Here is the same video, set to the Benny Hill theme.

At the cinema: The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (yeah, I don't go to the movies often)

At home: The Blues Brothers

Although I did rent Groundhog Day today, and will watch it later. But this song makes me want to watch 50 First Dates. Haha!

I went to Oak Ridge with my mother earlier. She had to go to Wal-Mart to fill out some papers to get an extension on her medical leave (she's been off for the past month now). I decided to look around and see if there was anything I wanted. There wasn't.

Actually, there was. I saw a Starting Lineup figure of Kosuke Fukudome. I came really close to buying it, since the only Cubs stuff I have is a couple of caps. Ah well. I might get it if I ever see another.

After the Wal-Mart excursion, we had lunch at the Super China Buffet. The General Tso's chicken was really good today. I went back twice. By the way, my fortune cookie said "You're almost there." Where, I don't know.

Popped into the used bookstore afterwards. I was in a bit of a hurry because my mother had a doctor's appointment. I picked up copies of Stephen King's "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon" and "From A Buick 8". There was a couple of others I wanted to get, but I passed on them.

Heh... maybe the fortune cookie was talking about how I was almost at the used bookstore. I've been wanting to go back there for a while. Or maybe it's talking about something else. Or maybe I'm reading too much into a fortune cookie.

Anyway, went to the doctor's office. Sat in the waiting room reading "Thinner" while my mother got a check-up. Got out of there after about an hour and a half, stopped into a gas station for something to drink (I got a Pepsi Throwback) and came home.

The End.

I've been in something of a bad mood today. My pet rat Stretch died last night. I had to wait until today to bury him. I don't plan on getting another rat or even a mouse for a while. I just don't feel like getting one.

One of my all-time favourite singers, Michael Jackson, died of a heart attack a couple of days ago. I have been listening to the "Thriller" album and a Jackson 5 CD I got the other day almost non-stop since.

Mark DeRosa comes back to the NL Central in the worst possible way. Cleveland traded him to the fucking Cardinals. I'm not giving up on the Cubs yet, though. But it's going to hard watching my favourite former Cub assrape his former team. Oh yes, there will be assrape. Maybe enough assrape to make Jim Hendry realise how big a fuck-up he is for trading DeRosa away in the first place.

I just finished reading "On Writing" by Stephen King. Very good book.

I think my next book will be "Thinner", also by King. I took it with me to the ballgame earlier, just in case, but didn't get around to reading it.

The Harriman All-Stars had their first baseball game tonight, against Rockwood. Harriman, with my nephew Nicholas taking the mound as pitcher, played a pretty good game, jumping out 5-0 in the top of the first inning. But a few bad at-bats and some bad defensive plays throughout the game cost them as Rockwood managed to come back and win 8-6.

The game wasn't without a few funny moments, though. Mostly had stuff to do with the PA system:

- the Harriman coach walking to homeplate before the game while Are You Ready For This? played. It started playing just as he stepped out of the dugout.
- a Tarzan yell when someone hit a foul ball that landed in the stands
- a Pac-Man death sound when someone hit a foul ball that landed on the roof of the pressbox. I almost dropped my nachos at that one.
- the guy on the loudspeaker occasionally getting player names and numbers wrong.
- a sign in the outfield that said "Hit it here and win a free haircut".
- the game had to be stopped in the bottom of the first inning because a kid wasn't wearing a cup. This ended when a cup was found and coaches from both sides went to the pitcher's mound to hand it off.
- an announcement for someone to move their vehicle because someone was blocked in. That vehicle was my dad's truck.

Harriman has another game tomorrow to face one of two teams that wins the morning game. I'm hoping we face the team we saw play before our game. That game only went one inning and they lost 32-0.

How is it that a South Carolina governor's sex scandal gets front page coverage, yet news regarding the protests in Iran and a bomb killing 61 people in Iraq is all the way on page 6? Seriously, what the fuck?

I feel like writing an angry letter to the newspaper.

Last Hallowe'en. I was so jacked up on candy and caffeine I couldn't sleep, so I stayed up all night watching monster movies.

I might do it again this Hallowe'en. :P

The degu.

I recently purchased Stephen King's "On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft". It's part memoir, part writing lesson from the master of horror himself, and all awesome.

I've only read the memoir part so far, which makes up roughly the first third of the book, where King recounts his childhood, college years, and his big break in writing with the sale of "Carrie", but it's been really interesting reading so far. Heck, the memoir part could be a book by itself.

I can't wait to start on the part about writing, which is mostly why I bought the book. I'm bound to learn a thing or three, although I learned quite a bit from the memoir.

