...suckers...mwahahahahahaha! Yeah ok, that wasn't so good.

First off, vote highly and leave nice reviews for this: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
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If you don't you will have a miserable life, trust me, I know of what I speak.

Secondly, go buy this, or tell you're friends to buy this: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?V iewItem&item=220456395182&_trkparms=ta b%3DSelling

Hey, the economy has hit all of us hard...and I really need to get rid of some of this stuff. So don't be a jackhole and help a brother out.

So I have about two days left on my vacation and tomorrow is pay day (also get paid back day, double sweet). I plan to spend some money on that complete G.I. Joe set and look into a new comic book shop in the neighborhood here. This would also lend credence to the whole "get some of this crap out of here" deal.

Now onto something that might actually classify as "content people might want to read" is it just me, or has this been a very lame summer movie season? I mean I'm hard pressed to think of a time in the last...let's see, I've averaged a movie a week basically since I started working in high school, so let's go with 7 years now I guess...where a summer movie slate has been this lackluster. I mean usually I can find at least ONE movie I want to see, but over these last couple weeks or so it's been hard to find anything. Did the studios just give up due to the crap economy? Or is it just a case of them blowing their wad the last couple years? There's still some stuff out in August here I guess.

But on TV Hell's Kitchen has returned, and that's still fun as hell...but they also gave Paris Hilton a TV Show where she searches for a new best friend...congratulations MTV, you now need to die, and die horribly. Why the fuck is this stupid whore's fifteen minutes not up yet? I mean...we have Lady Gaga now...I CAN'T BE EXPECTED TO HATE THIS MANY SKANKS AT ONCE!!!! IT'S FUCKING UNHEALTHY FOR ME DAMMIT!!!!

On that note, I think this ramble is done.

A new blog was demanded. But I almost never have anything to say unless I have something to plug.

I have something to plug:

http://catalog.ebay.com/The-Real-Ghost busters-Collection-Vol-1_610583354096_
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Bid and buy, it's the one for 8.50 being sold by aviewaskewed (dizzuh), I'd like to get a little more then 8.50 on it. This is probably just me not having enough faith in ebay...but fuck faith, I meant to list it for higher, damn multi-tasking. So my screw up could be your gain ebayer!

Beyond that, hope you've had a good day of remembrance and reflection (that is what Memorial Day is supposed to be about) if you have soldiers in your family I hope their safe and soon on their way home.

Also hope you're all aware of that PM virus thing going round and are protecting yourself from it. Why can't these kind of idiots just die in a car crash or something instead of trying to ruin the internet for others?

I want to join rest of NG staff in glorying our new overlords. Truly, this site will be better for such glorious activity

So not much new this week, I've just been hanging and banning. I did manage to fix the coding on my own personal boards over at www.theendlesscrew.com so we now have a tighter sign-up form with confirmation codes. I'm pretty sure spambots suck with those and utterly fail right? Anybody with more info on this one please let me know. I've had the board operational since 2003 and have been slowly but surely learning how to program it as various members who helped with such things dropped out. So I feel like it's a pretty big victory to have actually gotten this work done all by myself today. avie learned something.

So if you're inclined, stop by and hang out with all your favorite NG moderators (well, at least your favorite poli mods). Discuss comics and other stupid topics (seriously, we non-sequitor on that board like a mother fucker).

Uh let's see, something to make this not entirely a plug post. I've read a couple good books on Vlad Dracula of late, if you never have looked at the historical figure I'd recommend In Search of Dracula and Vlad Dracula Prince Of Many Faces to you as it's eminently readable scholarly work on one of histories most interesting rulers. Also got a bunch of different Gordon Ramsay shows coming in, I am not a cook, I have no real use for the food network, but I just love watching Ramsay yell at people and demand perfection, it's the only reality TV that works for me, go figure.

Also check out Dollhouse on Fridays, I've been loving that show. But hell, I love anything Joss does, also if you've not been reading the Buffy or Angel comic continuations, or the comic continuations of the crew of Serenity, doing yourself a disservice, great continuations of their respective series I think.

Another blog of plugs, but at least not a bunch of plugging my own stuff for once (but we all love my stuff don't we?) ;)

Got a new column up over at PWIPop, I'm hoping to work about a week ahead while I have the material handy to do so (at present I have a column for next week, and the week after in the can and ready, but may wind up doing one or two columns ready before or after next week which would pad me out even further). The biggest thing I'm finding is screwing me is sitting down to write knowing I have self-imposed deadlines on things, so I'm trying to take a tip from Brian Bendis and write things out far far in advance so that on any given day I can just get up and do whatever kind of column I feel like doing, and even be able to have do nothing or do other stuff days without feeling bad about it.

I love writing, but working full time, and modding here, and my bowling league and just hanging out with the real life friends is time consuming. So yeah, let's hope that works, I'm hoping to have something up on the home site (www.theendlesscrew.com for those not savvy) sometime next week as well and I'd like to see if I can't work up a few ahead there, my big problem though is sometimes with such a narrow focus (comics) things don't leap out at me and I'm not going to do work I don't believe in, sure the reader might be getting free content but if you spend your time to read it that it should be GOOD free content. Ya know?

That's about it for now, I'm just looking to plug my work and then move back on. Thanks to everyone who has nice things to say about the odds and ends I do around the internet, the support and kind words are appreciated. For those that don't like it, or don't care well...I like to think there's a special place in hell for people who hate on others for either no reason, or really bad ones. :)

I hope everyone had a merry christmas, happy hannukah, crazy kwanzaa, or whatever it is you celebrate. I also hope you've got some great plans for ringing in the New Year.

