Laura Viers

Laura Viers was on Studio 360 this week.
She's playing in town next month.
June 9 - Aladdin Theater - Portland, OR

tv on demand

http://www.tv-links.co.uk/

thanks to brian

King Dork

i read King Dork, or rather i listened to the audio book. (Library) I liked the book but was a little disappointed by the ending since it seemed to come out of nowhere, but i might have been a little distracted as i listened to it at work. If i was actually reading it, i might have gone back over certain passages. The book is about a high school sophomore with a band and his battle with the "normals" and the cult of Catcher in the Rye. Its kinda like if John Hughes made the movie version of Freaks and Geeks except with the protagonist having some success. I could see the book being a MTV production, i totally seems like something they would make + it was written by the lead singer of the Mr T experience so there's a built in music hook.

new games

bought Treasures & Traps, Let's Kill! (atlas games) and Munchkin Cthulhu.
they all looked good, so i splurged.

dorkbotpdx

dorkbotpdx - about
people doing strange things with electricity (in portland)

the press club

Had lunch at the Press Club Sunday (Clinton and 26th, next doot to Green Noise Records). They have good crepes and an excellent selection of magazines to browse through you can also buy. I like the artist curently showing there, Ilya Zlotnikov.

TOP SHELF'S 10TH ANNIVERSARY MASSIVE $3 SALE!

Hey Comics Fans,

To celebrate Top Shelf's 10th Anniversary in publishing, and also to announce (and prepare for) our 2007-2008 publishing line, for the next ten days -- thru Wednesday, April 18th -- Top Shelf is having its biggest web sale ever. Below you'll find over 125 graphic novels and comics on sale, with fifty titles marked down to just $3 (!), twenty-five titles marked down to just $1 (!), and a slew of other key titles just slashed (including Lost Girls, From Hell, Blankets, and more)! All we ask is that you hit a $30 minimum on sale and/or non-sale items (before shipping). It's a great opportunity to load up on all those graphic novels you've wanted to try, but just never got around to picking up. Get 'em while supplies last!

Mr. Fancy Pants

Play Fancy Pants Adventure

because ben likes it

something i need

Friend's Video

also available in spanish!

Sam and Max

sam and max are back with new games. x-play rated them 4/5 stars. i might have to actually use my parallels software now. + there are new on-line comics. wish i had the old comics.

gaming update

won at auction:
$8 awful green things from outer space
$5 chez geek 1&3
$4 castle
$3 justice league heroes
$3 chez dork
4.5 Burn in Hell

Sold rail baron for $50 for which i bought:
trans america and lost cities.

comic boxes

hm, something cheaper than my idea.

collection.powweb.com

animal crossing for wii ?!

Nintendo Lists Major Wii Games for 2007
* Dairantou Smash Brothers X (Super Smash Bros. Brawl) * Disaster: Day of Crisis * Donkey Kong Taru Jet Race (DK Bongo Blast) * Doubutsu no Mori [Animal Crossing] * Forever Blue * Hoshi no Kirby (Kirby Adventure) * Mario Party 8 * Mario Strikers Charged * Metroid Prime 3: Corruption * Project H.A.M.M.E.R. * Super Mario Galaxy * Totsugeki Famicom Wars (Battalion Wars II) * Wii Health Pack * Wii Music
http://wii.ign.com/articles/766/766803p1.html

i've been shopping on line for a e-reader for animal crossing and was happy to see that nintendo still has series 1 and 4 e-reader packs. but maybe i should hold off if the game is coming to the wii.

oh, and it looks like i'm going to have to send my wii in. the optical drive is having problems and since i already downloaded a VC game (mario cart), they can't just exchange it for another unit.

work drawings

game auction

this sunday is rainy day games' yearly game auction.

correction: the auction is half yearly.

update: sold my copy of Rail Baron for $50.

Review: My super ex-girlfriend

terrible, terrible movie. i'm writing this to warn you to not waste your time on this movie, even if you get the chance to see it for free. you know how some trailers give away the best part of a movie? this one gives away the only joke in the movie. i rented it figuring it would be dumb and funny. it was just dumb. i can't see how Ivan Reitman didn't get his name removed from this movie.

amimal crossing (GC)

so i had played animal crossings years ago as a rental and recently decided to buy it since it was on sale and by buying it, you get a memory card with a NES game included. animal crossing is like the sims, with cute animals. you deliver packages, pay off your house, collect fossils, insects and fish and try to decorate your house with the proper feng shui principals. furthermore, it has a real time calendar aspect to the game. some animals only appear during certian months and holidays are celebrated in the game. i started my new town on the new card and then tried to visit my old town. so my old town is on a third party card i bought and it's been kinda flaky. it seems to only work on my gamecube and i can read it only on the second slot on the wii. unfortunately, animal crossing, like many games will only read the first slot and furthermore, it won't allow me to copy the data to a new card. well, when i tried to travel to my old town, the wii would no longer read the the card. i tried reinserting the card a few times, wiggling this way and that. it read it enough to start a trip and then failed. i reset the machine and tried again. this time it reported that the old town data was corrupt and surprise, as a result i lost all the items i had "on me" including the letter with the NES game and money.
I'm never buying third party hardware again.

PDX gaming

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