I write and draw a comic strip, so the music I listen to depends on what part of the strip process I'm in.

When I write, I listen to instrumental music, including stuff by Mozart, Bach, and Beethoven. Sometimes even soundtrack stuff by John Williams. Whatever I'm in the mood for, as long as it doesn't have any lyrics. Lyrics tend to distract me more than help.

When I pick up the pencil and Bristol board to draw, I'll put on the lyricy stuff. Again, it's whatever I'm the mood for. And I have plenty of my favourite music from which to choose: Dylan, Marley, GnR, Primus, R.E.M., etc. Sometimes I'll just listen to whatever is on the radio. I do this especially when a non-televised Cubs baseball game is on and the radio reception is good. Rest of the time I just listen to the local modern rock station.

List 10 of your favorite characters from different fandoms, and ask people to spot patterns in your choices, and if they're so inclined, to draw conclusions about you based on the patterns they've spotted.

1. Super Mario Bros.: Luigi
2. M*A*S*H: Lt. Colonel Henry Blake
3. Teen Titans: Beast Boy
4. Sonic: Princess Sally Acorn
5. Tiny Toon Adventures: Furrball
6: Animaniacs: Slappy Squirrel
7: Star Trek: Mr. Spock
8. Chicago Cubs: Ted Lilly
9. Ghostbusters (movie): Dr. Peter Venkman
10. Transformers: Optimus Prime

My huge cock.

The Cubbies beat the Indians today. Woohoo!

On to other Cubs related stuff, Mark DeRosa and Kerry Wood were asked about their 3-day weekend in Chicago.

( Bolded emphasis by me )

I am so unbelievably happy right now. The Cubs came from behind to beat the White Sox!

Seriously, this is so freakin' awesome.

That hug between Theriot and Johnson at the end... awesome. Then the entire team breaks out into one humongous series of manhugs. You'd think they just won the World Series.

Makes me remember how much I love this team.

Going on 2am and I'm not even sleepy. I'd almost consider doing an all-nighter, but I would pay dearly for it tomorrow.

I'll get tired... eventually. Maybe I could go play a video game in the meantime. Or just goof off on the Internet. =P

No.

While there are a few good bits of wisdom to be found in some religious texts, the idea of a person committing to one out of several thousand religions claiming to be the right religion is a bit silly. They can't all be right, but they can all be wrong.

In all honesty, religion really has no place in today's society. Or any society for that matter. There is nothing a religious person can do to benefit society that a non-religious person cannot also do. The way I see it, religion only survives in today's society is because people need something to comfort them in their time of need, though this could also be dealt with through friends, family, therapy, or a fifth of Jack Daniels.

But far be it for me to tell someone what to believe. If religion is your thing, then more power to you. Whatever makes you happy. As for me, I'm content without it.

On the other hand, some of the music and artwork in religion are pretty good. But that's not going to send me running to the pulpit confessing my sins any time soon.

That's a little more than what I had intended to write. Oh well.

My hometown:


The green roofed house you see from 4:35-4:45 is one I lived in during the 80s. There was an arcade just down the road, it was awesome. And the Princess building you see near the end is a movie house I frequented until it was closed down around 2000.

I recently discovered that a BBQ place next to the flea market has Sinistar on one of those multi-game tabletop arcade machine things. And the best part is that it is totally FREE to play. Other games included on this machine are Defenders I & II, Rampage (!), Satan's Hollow, and Wizard of Wor (!!) WIZARD OF WOR! I just couldn't help but be amused about that, since me and pembrokewkorgi were Twittering about Wizard of Wor just a few days ago. Man. I wish I go over to that BBQ place more than just one or two days out of the week. Ah well. It gives me something to look forward to on the weekends. Well, that and hanging out in Needful Things.

Speaking of the flea market, there was a woman in one of the booths who had an old school Nintendo Game Boy for sale. I saw it last week and meant to ask how much they wanted for it (even though I had no money on me at the time). I went back yesterday with the intention of buying that Game Boy, but she had already sold it. Ah well. I bought a copy of Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins as a consolation prize. It plays on my GBA all the same. I really wanted that old school Game Boy because 1) it's retro, and 2) I never owned one. I started out with a GameBoy Pocket, which I got around '97 or '98. I "upgraded" to the GameBoy Advance a year or three later.

And an update on the Ms. Pac-Man front. I beat my personal best again. I'm at 105,320 now. Maybe one of these days I'll be able to challenge the world record. Yeah, and the Cubs will win the World Series. Besides, the Ms. Pac-Man machine I play on at the flea market is one of the fast ones, and I'm not sure if those count. Ah well. Beating my personal record is a lot more rewarding, so... yeah.