08 was a pretty good year all in all over here I think. I gota gig doing semi-regular columns at WIPop.com, I think I've rediscovered some the passion for working on my own site at www.theendlesscrew.com (we actually got a plug over in LITG at comicbookresources for running christmas day material, so let's see how that works for us in terms of hits and readership).

I got to tour Yankee Stadium before it closed, and have a great team in a brand new stadium to look forward to next year. My dad and I are already talking about hitting the pre-season exhibition game with the Cubs.

Plus joined a bowling league and you know? It's a good team and I'd like to see what we might be able to do if we got to start in a league and stay consistent with it the whole season instead of just halfway through.

So I hope your year was good too, I hope your new year will be great, and hopefully we'll all be able to enjoy each other's company for another 365. Or you know, we'll just have some laughs at each other's expense, whatever works.

Some things going on with me and the world I want to put out there quick:

Looks like I finally have a real and reliable bowling team. This is good...that only took like, half the season (we started in August and we end in April). It's actually going to make us a bit more formidable while still getting a shit load of handicap points to help us (yay having a girl with a low average, haha). The tentative name for us will be No More Drama. I may start running more updates on that if I get enough people who would be interested in such recaps and such.

Found out there's a comic shop now about 20 minutes away from me, plan on taking a trip out there soon to shop and apply for a job. I'm really not loving what I'm doing, but while I'd love to be able to work in a comic shop full time or something, I probably can't afford to do it financially, so at best it'd probably just mean me having two gigs and cutting down on my time at Wal-Mart until maybe I could just finally ease my way out of there. Of course this whole plan is contingent on them actually wanting an extra person, let's hope.

Just a real quick note on some of the shitty comments I get in here from time to time from people I ban. Hey geniuses, what do you think is gonna happen when you take time to shit in my personal space about things that have nothing to do with anything I write here? Hmmm? I love how none of these folks have obviously read the BBS rules, or just forget that one about harrassing site mods or admins. If you send a mod or admin a PM bitching about a ban and swearing them out, we can and will extend your ban. On IM? Same. Post bullshit on our blogs? Same. It's not worth your time, all it gets you is banned longer. Is that something that's REALLY all that interesting, sure isn't to me, but I sure don't mind clicking that button. Just saying.

I really love Halloween. Lot's of people don't, those people suck. Seriously.

By the way, you know what the big argument against Halloween has been right? The big people against it? Really really conservative Christians, cause it's "pagan".

If you fit the description of ultra conservative Christian, I want you to keep reading, I really do. Because you need a history lesson. Let's roll that beautiful bean footage:

The Christian Religion as currently practiced by the great majority, was basically "invented" by the Roman Emperor Constantine as a means to unite his empire after winning a Civil War for the throne. But Constantine was a PAGAN, he worshipped a sun god. His "conversion" to Christianity was basically a political sham. He immediately began changing the trappings of the religion immediately to fit his Sun God worship, but just putting it under a different name, and then rigidly formalizing it into an organized political machine (hello Catholic Church). You can learn this in any decent history class or source. You're religion has many many pagan roots, so screw this idea of "oh paganism bad". Shut up, you don't want to celebrate? Don't, that's absolutely your right. But don't fuck it up for people who do!!!

There is nothing inherently wrong or evil with Halloween, the original idea and what not of the holiday is long gone and it's simply evolved into a day in which people can pretend to be someone else, have fun, and kids can go door to door, be a favorite character, and eat candy till their sick. Scary movies invade our TV's and multiplexes (some great, some trash). It's just FUN! Anyone against fun I have no use for, none, not a bit, go away.

Also, if we're going to start arguing about Halloween being a religious holiday and trying to use that backdoor to get it out of schools and elsewhere, well Christmas is too, so do away with that also. What? You don't have a problem with Christmas? But it's a religious holiday like Halloween is! See, just killed that argument too.

Also stores? STOP PUSHING CHRISTMAS IN SEPTEMBER OR OCTOBER!!! YOU JUST PISS US OFF. I've hated anytime I've had to help unload a bloody truck lately and there's like one pallet of Halloween decorations and stuff, and like two of Christmas. I know the Christmas sells better, that's where the big money is made, but come on! Do we really need that much that soon? Really? I think not.

So in the end, if you don't like Halloween, just make that your own personal opinion and don't try to screw around with other people's fun and good time.

http://www.pwipop.com/features.php?fea ture=143

That's my new PWIpop column promoting this very website. Please to be making use of the comments section and helping to get the love for NG out there...but for the love of God be responsible in the doing of it children!!!

So, I just started what I'm hoping is going to be a regular gig over at www.pwipop.com doing some writing over there about various pop culture things. It's not a paying gig no, but neither is modding. It's fun though and it's reputable group of people running it so who knows, could be something big, could just be a hobby type thing.

Anyway, here's the link to the first one http://www.pwipop.com/features.php?fea ture=56

Hope you all enjoy and leave comments. If you've got any ideas for stuff I could write about, post 'em here too!!! I really enjoy doing this stuff, but sometimes it can be dang tough to come up with ideas. Probably gonna do a lot of movie reviewing and stuff for times like that. But I really want to try and keep up with this. Hope you guys enjoy it and a big and heartfelt thank you to all my wonderful, wonderful friends who continue to support me in all that I attempt. I know it's mushy, but it's true, I couldn't do it without you believing in me :)