November 20, 2009

RIM, seriously, this is kind of bullshit at this point.

Let it be known that I will never buy another Blackberry. I mean, in general, I’m pretty happy with my Blackberry Bold. The keyboard is awesome, and it does all the neat phone internet things that I want it to be able to do. But while on my trip, I realized that the camera is […]

November 19, 2009

I’d like pajamas like that, because I am that lame.

While I was off in the beautiful land of Arkansas, I had to have something to do! So I went to see a movie, that being Where the Wild Things Are, mostly because Fantastic Mr. Fox wasn’t showing yet and, on retrospect, I had heard lame things about Men Who Stare at Goats, and good […]

November 18, 2009

“Adventures” in Arkansas Addendum: Words

The keynote speaker at the conference talked about Shakespeare, and how in his time, speaking was everything. You didn’t see a play, you heard a play. He went on this tangent about how now, we are focused on seeing, as opposed to telling. Seeing is everything (we need to be shown to believe, we need […]

November 17, 2009

“Adventures” in Arkansas, Part 3

I’m back home. Well, okay, by the time you read this, I will have been for a little while, but I’m just now back home when I wrote this. Sometimes time-shifting my bloeg posts gets weird. Anyway, trip over. This morning, I got up, and packed, and prepared to go to the last day of […]

November 16, 2009

“Adventures” in Arkansas, Part 2

The conference happened! Well, the Saturday happened, and it was… okay? I guess? My main problem was that when I think “conference” I think, like… PAX. GenCon. Which this was never going to be. Not at all. So I was expecting a lot of people, or at least a decent number, but instead I mostly […]

November 15, 2009

“Adventures” in Arkansas, Part 1

Hello! I’m writing you from Arkansas, where the hotels don’t believe every room should include a pen and notepad! What a crazy world I am in right now. Getting here, however, didn’t really pose too many problems. For the navigation to the hotel, the TomTom worked like a dream. I had absolutely no issues coming […]

November 14, 2009

Momentary Breakdown (Warning: Depression Ahead)

I guess I should write all this out, just so it’s written out. Just to examine it. We’ll return to normal stupid blogging shortly. Maybe it’ll be about Modern Warfare 2! Nobody is writing about that, right? It’s been awhile, but on last Tuesday, I had a little bit of a breakdown. It wasn’t long, […]

November 13, 2009

CONFERENCE IS GO!

By the time you read this (Well, okay, as long as you’re reading this after, say, 11 AM) I will be on my way to beautiful (I assume) Arkadelphia, Arkansas to present my silly paper at the 2009 Arkansas Conference on Literature, Rhetoric, and Composition. This is like… a professional event and shit. It is […]

November 12, 2009

BEAT-En Theory

I’ve noticed something. I’ve been beating a lot more games since I got Gamefly. I mean, I don’t think the amount of games I’m playing has really increased that much. I bought a TON of games before Gamefly. I still buy quite a few. But suddenly, when I get a game from Gamefly, I beat […]

November 11, 2009

I don’t believe there was a single “Yeehaw.”

Various podding casts mentioned, when it came out, that Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood was actually pretty damn good. I wasn’t sure what to think. Brer liked the first one, but while I bought it for like 10 bucks, I never played it. Essner did, though, and said it was overwhelmingly mediocre. Would the […]