Cameron T I don’t know. I’m getting some ideas of how an SNT writing contest could work but I think I want to actually hold this idea off for a while so I can think it through. Like, for in the summmer.
Nes games, Mega Man 2, Tecmo Super Bowl and Hello Kitty World.
Ghosted by dohopoki @ 02/25/2007 12:23 AM EST
I know, I know. It’s easy to blame the toddler for my lack of reading lately but…I blame the toddler.
I did just finish LIKE A HURRICANE a book about the Indian movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee 1973 so I am not a complete slacker.
Ghosted by The Manimal @ 02/25/2007 12:24 AM EST
usally I go with summer(and I still will if I get a new job) but at work its terribly hot during the summer. Then again it makes a dip in the river and a cold beer all that more inviting.
Ghosted by mrjayberry @ 02/25/2007 12:24 AM EST
So I was at my local mall when I felt I had to move my bowels. Anyway, when I finished I took one quick look, you know, to see what I made. Thats when I noticed that I had passed an entire Red Bean. Now I had passed corn kernels in the past, say after eating a KFC flavor bowl, but a red bean? Was this a magic bean I wondered. But since I was not at home I could not examine it or even pluck it and plant it. No, all I could do would be to flush it away to poo poo land. It was a sad day.
Ghosted by I'd Still Tap Britney Spears @ 02/25/2007 12:34 AM EST
To cover the major topics:
It’s hard to choose October or Summer, mainly because it’s been in the 70’s here all week But I alsways liked October; the whole fall vide is awesome….
My three top NES games: TMNT: The Arcade Game, Super Mario 3, and Blaster Master
NES games: The Legend of Zelda, River City Ransom, Double Dragon II.
Ghosted by P.S. @ 02/25/2007 12:41 AM EST
The opening SNL sketch was HILARIOUS. The monologe is also great.
Also, don’t know if anyone is aware of this, but there is a new flavor of Diet Pepsi Jazz called Caramel Cream. It’s actually pretty good compared to the other two Jazz’s and tastes actually like it sounds.
Ghosted by JLAJRC @ 02/25/2007 12:42 AM EST
I change Hello Kitty World to River City Ransom, damn I’m stupid.
Ghosted by dohopoki @ 02/25/2007 12:45 AM EST
i’m going to go with october because my birth day is in that month and there is a minimal chance of a drive by icing which is going on right now outside my window. tommorow everything is going to be covered in a glittery sheen from hell. welcome to ohio.
Ghosted by danny @ 02/25/2007 12:51 AM EST
I’ll take the last week of summer, for 1000 Alex.
“another lonely seaside town
where the seasons closed it down.
but if you close your eyes
you can almost hear the sounds of crowds gone by”
That’s right, I went there.
I’ll take May 7, 2005, FTW.
I went there AGAIN!
Ghosted by K- assumes this only makes sense to him. @ 02/25/2007 12:52 AM EST
ok so this peeping tom skit is totally proving that snl uses a laugh track
Ghosted by danny @ 02/25/2007 1:02 AM EST
I’m all for spring. Not too hot, not too cold, and I can start my garden!
Ghosted by Moony @ 02/25/2007 1:08 AM EST
Am I the only one not watching SNL? I’m listening to End is Forever, since I went and referenced it. I still haven’t really listened to Welcome the Night.
I’m too enwrapped in Infinity on High, which is highly recommended, btw.
Ghosted by K- @ 02/25/2007 1:11 AM EST
I’m not watching SNL, because I never ever watch SNL. I don’t know how any of you can sit through it for more than 2 minutes.
Ghosted by dohopoki @ 02/25/2007 1:19 AM EST
The weather here in SoCal was really nice today. It was comfortable enough to go out in shorts if you wanted to, without getting too hot (it was 80 here last week). As to the topic of indie movies and actors, I must respectfully decline to answer the question, as I myself am not really a fan of independent film, especially as it is so difficult to define an “independent” movie. BTW, I am currently listening to “King Of Suede” by Weird Al Yankovic.
Ghosted by Thomas @ 02/25/2007 1:27 AM EST
You’re not, K-. I don’t have broadcast TV, so I’m listening to NPR…oh wait, forgot Coast to Coast is on…
Ghosted by Moony @ 02/25/2007 1:30 AM EST
I have two things to say.
#1, I totally got my photo taken with Gary Coleman.
As to the comments about “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”, however confusing and difficult to follow the book and movie may be to follow, you must also consider that the movie was directed by Terry Gilliam, whose movies have a reputation of being rather obtuse. This is coming from someone who’s seen Gilliam’s “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen”. Wow, that was weird.
Ghosted by Thomas @ 02/25/2007 1:34 AM EST
I constantly have that same debate in my mind.
I love the summertime feelings of summer
I love the halloween and beginning of the holiday season feelings of october.
Ghosted by Anonymous @ 02/25/2007 1:39 AM EST
Is that a Walmart employee badge Gary Coleman is wearing?
Ghosted by dohopoki @ 02/25/2007 2:07 AM EST
Might as well be summer (best part of living on the greater puget sound), because October is not far behind!
