Apparently people appreciated the 3AM, insomnia-induced Photoshopped pictures of my father. Glad to oblige.
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I’ve currently put my stack of “To Read” books on hold … as if they hadn’t been on hold previously, but I digress. They’re on hold. Why? Because I’ve been reading the archives of the past 5 years of FourFour!
I originally found Rich Juzwiak’s blog through Cute Overload because of his cat, Winston, who is the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen/read about … and this coming from a person who owns a weird-as-hell cat. Rich also updates a VH1 blog and does fabulous recaps of episodes of “America’s Next Top Model” and assorted other shows (such as “Being Bobby Brown” which has solidified my fear of Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston.) And as stated, they are fabulous. The simple fact that he likened the power of Anna Wintour to that of the Power of Greyskull has made him one of my favorite bloggers.
Granted, primarily, I’ve been reading archived blog entries about his cats (Winston and the unfairly normal Rudy, whom I feel should have some strange quirk or at least be purple or have two tails or something in order to give Winston some sort of weirdo competition,) but I seem to be drawn into the awesomely funny stuff he’s written about various pop culture happenings.
I am a fan.
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So I picked up copies of “Call of Duty: World at War” and “Viva Pinata: Party Animals” from GameStop.
As far as CoD:WaW goes, I don’t think I’m a fan. At least, not as big a fan as I am of CoD4:MW (“Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare”) anyway. Then again, I’ve gotten further in the CoD:WaW campaign than I have with CoD4:MW simply because the opening cutscene in CoD4:MW is like 10 minutes long and I can’t sit still long enough to deal with it. Despite the fact that I watch enormous amounts of movies and TV shows on my XBox via Netflix and Connect360, I can’t be bothered watching cinematic cut scenes when I’m gaming, damn it.
And I do feel a little guilty, because the graphics in CoD4’s cutscenes are great and I know a group of people spent a lot of time putting them together, but if I’m in the mood for some killing, then I demand instant gratification.
Then there’s “Viva Pinata: Party Animals” (hereby known as VP:PA.) I kind of got bored with the original “Viva Pinata” and I did feel bad for trading it in when my time with it was up, simply because it was a gift from my dad and I tend not to take gifts from my father very lightly. I downloaded the demo for “Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise” and that sucked too.
But what drew me to VP:PA was the mini-game aspect. I like the idea of being able to play stupid little games that don’t get too tedious. I liked the mini-games in the “Pokemon Stadium” games and VP:PA did not disappoint in that aspect. However, one irritating thing is that all of the pinatas in the game speak with some sort of accent which gets increasingly annoying as you progress through your series of mini-games. Also, from reading through the mini-biographies of the characters in the Instruction Booklet (yes, I am THAT girl,) I found that none of the characters are all that likable, while all of them are incredibly flamboyant, so I suppose what they lack in personality, they make up for in retina-melting camp.
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Against my better judgement, I joined Loopt today. And by “against my better judgement” I mean that a co-worker talked me into downloading the Loopt App for my iPhone. At least it’s free. Even if I’ll hardly ever use it.
It’s bad enough that I’m on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter … do I really need yet ANOTHER social networking site to add to the list? I’m not that damn popular to begin with!
Hell, one of my last tweets was about a muscle spasm I had that caused me to punch myself in the face. Then again, I also do quite a bit of tweeting about “Halo 3,” which I’ve been playing quite a bit with friends lately. I’m still not a big fan of the game itself, but I do enjoy the online multiplayer.
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It’s 5AM and I’ve finished my “homework” for the evening – downloading the Legendary Map Pack for “Halo 3,” and now it’s time for bed … or the more likely scenario, read more FourFour until my eyes start bleeding.
