CRS
Chandler, Arizona, United States

There's an old saying. If you don't want someone to join a crowd, you ask them, "If everyone were jumping off of a cliff, would you?" Well, I have. So my answer would be "Yes". True story.
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Monday, December 05, 2011

this entry brought to you by beck, "nausea"


THE GOOD

Gabby Gifford's recovery Her husband's book about the experience has been out for a little while and he's been doing the promotional circuit, and when she can, she's been with him. To be honest, I have purposefully avoided it. I don't think I would've been able to see any of it without just crumbling into a quivering pile. Not necessarily because it's so sad what happened to her-- and it is, I shouldn't even have to say that-- but because I'm so fucking proud of her for her recovery and how she's pulled through. Just seeing the picture of her smiling out at me from the cover of her husband's book and seeing his face beaming at her makes me blubber like an idiot. I don't know how I would be able to actually handle seeing footage of her.

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Yes, the game is five years old, but I just got around to beating it this past October. I've tried to buy a Wii for every Holiday season since it came out, and before last Christmas, they were literally never available when I had money, so I didn't even get the game until Christmas 2010 when I bought the system. My wife and I were simultaneously half-way through a game called Darksiders for the X-Box 360, which, if you've never played it, is an XBox 360 game with HD graphics, lots of blood when you kill monsters, is heavy on the action and actually has challenging combat, but otherwise is exactly like Zelda. Did I mention it's in HD? So we put in Zelda all excited, and four or five hours into it we were looking at one another and admitting we weren't having fun at all. We wanted to like it, but fuck it, we'd much prefer just playing Darksiders. Nine months went by, and in the middle of September our HD TV died and we had to lug out the old standard def. I initially tried playing 360 games on it but I stopped, saying, why the hell am I doing this? Why not play the Wii, which was designed to play on this TV? In we popped Zelda and within no time we were completely hooked. A few weeks ago the follow-up, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword came out, and I've been hearing people say how much they disliked Twilight Princess. They're wrong. They disliked the first few hours of it.

Scarlett Johansson's breast Scarlett's naked, private photos leaked on September 12th-- that's right, I remember the day-- and somehow I went that entire day completely unaware. The next day, my friend-- a female friend!-- told me about them saying that she had no idea how I missed them, that they were all over the Internet. A moment later after doing a Google search I was looking at a three quarter angle of one of her boobs, and it was wonderful. No, it was not the most fantastic breast in the world. But it was goddamn near. Also, quite a nice butt!

Herman Cain out of the GOP race Yes, I know someone like Cain would be hilarious for comedy if he stayed but I always hate it when guys like this run, because it lowers the national discourse, and having to go through an actual election year with this iodt running against Obama would've been tortuous. It's just as well that he fell out, though. I never thought he was trying to run a serious campaign to begin with. His entire existence seemed to have been there because the people who run the party really, really wanted Mitt Romney to win and wanted Cain to run to make Romney appear smarter and more qualified, when the whole thing got away from them. Cain got what he wanted, though: his speaking fee has skyrocketed, and I'm sure he's sold a ton of his book.

Laurie Holden on The Walking Dead I really like this actress, and enjoy her in everything I see her in, starting with her role as Marita Covarrubias on The X-Files, but I swear, everything I see her in she dies! I would really, really like for her to get through this series not dead. Please?


THE BAD

Steve Jobs' death I know Steve Jobs meant a lot to a lot of people, but myself, I'm not an Apple guy. Yes, Steve Jobs changed my life with the Ipod. I was curious about MP3 players before the Ipod, but he was responsible for the creation of one that could hold your entire catalog of music, and I absolutely had to have it. Still, other than my beloved Ipod that stays with me everywhere, I could never consider myself an Apple person. The reason I admired Steve Jobs is that, as the CEO of Apple, his salary was one dollar per year. Yet he was one of the richest people in the world. This just shows that CEOs don't need to give themselves salaries that are 300 times the amount the average worker at their company makes and still be incredibly wealthy. I know that in his later years Jobs became more conservative, but to me, this was his most important contribution to society. Well, the most important after the Ipod.

Cold Showers I must have complained about this last year. In the middle of November the water in the shower just stopped being hot. We were miserable for a few weeks or so, until I figured out a trick to get it to work again. It took a couple minutes, but you were fine afterward. Sure enough, right in the middle of November, it happened again. But the trick worked, so I wasn't that worried about it. And then, as of about two weeks ago, the trick just stopped working. I haven't taken a hot shower in weeks. But the hot water works everywhere else in the house!

Madonna's leaked nude pics There was a point in time not too long ago where I thought, Madonna's old, but she is still beautiful. And now... Well. She looks kind of old. But the problem with the leaked nude pictures isn't that she's old-- it's the weird sinewy shape she's in. Her arms look bizarre. And yes, I've said that before, but really, this is a very, very unappealing set of naked pictures, even for an old woman. Also, is she wearing a blonde wig? Is Madonna bald under there?

Black Friday Sales You know what sucks about Black Friday Sales? Besides the obvious, I mean. Let's assume you order on-line so you stay in and don't have to deal with the crowds. What sucks for me anyway is that I get paid time-and-a-half for Thanksgiving, which is the day before Black Friday. So my big pay check isn't until the following week! If the following Friday was when everyone had these great deals, that'd be fantastic, but as it stands, those sales mean shit to me.

The Avengers Teaser I know I've complained about the concept of an Avengers movie before, so there's no real use in going into it here, and I realize I'm in the minority in terms of nerddom. But I saw the trailer and it did not inspire me, and also, I like Mark Ruffalo, but as the Hulk? I unno.
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with love from CRS @ 6:44 AM 

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