NES games: Bubble Bobble, Kung Fu, Super Mario Bros. 3
Ghosted by Timbo @ 02/25/2007 2:18 AM EST
Woo! It looks like I got here in time for SNT!
As for the survey…I choose October. I despise summertime because it’s so disgusting and miserable where I live—maybe I’d like it more if I were living somewhere that has cooler summers. October is my favorite month of the year, though it has become kind of gross and hot in recent years thanks to stupid global warming. But if I had a choice, I’d pick January. I’m feeling nostalgic for January 2004, for personal reasons.
I can’t pick a favorite indie movie. Don’t have Netflix, and the theaters and video stores in my area suck.
Ghosted by Astro Zombie @ 02/25/2007 2:25 AM EST
1. Given that my heater is currently broken and I’m wearing like, three shirts and a cardigan, I’ll take summer.
2. Does Priscilla, Queen of the Desert count as an indie film?
3. My favorite NES games were Super Mario/Duck Hunt, Q-Bert, and Spy vs. Spy. I chose those because when we had an NES I was three years old and those were the only games we had.
Summer or fall….umm….I can’t decide. I like shorts, but I have no air conditioning. I like new episodes on television, but I hate the shorter sun time.
hmmm…with close to a foot of snow coming down tonight i have to say summer looks good about now.
Greatest indie film? I have to go with Clerks. I do share the love of Garden State that some on here have, though.
Manimal – North and South rules. As a 12 year old history buff that was my crack. (That and the North and South mini-series.) Top three NES, though, I’d have to say
1. Zelda
2. Tecmo Super Bowl
3. Tetris
Ghosted by Yelnick McWawa @ 02/25/2007 3:28 AM EST
Damn, I missed SNL tonight! Rainn Wilson was on! I was at another Mixer though, some good times, screwing with pledges, etc.
It’ll be on again…I hope…
I personally like late spring, like April or May. Not too hot, not too cold, but juuuuuuuust riiiiiiight.
Indie…Hmm. I’ll take Clerks, too.
I really want to see the Reno 911! movie, but work and other crap have been preventing me from going!
There’s a new Ben & Jerry’s ice cream titled Stephen Colbert’s Americone Dream. It should be awesome.
NEW TOPIC! Celebs you met. I told my pledges to remember this one, here are who I’ve met:
Lewis Black
Gallagher
David Hyde Pierce
Josh Blue
Biz Markie
I dunno, every season has up points. I do prefer winter to summer, though. Summer is hot and nasty. Unless you’re swimming. In the winter you can put more things on or cuddle up with someone if you are cold, but in the summer you can only take so much off before you are naked and still hot. Bleh to summer.
Ghosted by X @ 02/25/2007 4:09 AM EST
There’s summer school and summer jobs from late May to early August, the weather’s hot, all the mosquitoes are revived and pissed, the smell of bug spray permeates the air, TV is all reruns, movies are at their corniest, and people are general ticking time bombs because of the heat. But it sure beats the full on work time.
Ghosted by Ben @ 02/25/2007 4:34 AM EST
Definitely summer. Longer days, go to the lake, take the shirt off, party outside, watch beautiful young women blossom. These are just a few of the many reasons why summer is the best time of the year. October is cool because it’s college football season and you get to see beautiful young women blossom on campus, but the positives of summer outweigh those of fall. Much props to Matt for the blogs about old school soda, 80’s commercials, and McDonald’s.
Ghosted by Josh Ednoff @ 02/25/2007 11:46 AM EST
New Survey, what was your favorite survey in this SNT?
Ghosted by dohopoki @ 02/25/2007 12:21 PM EST
1.Well I missed SNT, but that’s cause I was feeling like crap. I’ll start off by saying Happy Birthday to Cameron T. today! And you all know you can wish me a Happy Birthday tomorrow! I did watch the beginning of SNL for the first time in a very very long time, but b/c I am out of the loop completely I turned it off b/c I didn’t who the band or the guest was!
2.I choose summer b/c I don’t care how hot it is, or hot I am I would rather be that way than cold!
3.Indie film, I haven’t seen many I don’t think, but I do enjoy me some Bubba Ho-Tepp
4.As for my favorite NES games Dr. Mario, Zelda and Mario 3!
“New Survey, what was your favorite survey in this SNT?”
Well, the NES one gave me another excuse to type the words Final Fantasy, the indie one let me wax about Cusack, and the season and timetravel ones brought out the emo in me.
I can’t decide, they all suit me so well *sniff*
Ghosted by K- @ 02/25/2007 12:51 PM EST
My Favorite Indie Films:
The Aristocrats
Both Clerks movies
Supersize Me
Bubba Ho-Tep
Napolean Dynamite
Donnie Darko
Pan’s Labrynth
Big Fat Greek Wedding
Secretary
Crash
Ghosted by JLAJRC @ 02/25/2007 2:09 PM EST
I just watched Halloween II. October.
