Ramblings of a mad, mad, mad man.

Bands of the week, weeks, months, whatever:

Breaking Benjamin -> I saw them live at Rockfest, back in the years I still went to highschool, and they blew my young, fragile self away. They just released a new album this month. Check them out. You won't regret it.

Slayer -> Not for the faint of heart. Their guitars never stop burning and their lyrics never stop damning. While listening, make sure you're not near anything valuable... you're sure to break it. Oh, and try to avoid taking their albums into churches. I have heard stories of souless miscreants who try to do so... it isn't pretty. They, too, have a new album released just this month.

Slipknot -> Yeah, they dress funny (and they're klowns, which makes them enemies) but they rock pretty damn hard. And hard is good. Its unfortunate that I will one day have to destroy them.

Blindside -> Since the list today seems kind of dark and demonic, I'll point the more moral to a Christian rock band which, when heard live, will move you. Their last album, About a Burning Fire, is amazing stuff. Hopefully their next effort isn't very far off. I miss you guys!

Tom Petty -> When you think the old rockster's got nothing left, he puts out a smashingly good new album.

****EDIT****

Ha ha. Just found out Blindside has released a new album. Woot!

Have you met a Buffalo? I heard they like to roam and stuff.

I read about this a little while ago, but now Black Jack, MO has truly made a mess of things. According to a housing ordinance, Olivia Shelltrack and Fondray Loving can not live in the house they purchased.

They do not fit the definition of family: Olivia and Fondray are not married and have two children together. Without relation by blood or marriage, groups of three or greater are not allowed to live in the neighborhood. Oddly enough, this couple has been together for seventeen years, which, if I'm not mistaken, is much longer than what the average marriage lasts in the country.

Black Jack, MO, you're wasting taxpayers money on a lawsuit you will not win. You're outdated, and, in the words of Brenda Jones[ACLU], "pompous."

Don't die.

Sometimes, I wish I had the artistic talent of a modern artist, and then I slam my head into a wall.

I created a small comic strip. Check it out at munkey tales.

Don't die.

I met the Colossus... I took him down with a toothpick.

Wired News loves a good fight with the ol' NSA.

And I'm laughing with them.

"Help the NSA help you", indeed. I love these guys.

Don't die.

Elite forces. UNITE!

I'm a nerd, and because of this, I would like to point you all to ShadowRun v ShadowRun. The article goes through the many incarnations of ShadowRun in the gaming world. Of course, nothing will ever beat the gooey goodness of being a Shadowrunner in the Genesis port of the game, which is on my list of the Top 10 games of all Friggin' Time (and it should be on yours, too).

Oh, and the new ShadowRun game on XBox 360 sounds like total bunk. If I can't hack into some Corporations computer, steal their most valuable data right from under their noses, and sell it to some sleazeball in a bar, then I don't want to play. The article discusses this fact as well.

Don't die.

Boo hoo hoo, said one child to another.

They don't know how long the oil field will be shut down, says BP America. In fact, they don't even know yet how their pipes became so corroded.

And they want to put more oil fields in Alaska? It doesn't even look like they have the capability to make sure their current pipelines aren't ready to burst.

So, who was it again, that killed the electric car?

Don't die.

Sometimes no news is better than late news.

So, I went AWOL for awhile due to business sending me to Mormon country for two weeks and a vacation sending me to a couple of beaches.

Well, I'm back and I didn't die.

Don't die.