The original Mortal Kombat was a fantastic game- it took the 2D one-on-one fighting found in games like Street Fighter and King of Fighters, and added digitized actors (as seen in Atari’s earlier Pit Fighter) to up the cool factor[…]
Archive: April 2011
April
25
2011
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April
24
2011
I’m not a fan of most country music, and the few country artists I do enjoy tend to be either universally loved (Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, etc.) or cool underground acts (The Groovy Rednecks). Part of the reason I eschew[…]
April
22
2011
If the Dodgers weren’t such a mess, Kim Ng never would have left in the first place. Now that baseball needs a trustee to run the team, I can think of no one better suited for the job. She knows[…]
April
21
2011
Superhero Parking Only
- LOCATED IN christopher reeve, superman, Uncategorized
While picking up a sandwich at my local Subway, I saw this in the parking lot: Here’s a close-up in case you can’t tell what that is: I have no idea what this signifies, unless it means that unless you[…]
April
20
2011
Scre4m for me Los Angeles!
- LOCATED IN movie review, scre4m, Uncategorized
Bruce Dickinson really loves to yell “Scream for me” when on stage, and since Eddie is a horror staple, it’s practically kismet that it fits as the title for a movie review. I’ll make this review pretty simple- if you[…]
April
19
2011
Shows- IE tonight, Bako Friday
- LOCATED IN shows, stand-up, Uncategorized
Tonight, come see me in Corona at Dempsy’s at 9 PM:511 N. Main St.Corona, CA 92880 The place gets a stellar 2 star rating on Yelp.com, and really, how can you pass that opportunity up? Here’s a quote from Yelp[…]
April
18
2011
This week the “band” I’ve selected is just a duo, and they rarely play together, but the music they make is so incredible it has to be shared. Chick Corea is one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time[…]
April
14
2011
Hamburger Hypocrites
- LOCATED IN food, hypocrisy, Uncategorized, vegans
I love hypocrites, simply because it’s so fun to see them squirm when they get caught. Dante places them in the 8th Circle of Hell in his Inferno, and I hope the perpetrators of this end up roasting there with[…]
April
14
2011
Dying Languages
- LOCATED IN language, Uncategorized
I just read this article about how there is a language in Mexico that is spoken by only two persons, and they refuse to talk to each other. Call me a cultural elitist, but I find losing a language to[…]
April
11
2011
RIP Sam Kinison
- LOCATED IN comedians, sam kinison, Uncategorized
Sam Kinison died 19 years ago yesterday, and the world lost one of the greatest stand-up comedians to ever grace the stage. I never met the man, and wasn’t quite old enough to get to see him perform live, but[…]
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