Ghosted by Me @ 02/25/2007 2:39 PM EST
1. I like the seasonal survey.
2. Celebrities: Dane Cook, Penn and Teller, the cast of Reno 911! (Carlos Alazraqui, Ben Garant, Kerri Kenney, Thomas Lennon, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Niecy Nash and Cedric Yarbrough), Joel McHale from The Soup, Courtney Love and Danny Bonaduce if being in the same room counts, and most of the cast of Carnivale (Michael J. Anderson, Adrienne Barbeau, Clea DuVall, Carla Gallo, Nick Stahl, Tim DeKay, Diane Salinger and of course Clancy Motherfucking Brown).
3. Happy Birthday Cameron and IHAQ!
4. Gary Coleman!!!!
5. Bubble Bobble, Kirby’s Adventure, Dr. Mario
Las Vegas summers blow too. Its already in the high sixties here. i know boo hoo for me. Spring is PERFECT here. But then summer hits and people die, literally.
Ghosted by citygirl @ 02/25/2007 5:34 PM EST
I’d say October, but early/mid September would be even better. The first week of Halloween stuff out at Walgreens and the final disappearance of all back-to-school merchandise is what I’m shooting for.
not sure if im missing any other surveys, or surveys about surveys, or surveys about surveys about surveys…i could go on doing that for next to forever, but i’ll leave it at that
Ghosted by Phil B. @ 02/25/2007 7:08 PM EST
SWEET SWEEEEET SWEEEEEEEEEET!!
i just found my old “turbo-Grafix 16″ anyone familiar with this console??
only found one game though, but i found my GameBoy Pocket Also, FINAL FANTASY!! WOOOO!!
Cameron and IHAQ: a very very happy b-day to you both!! hope it is/ was an great one!!
You mean the original NES cart, Josh? If so, welcome to the wild world of FF l33t.
That is of course if you have the guide, maps and box…
Ghosted by K- @ 02/25/2007 8:05 PM EST
K-: actually i dunno if its the original cart, its called final fantasy ‘adventures’ i think it might be a mix of a couple of the earliest ones, but i could be absoluuuutly wrong budd!
great game though!
no box, no nothin’! i actually found it in my house along with the gameboy after a party i had a few years back…FINDERS KEEPERS BABY!!!!!!!!!
and K-:
You’re soooo right about ‘ infinity on high’ what an amazing album
my appologizes for the double post everyone
Ghosted by JoshC @ 02/25/2007 8:18 PM EST
Final Fantasy Adventure is the first Secret of Mana game.
Ghosted by dohopoki @ 02/25/2007 8:27 PM EST
That’s what I was about to say Doho
Ghosted by K- @ 02/25/2007 8:59 PM EST
The only celebrity I have talked to is Richard Gant (of JASON GOES TO HELL fame) at the Paris airport (!!!) but I have seen the following people:
1. Arnold Palmer (Jax airport)
2. C. Everett Koop (Philadelphia airport)
3. Meinhardt Raabe (the Munchkin Coroner at the Clay County Fair)
4. One of the guys from FISHBONE was walking around before the WARPED TOUR but I didn’t say anything.
Not a very good list but points for being eclectic??
Favorite survey? Not sure but I am a little surprised the season one had such good legs. Good job Matt.
Ghosted by The Manimal @ 02/25/2007 10:55 PM EST
Anyone watching the Oscars? I missed most of it cause of work and I looked at some of the winners.
Jennifer Hudson just won for “Dreamgirls”…Good.
Alan Arkin won for “Little Miss Sunshine”…Awesome.
Best Animated Feature was…Happy Feet?! WTF????
I wish it was December 14th 2004 or 2005, back when my ex and I were still dating. Only reason we broke up is coz her “feelings changed” I feel that she’s “the one” (probably sounds silly) and I’ll wait for her as long as it takes…but I’m probably bringing down the board. Sorry bout that…I just love her so much, and wanted to share with my XE fam…see if they had ne suggestions (plus it’s been FOREVER since i’ve posted )
Get the new Ataris album, Jabo. Also, I’d love to tell you to move on, but I’d be a hypocrite. Seems I’ve started a trend with the exact dates.
Ghosted by K- @ 02/26/2007 12:08 AM EST
So, I kept thinking about this spring/fall thing, and I woke up this morning, turned over and grabbed my DS – I started playing Animal Crossing, and all the snow had melted away! It was nice to see green grass on the ground again. I immediately felt “springy”, but then – I got up and looked outside. 3-4 inches of snow and it’s coming down like there’s no tomorrow. Punch in the face.
So, instead of waiting for that last little bit of ice to melt away from a week or so ago – I got to go shovel this brand new snow for an hour. Luckily it was light and fluffy … but still. Now I have to go to bed because I am supposed to be at work at 6am.
Ghosted by Ryane @ 02/26/2007 12:25 AM EST
How did you do that crying smiley, Ryane? Or anyone else, since she’s in bed now. I need access to that smiley. So freakin’ emo.
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But I alsways liked October; the whole fall vide is awesome….
Cameron T I don’t know. I’m getting some ideas of how an SNT writing contest could work but I think I want to actually hold this idea off for a while so I can think it through. Like, for in the summmer.
Nes games, Mega Man 2, Tecmo Super Bowl and Hello Kitty World.