My cat's throwup is the same color as my bedroom carpet

I think the subject pretty much says it all. Lent starts in a couple of days. YIPPEE!

Don't Tell Anyone!

March starts in three days... give or take. March means Lent. Lent is my favorite liturgical season.

I think today I will do something. Last night Bob and I watched War of the Worlds. It was ok. It wasn't a thinking movie to be sure. The red cross just called me. They want my blood.

I think I'm going to take a nap. I'll actually post something tonight... Just you wait!

Important announcement.

Patrick Stewart has something he'd like to say to you.

In other news...

I'm really coming around on the new Guster stuff. I've listened to their new tracks on Myspace. They're pretty good. Too bad I have to wait till June to get their new album, "Ganging up on the Sun". Yeah they're out touring right now... on the coasts. DAMN YOU THE GUSTER!!!!

So I watched Mirror Mask tonight. It was the awesome. Neil Gaiman owns you. He leased you back to yourself when it wrote Ananzi Boyz, but as soon as Books of Magic: THE MOVIE (or whateve project he releases next) comes out, he will go back to owning you and pimping your unworthy ass out to any and all persons he sees fit to pimp you to. Speaking of Neil, I'm re-reading American Gods. Here's some casting choices I would make If I were casting the American Gods mini-series that would be the most amazing thing ever:

Shadow: Nathan Fillion (Seriously. Fillion is amazing)

Odin: William Morgan Sheppard (Who is William Morgan Sheppard you ask. Well I'll tell you. I'll tell you. His performance in Star Trek VI is the most memorable to me, even though he's only in two scenes. He plays the Warden at Rura Pente. Ok, I just IMDBed him. He was also in Gettysburg. Wow! He was in Gargoyles as... get this... ODIN! Shabam. HOLY CRAP!!! He's also the dad of the guy that played Badger on Firefly. This guy has to play Odin.)

Jaquel: Michael Dorn (I don't need to justify this pick)

Mad Sweeny: Tony Curran (He's in 13th Warrior. He's also a badass. He's also in Underworld Evolution)

Ibis: Andre Braugher (Thomas from Glory, but more importantly Frank Pembleton from Homicide)

Mr. Nancy: Robert Guillaume (Seems like a Natural choice. I think he would bring considerable charm to the role)

If I think of more I'll probably let you know, the Internet.

Speed Trials

I used to name my posts after whatever song I was listening to when I wrote it. I'm glad I stopped doing that, but thst song, Speed Trials by Elliott Smith, has been in my head all weekend. I don't think I'm a shallow person... I'm biased though... anyway... Elliott Smith was not an attractive man. That is my opinion.

Sorry... I got distracted by Allmusic.com. It's a good sight to get very general information about a particular artist or group. It says Brian Doherty is still in They Might Be Giants. It's pretty vintage.

Ok. I"m going to sleep.

Valentine's Day

I enjoy holidays. I think they are fun. There are however several fake holidays. Cheif among them is Valentine's Day. I don't know... maybe it isn't completely fake. It's sort of good in theory. But I think it's sort of become too mandatory? People shouldn't get mad or depressed about or becuase of Valentine's Day. Labor Day is also pretty bogus.

I watched the last 4 episodes of Arrested Development today. It's sad. It's like losing a friend. A friend that you only see once a week, and then only half an hour. But a friend that you have vivid and infinitely replayable memories of. And the friend isn't as much lost as it was murdered, murdered by the Fox Broadcasting company, which in a grand bit of irony is that which gave birth to it in the first place. Anyway Arrested Development was amazing. It is amazing. Buy the DVD's. I did. Twice.

Hey, is tomorrow Pancake Day? I don't know. I have heard that it is, but there is little evidence to back it up. Hmmm.

My Crazy Weekend

My weekend was anything but crazy. This weekend was so mundane, so tame that I'm going to sigh, right now.

*Sigh* I need a hug *sigh*
That was my impression of people on instant messengers. I'm pretty sure, at one point in my life, I actually did type that on ICQ. Yup, I too was that lame.

I do actually feel bad for doing jack-nothing this weekend. I'm sort of ridiculous like that. I did watch some movies that I'd seen a bunch of times before. I watched the Negotiator and Star Trek6
Here's what I don't understand. The original cast of Star Trek wasn't that great on TV, but their movies are awesome. The Next Gen cast was great on TV but their movies are kind of weak. WTF?

Next weekend is trivia night. I have to work. Putting trivia night on a friday was a shitty thing to do.

I cleaned half of my room today

The side of the room my computer is on is clean. My bed and everything around it remains untidied.

So the Grammys were last night. They are kind of ridiculous. Green Day won another grammy for an album they put out in 2004 so did U2. I really don't understand the cutoff dates for these things. Kanye West didn't win a Grammy again, which is apparently some sort of travesty. Gwen Stefani was nominated for some of the worst music I've ever heard. I don't really know anything about the grammys. I do know that the bands I like are only allowed in the "Alternative" category. The White Stripes won best Alternative Album, beating out The Arcade Fire, Beck, Death Cab for Cutie and Franz Ferdinand. I wonder what makes Cold Play's newest album a rock album and Franz Ferdinand's new album alternative? Do the bands decide that they want to be a rock band or alternative? I haven't heard Cold Play's new album, but I'm pretty sure "You Could Have it So much Better" rocks the shit out of it. So here's my Grammy acceptance speech.

