we are fighting dreamers!

dattebayo!

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:06:33 GMT

I've watched all 220 episodes of [i]Naruto[/i]. (This soaring sense of accomplishment is unduly magnified by how sucky other areas of one's exsistence have been lately, so roll with me or ignore this.) What's more, I wrote a recap on all of them, which are up at RPG.net and will be thrown up once-a-day on the Recap Avalanche.

You know what? All things considered, it's not a bad little show. Hinata Hyuga is love.

short and sweet.

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 02:23:12 GMT

Hello, 2009. Play nice.

merry christmas!

Thu, 25 Dec 2008 05:29:59 GMT

Merry Christmas to everybody from the future, or possibly the past. I leave you with the holiday song closest to my heart. You keep Christmas in your way and I'll keep Christmas in mine.

more christmas music!

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:07:23 GMT

This I'd heard of before.

christmas songs!

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:09:51 GMT

How on earth didn't I know about this song before?

tidying up.

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:35:57 GMT

Deactivated my Facebook and Myspace accounts. It was telling that, on Facebook, they gave me a list of three people who OH NOES WILL NOT BE ABLE TO KEEP IN TOUCH WITH ME!!! I'm seeing them all tomorrow. I think I'm good.

public service announcement.

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:11:52 GMT

I now have a real blog, the Recap Avalanche. It's an anime episode recap a day, secret agent, trip to the moon type thing. Or not.

at the end of the day

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:24:02 GMT

I just worked 11 hours, and watched a sand demon fight a giant toad. I'm in a weird place right now.

And it is awesome.

Writer's Block: Eat, Drink, Be Merry

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:00:02 GMT

Thanksgiving is almost here in the U.S., heralding the start of the holiday season and the first of many meals where you might be confronted with a traditional dish that you happen to find disgusting. What holiday food do you hate to see on the table?

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Raisin and carrot salad. GEH. I don't like it at the best of the times, but if it slithers its way to the Thanksgiving table, you can count me out. Also, orange generally clashes with the rest of the spread, so it's a taste issue of two kinds.

the rewards of the pop culture.

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:46:46 GMT

Today, I received this for my Naruto thread.

Also a picture of an attractive female cosplaying as one of the show's girl ninjas. Double-word score!

we are fighting dreamers!

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:10:50 GMT

On RPG.net I posted a recap thread on Naruto, wherein I was going to watch every episode I could get my hands on legally and post my thoughts and suchlike about it. I just finished episode 40, and people've looked at it more than three thousand times. That's more than three hundred tens! I find this amazing.

It's here. I like the show. Also, um, spoilers.

CHIKARA awesomeness.

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:53:44 GMT

A pharaoh, a snake, and their friends cuttin' a rug to Jungle Boogie.

ramble.

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:30:28 GMT

Once upon a time, I and another fellow did a netbook on the southeast for a game called Nightbane that you probably haven't heard of. It was entitled Shadows of the South, and focused on Atlanta and New Orleans, or the only southern cities I thought were interesting enough to talk about. It was not very well done, in your traditional Earth sense, though many people enjoyed it at the time and that's as gratifying as it always is. I like to think it possessed a ragged charm and enthusiasm, and hopefully covered up the fact I was cribbing like mad from the newly-discovered (then) books of White Wolf and the first Gabriel Knight computer game.

I also know for a fact I was in love with putting musical quotes at the beginning of each chapter.

The dude who I did it with was a great guy, and as with the hallmark of all good partnerships, we each thought the other did the best stuff. I made a character who was a cross between Robert E. Lee and Satan, he did a vigilante group based off the Blues Brothers. He wins. I stumbled across something he's done recently, and I'm glad he's doing well. Chad was and I suspect still is, a Good Guy.

This rant was done because I did a search on the netbook itself, and people still remembered. Man.

Now I recap Naruto episodes on RPG.net. It's strangely fufilling.

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:14:14 GMT

I spent All Hallow's Eve watching Ghostbusters and handing out fun-sized versions of candy to children bedecked in the latest of pop culture. I saw many a Hannah Montana and Clone Trooper.

It was suprisingly satisifying.

i forgot to mention.

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:52:23 GMT

Captain America #43, out last week, finally shattered my carefully nutured, nigh-on three decades' worth of my suspension of disbelief. Just broke mine over its knee, like I was a caped crusader and it was a Santa Priscan ex-con. (Those of you who got that... ha, ha! Nerd.)

Anyway, it finds new Captain America Bucky doing something I believe we all would find implausible. Just ridiculous.

He leaves behind the Black Widow, clad only in a bedsheet and a smirk, to fight a French-speaking master of savate.*

Congratulations, Mr. Brubaker. I can never read another comic again. Save maybe Usagi Yojimbo, because that be da bomb. Er. Yo.

*Savate is the French art of foot-boxing! But you knew that.

rest in peace, Dolemite.

