Month: November 2012

Black Friday has been ruined this year

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I’m one of those weirdoes that in spite of whatever I may say, occasionally indulge in the insanity known as Black Friday.  Throughout the year, the closer it gets to November and Thanksgiving, I assess things that I either need, want, or both.  Over the last few years, in participating in Black Friday deal-seeking, I have come out with a variety of items, such as an Xbox, a Shop-Vac for my garage, and the stereo system in my bedroom, among various other things.

Whenever I succeed at getting the rare items and the things that I want, I am filled with an overwhelming sense of accomplishment, victory and smugness.  In the instances that I have failed to get the things that I want, I am upset, disappointed, and swear to never participate in Black Fridays ever again.  But typically, I do.

This year is kind of different, though.  I don’t have a very extensive list of things that I think I want or need; sure there are a few things, but nothing extravagant really, and nothing that seems to be an insanity doorbuster by any means.  I have my televisions, I have an Xbox, I have my gadgets; among the things that usually cause people to trample each other or shoot each other in parking lots, I’ve already got.

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Axing Questions

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There was a guy I knew when I lived up in Virginia.  He was the first guy I ever met that routinely used the phrase “axe” when he was obviously trying to say “ask.” And I’d routinely call him out on it, and blurt out “AXE” whenever he said it.  Or whenever I’d have a query for him, I’d say, “let me AXE you something,” putting an excessive amount of emphasis on the axe part.  Although if you saw the guy, you’d think black guy, but in truth, he was from the Virgin Islands, if that makes any difference.

Anyway for a while, the epidemic of people using the word axe kind of vanished from my radar.  Either I wasn’t noticing it around me, or I just wasn’t around enough inquiring people to put myself in scenarios where questions were to be axed.  But at least over the span of the last few years, I have noticed that people have been using the word “axe” in place of “ask” a lot more frequently, and I can’t help but notice that they’re all black.

So naturally, my inquiring assumption is that the verb “ask” has an Ebonic counterpart in the word “axe.”  Despite the fact that the word “axe” is a noun, meaning a well known tool and/or weapon.

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Thoughts on Silent Hill: Revelations

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The chick who played Heather was really cute, and totally in my wheelhouse.  Even if she looks like she’s half my age.

But the movie itself sucked, and it wasn’t a surprise, and I am disappointed that it cost me $16 to see in 3D.

The end.

Okay, now that the thoughts on Silent Hill: Revelations are over, don’t click the jump unless you want to hear spoilers; not that they’re really “spoilers-“spoilers, but if you’re sensitive to being told something that happens before you find out, don’t read on.

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R.I.P. Springfield Mall, 2012

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Around this time last year, I went to Springfield Mall, and took a stroll down memory lane. It wasn’t much of a stroll, because 70% of the mall was closed, and the whole place was this cemetery of drywall monuments, where all the stores were like tombs and mausoleums of what was once a bustling place of commerce and social gathering. But at least back in 2011, it was still a place where I could actually go inside, walk around, and reminisce about older times.

The photo above is Springfield Mall as of November 2012.

Springfield Mall, for all intents and purposes, is dead.

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Hi brog, I’ve been busy lately

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It’s not that I’m neglecting my brog, but the truth of the matter is that I actually kind of have been busy this month.  A couple things have happened that had necessitated some travel, a couple things have happened that have consumed a good deal of my personal time, and lastly I’m once again taking part in National Novel Writing Month, which is pretty much taking up the rest of everything else.  The quest to put down 50,000 words in a 30-day span, which I sometimes wonder why I do other than personal torment.

As of now, I’m in great shape, well ahead of the pace, and currently sitting at around 27,500+ words.  I would never share this putrid story with anyone else, but if I could describe it in a brief synopsis, think SyFy channel, but way worse better.  I’m actually wondering if I could sell this to SyFy after I finish as a potential screenplay.

I’ll admit that ever since I have gotten on the Facebook wagon, that I haven’t been writing as much on my brog either.  Granted, most of my October was spent on two long vacations, and this has been a month of literary writing abandon, but it’s not like I don’t have any opportunity to brog anymore, either.  Sometimes I find myself wondering if I should write something on my brog, in 300 words or more, or if I should dumb it down to a succinct statement and share it on Facebook instead.  Ultimately, my brog will always mean more to me than Facebook will, but I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve written things as Facebook status updates that I might have turned into more elaborate posts here.

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Thoughts on Girl Meets World

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I don’t hide the fact that I was… am a fan of the old sitcom, Boy Meets World.  Recently, there’s been news circulating that a spin-off show is being created “cleverly” named Girl Meets World.  With the basic premise is that it’s going to be the same show pretty much all over again, except instead of the protagonist of the showing being Corey Matthews, it’s going to be a girl.

But get this, not just any girl – it’s going to be Riley Matthews, the purported daughter of Corey and Topanga, who got married at the tail end of the Boy Meets World, and have clearly gotten busy since the show ended.  I don’t really know quite how to feel about this.

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I had no idea that this ever happened

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I can comfortably say that I watched a lot of The Wonder Years when I was younger. I thought I pretty much saw every single episode. Either I really hadn’t, I really don’t remember everything as vividly as I thought I did, or maybe both.

Seeing Kevin Arnold get cockblocked or fuck up with girls is nothing out of the ordinary throughout the entire course of the show, but there’s absolutely no coming back from this one.

Not only does Kevin Arnold get cockblocked, but he gets cockblocked by none other than fucking Zack Morris. I had no idea that Mark-Paul Gosselar ever had an appearance in The Wonder Years. And to no surprise, Zack Morris absolutely dominates in his brief cameo in The Wonder Years. Not only does he look like he’s six years older then Kevin Arnold, but he just straight nuclear cockblocks Kevin Arnold, right in front of him. That’s some gutsy shit right there.

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