"I would like to thank everyone who made this award possible... but I'm not going to. No, right now I'm speaking to all of you that tried to stop me from getting this award. All the other nominees and everyone who voted for them, I know who you are. I can see most of you from where I'm standing right now. You motherfuckers better watch your backs. Now that I've got this *hoist up the Grammy* no one, I mean NO ONE can stop me. Your betrayals will not go unpunished. *throw down smoke bomb, escape in the confusion, say hi to Paul McCartney, maybe get his autograph*

In the quiet meantime...

Work has settled down a lot. Twice this week have we been done by 8. This makes me feel even less productive. I need to find another job or something.

Last weekend was fairly productive for me. I purchased and read Ultimates 2, not realizing I was missing out on Ultimates 1 part 2, but I think I caught up fairly well. Ultimates is amazing. At first I was dismissive of it. I thought it was name dropping to be cool or hip, but it's not. It's real. Instead of making up fake movie stars fake presidents, Ultimates is set in the real world. It's a great read. Unfortunately this is happening: http://www.ultimateavengers.com/ It's pretty much assuredly horrible.

I also picked up Tarkio: Omnibus. It's really listenable. Most of the tracks are pretty un-noteworthy, but there are a couple of standouts.

tikibartv.com is pretty cool. Lala is unbelievable. Check it out.

Backlash

I'm thinking about changing the name of the blog to "Matt Essner: Person who talks a lot about sleeping"

I fell asleep somewhere between 4:30 and 5:00 this morning. I woke up about 9:45. Sunday is the only day of the week that I have to get up early (well early-ish)

I played magic last night with Spants and Bucket. I destroyed them utterly and completely. They had nothing that could deal with my onslaught. I brought it every game, with every deck. I am some sort of constructed magic god. At least that's how I remember it. I have to go to mass now.

Hey... come on... Phil?

Winter is back in town...sort of

Well it's finally happened. The people in charge of the weather realized that it was actually February not late March, so it's actually kind of cold outside. I just want some snow before spring starts. I got a sled for christmas. I want to use it.

I got an abusrd amount of sleep last night. I'm not going to tell you how much, but let's just say more than 10 hours but less than 12. I don't know what's wrong with me. I think I might be turning into a layabout. It's almost twelve and I haven't set foot downstairs. I have chores to do. I need to clean rooms of my house.

So it turns out that I owe Southeast Missouri State University some money. A fairly sizeable portion of money, at least to me. Monday I'm going to go talk to them and set up some sort of payment schedule. I don't like owing people money.

The super bowl is tomorrow. I'm thinking about watching it. I kind of like watching football.

That's it for now.

I just posted this on Mathew's Blog

Apparently people are getting warnings in WOW for trying to start Gay Guilds and have same sex marriages. Matthew (getmeoutofthis.net) has a couple of links to articles about it on his blog.

It's difficult for me to get indigent about this kind of stuff because:
1. I'm a Catholic, straight white male that's an American citizen and not a minor, I'm about as unopressed as a person can get.
2. It's a fucking video game.

Anyway I posted this as a comment to one of Matthew's posts talking about the issue.

"I'm sort of torn on this whole issue.
Part of me sympathizes with Blizzard's position to cover their ass. But who are they covering it from? Who are they protecting by enforcing this policy? Newbs?
I also think that people who get married in video games are retarded. Their plight of not being able to fake marry their fake people in a fake world does little to stir any pity. Why can't they just play the fucking game.
Then again, it's not just a game it's sort of a social club. So if people want to socialize with like minded people while they enjoy a common interest why stop them. WOW's player base is fairly diverse. So just because all the people are playing WOW doesn't mean they have common interests. Guilds allow one to have a group of people to play with that caters to their particular play style.
We should also consider the other offensive material that Blizzard doesn't censor. Namely the bludgeoning/hacking/burning/etc of charcters NPC and PC to death that occurs constantly in the game. Why is it that violence is so tolerated whereas homosexuality and what have you is so offensive?
Well I would say because violence is a fairly natural occurrence. Violence, like it or not is part of human/animal nature. It is easy for people to accept violence. They see it all the time. People feel violent impulses. People see violence as a very real part of life.
Gay/Lesbian/Bi/Trans is not, however a fairly natural occurence, not that these things don't occur naturally, but they are not a part of everyone's nature. Some people see homosexuality, bisexuality, transexuality as abberant. Since the majority of the human population is heterosexual, they probably see other methods gender/sexual orientation as foriegn/unnatural. Other orientations aren't real to them therefore, they find it difficult to accept/emphasize with them.
Now I would imagine that this sort of mentality will change as our generation gets older and our parents's generation starts dying off, as we tend to be more accepting of these sort of things than our preceding generations but until then, you can always turn off general chat.
Anyway the point is Blizzard is totally in the wrong here, but since it's their game, they can do whatever the hell they want. I mean, did you read the license agreement? Yeah. Neither did I. It could've said anything. But WOW is still a great game and people who have more active social life's in MMO's then in real life are tards (Unless they live in a lighthouse or something then it's ok)."

Hey , it's not January anymore

I just woke up about 10 minutes ago. I went to bed about 12.30. I have been sleeping a whole lot this week. I don't really know why. I think it's because I might be getting sick, but seriously, I've slept for over 30 hours this week. I need to start doing stuff in the mornings. This is ridiculous.

So I've gotten into constructed magic again. It's lots of fun. I reccommend it.

Ok, I have to go take Ben to work. I'll try to be more dilligent about posting.