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:38:18 GMT

We mourn the passing of Rudy Ray Moore. I can't think of a more fitting epitaph than he was the man who killed Monday, whooped Tuesday and put Wednesday in the hospital, then called up Thursday to tell Friday not to bury Saturday on Sunday.

Holler.

to nobody's great suprise.

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:19:01 GMT

tricking and/or treating.

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:12:10 GMT

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
dawgstar goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Cthulhu.
corvidae9 gives you 4 green blueberry-flavoured nuggets.
hateradebottler tricks you! You lose 1 pieces of candy!
jeffjordan1978 gives you 1 light orange vanilla-flavoured gummy bats.
knitmeapony tricks you! You get a 3.5-inch floppy disc.
lelapindedoom gives you 6 dark blue coffee-flavoured jawbreakers.
lunar_endeavor gives you 2 red lime-flavoured jawbreakers.
magdellena tricks you! You lose 1 pieces of candy!
nestdweller gives you 17 white banana-flavoured jawbreakers.
sadsadmonkey gives you 18 light blue licorice-flavoured jawbreakers.
westonwyse gives you 15 teal grapefruit-flavoured gummy worms.
dawgstar ends up with 61 pieces of candy, and a 3.5-inch floppy disc.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

knitmeapony probably would give me a floppy disk.

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:20:43 GMT

So Terminator's ratings Monday were declared 'armageddon-like.' Fortunately, this being a show on Fox, I considered it cancelled a long time ago. Before it started, in fact. Also, I can start watching Chuck again.

By the way, would you like to go ahead and sign a petition to save Dollhouse before it premieres?

meme lemming-er

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:19:08 GMT

If you see this, post a quote from Star Trek in your journal.

"All I ask for is a tall ship, and some contraband to fill it with".
-Quark, Little Green Men

Yes! I rule!

Your result for The Classic Leading Man Test...

Humphrey Bogart

You're the original man of honor, rough and tough but willing to stick your neck out when you need to, despite what you might say to the contrary. You're a complex character full of spit and vinegar, but with a soft heart and a tender streak that you try to hide. There's usually a complicated dame in the picture, someone who sees the real you behind all the tough talk and can dish it out as well as you can. You're not easy to get next to, but when you find the right partner, you're caring and loyal to a fault. A big fault. But you take it on the chin and move on, nursing your pain inside and maintaining your armor...until the next dame walks in. Or possibly the same dame, and of all the gin joints in all the world, it had to be yours. Co-stars include Ingrid Bergman and Lauren Bacall, hot chicks with problems.

Find out what kind of classic dame you'd make by taking the
Classic Dames Test.

Take The Classic Leading Man Test at HelloQuizzy

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:27:59 GMT

Take a picture of yourself right now. Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair...just take a picture. Post that picture with NO editing. Post these instructions with your picture.

I apologize. I needed a stress reliever.

i think i did this one before.

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:26:48 GMT

Your result for The Director Who Films Your Life Test...

Kevin Smith

Kevin will take your slacker life and turn it into the cult classic it deserves to be --- like Mallrats (just kidding). If you can handle the menacing presence of Jay and Silent Bob all throughout your film, then Kevin is willing to oblige. Basically, he can take the lives of people who don't have much of a life and make it entertaining, so you're in good hands. Go watch your copy of Clerks, now.

Take The Director Who Films Your Life Test at HelloQuizzy

Julius Carry III: March 12, 1952 - August 19, 2008

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:56:59 GMT

Rest in peace, Lord Bowler.

advice column.

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:09:18 GMT

Would you like a Matt Pro Tip? Of course you would!

Generally, when you desire to speak sotto voice, you are trying to speak just audibly to hear yourself. I think. The purpose is defeated if you just turn your head like you're suddenly distracted or possibly embarrassed and talk only a little bit softer but still clearly audible enough to be heard by all around you.

And this man is a teacher.

Much about the lack of quality in our public schooling becomes readily apparent.

He wanted to know if a graphic novel we had in stock. I said so no, it's out of print. So he turns and mumbles that, "Well, it is a used comic store so that doesn't mean anything." And he was correct. But since I didn't immediately follow up with, "But we have a used copy in the bins" it means everything you fish-faced enemy of the people! I almost beat him to death with the ridiculous sunglasses he was wearing at 6:50 in the evening.

As a sidenote, pick which professional wrestling move Matt will use when he finally snaps on a hapless customer. Implant DDT? Rock Bottom? Jawbreaker lariat? You make the call! The possibilities are limited only by your imagination.

This post hereby replaces a Maudlin Matt Money Muttering post. Congratulations!

BWHAHAHA.

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:44:06 GMT

So MySpace amuses one still. I got one of the famous spam messages, and it went on and on about how cute my user ID picture is. Why is this funny, you query? Well, for one, I don't have any sort of digital camera I had to use another picture and two...

...my picture is of Mechagodzilla.

Maybe I do need to meet this girl.