the eyes of two other characters, and then two others, and so on. Or even the second part of this story. Anyways, to misquote a famous person: This book is not about the destination, it’s about the journey.
So there you have it. Decent book, easy read, entertaining. I’d give it 4 out of 5 masks and gloves.
Whenever LovelyWife leaves for her “business trips”, we always go to the same routine.
She’ll start by asking me if I’ll be all right taking care of the Zadorables by myself.
I always say I will.
She always asks if I would like FMIL to come over while she’s away on her “business trip”.
I always say that I would love FMIL – because FMIL is awesome, and hello: Homemade Cheesecake? Who wouldn’t want that! – to come over, but that I can perfectly manage the household and the Zadorables while she’s away on her “business trip”.
She’ll then phone FMIL to let her know that I’ll be all by myself from this day to that day, and that I might possibly call her if I forget how to use the stove of lose one of the kid’s legs.
But rest assured that never happened.
Anyways, today LovelyWife is flying out for a week-long “business trip” in North Carolina. That means I’ll be a single dad for the next 7 days.
I like it when this happens, but the Zadorables? They LOVE IT.
They’ve already made plans for the week, and of course they started with this 7 day menu:
Of course, this is not at all what a LovelyWife menu would look like.
Then again, she’s not here for the next seven day, so I’m running the show.
Clearly, mine is better because we never go to a restaurant, right? 100% home cooked meals! 😉
I had 12 of you wanting a mix tape as per the Shiny LeSombre Meme, and so I took out my trusty D12 and randomly selected Becky! But you can’t have a CD without a CD cover, right?
Here’s how it goes. You are about to have your own band’s CD cover. Follow these directions to the letter. It’s fun and requires no thought at all. Go to……
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first article title on the page is the name of your band. I got “Mosaic Authorship“.
2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album. I got “Become who you are.” from the quote “Trade your secrets and become who you are.” from Frank Warren, Post Secret, 09-06-08.
Before we start: Don’t forget that I’ll be putting together an awesome mix tape for you. Just go to the Shiny Lesombre Meme, and leave a comment. I’ll draw a winner next Monday.
Yesterday at night, Sarcastica had her very own Lil’Castica. She Tweeted the whole time, and live blogged the whole thing. You can see her video on YouTube. and the first picture here.
I’m kidding. I hope I’m kidding. 😉
At 21:24, KarenSugarpants Tweeted: @sarcastica’s baby Nolan is BORN! 5 pounds, 11 ounces. Baby and Mama are doing fine! YAY!
Congratulations to the new family!
As usual, my only valid parenting advice is:
Disregard all parenting advice you receive.
You should probably print and frame that.
Oh, and if you’re new around here, I originally posted this when my friends Peter and Natasha had their baby, Kole. It still applies. 😉
The amazing thing with guys is that, unlike most woman, we can show up at a party wearing the exact same dress and still become best friends forever.
Errr.
Well the point is that ever once in a while, some people will tell me that I’m exactly like their cousin – trust me I get that a lot – or that I should really meet this guy who’s as funny as I am, looks like me, talks like me and so on.
And honestly, I can picture myself becoming friend with a guy like me, because as we all know I am awesome. Spread the word.
So last Friday, I was made funny by association with none other than the great American Mike: Chinese Takeout*. I think it’s that American Coz of mine, Amber who Tweeted that during #FollowFriday.
Now the amazing thing with bloggers is that, unlike other people, when something piques our interest, we feel compelled to write about it – I know I do and I’m pretty sure you do too, hence I feel okay using we here – and I started this post about how it idn’t make sense to have a Shiny Stakeout. I know, nice play on words, right?
I first came in contact with Shiny’s blog through a comment made by Avitable, about his blog’s name. I got curious, and quickly stole a peak between doing the other twenty-seven things I was doing at the time.
I’m also an awesome multi-tasker. Ask around you’ll see.
Anyways, since I was doing do many things at the time, I promptly forgot to add the man to my feed reader, and life went on. But then came Plagiarism week 2009. I actually got wind of the thing mid week, and my first reaction was:
“That fucker is stealing my idea!”
Well, I’m kidding here, but not completely. I was planning to parody some bloggers at that point, because I felt I was running out of content and figured that I could start a web comic à laXKCD, or maybe make some vlogs reviewing sex toys (something that I thought Avitable could do, and he did it since). I have since then re-purposed those ideas into the guest posts on my own blog, which you saw the first installment here a couple of weeks ago, and the second yesterday with the infamous Avitable does Ottawa post. At this point, I have about seven “Guests posts posted on my own blog” in the works.
And by the way, if you ever wonder how I write – pretentious much am I? – now you know. At any given time I have between twenty and thirty “blog ideas” in my head, on paper, in a text file on my computer or even as drafts on the blog.
Wow, this post is going everywhere and nowhere isn’t it?
So, here’s the thing.
I like Shiny’s blog. I think Shiny is a hilarious blogger. I’ve never met him, but I have the feeling that we’d have a good time if we ever get to be in the same room at the same time. When I read about people comparing us, I thought “Oh crap, I need to up my game now!”. Then I read on his blog that he didn’t want to become the redundant Mike, and that he thought that I offered quality content, I was floored.
Consider this an official response to your open declaration, Mr. Shiny: I’m happy to see that there’s at least one Mike in the States who’s even more awesome then I am. I really think every country should experience the awesomeness of a Mike, and I’m confident that you’re doing a fine job for all the States. And since we all know that everything is bigger and better in the States…
And just because it wouldn’ t be a fitting tribute to the great Shiny without some excerpt of a Quebec TV series about people working in a bar, I leave you with Minuit, le soir. Best TV series to come out of Quebec. Sorry, no Norm.
And one last thing:
Start shopping!
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* I am aware that he spells the name of his blog differently. Out of respect for my country, however, I have decided to use the traditional Canadian spelling.**
** Yes, I did lift this straight out of Shiny’s blog. Admit it’s much better than my Stakeout joke.
This is my new schtick. I pretend people asked me to guest post on their blog, and I do it here. Hope you like it. 😉
Everything is bigger in the States
Hi! LeSombre guest-posting for Avitable here.
When Avitable asked me to guest post for him, I really didn’t know what to do. I mean how can you do justice to a man who posted numerous pictures of his balls, his ass and even his salami on-line? I can’t really do dolphin porn, it’s been outlawed in Canada after the Trudeau administration. Dancing is also out of the question, since in Canada dancing and Rock and Roll are illegal. In fact, it is Ariel’s dad, a Bible-thumping minister, who is responsible for keeping Canada dance-free. When I was in high school, my classmates and I wanted to do away with this ordinance, especially since the senior prom was around the corner, but only I had the courage to initiate a battle. My pent-up frustrations caused a confrontation with Rev. Shaw Moore and the Parliament as I took on the establishment struggling to abolish the outmoded ban and revitalize the spirit of the repressed Canadians.
As you know, Footloose was heavily inspired by my high school years. Kevin Bacon is a spitting image of yours truly. Well the bacon part anyways.
Without further ado, I give you a classic Avitable piece of art, with a Canadian twist.
Anyways.
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