So I follow Felicia Day’s updates. What can I say, I’m a fan. And I was watching some of her “commercial trailers” for her up and coming Geek and Sundry channel on Youtube. I’ll probably keep up with it. It looks good.
Anyways… One of the shows on Geek & Sundry, that will appear every other Friday, is TableTop with Wil Wheaton. Basically a show in which celebrity geeks play table top games. Sounds like fun to me.
So I’m watching this Wil Wheaton commercial trailer for Tabletop and that’s when I see a cameo! At first I was like, I guess I’ll watch this show, but after seeing the cameo, I am TOTALLY going to watch this show. Hopefully this person will be in the first few episodes!
If you like Starcraft, you’ll spot him right away!
So a few days ago I had a pretty goretastic dream. I should have wrote about it then, but I kept forgetting to do it. And since so much time has passed since the dream I’ve pretty much forgotten most of it save for the bits that stick out in my memory.
A few months ago I read a book called Urban Gothic by Brian Keene. If you’ve read it, then you have an idea what kind of dream I had. If not, then lets say the dream was a bit House of a 1000 Corpses, meets Texas Chainsaw, with a bit of Hills Have Eyes. (I know you may think those are all the same movie, but yeah)
Like I said I don’t remember much, but this is what I do remember.
Andrea and I are trapped in some dark rundown house. Not sure what city we’re in. We are being chased around the house by about 4 people. These people are the ugly, mutant looking, homicidal types. Three of them are men, and one of them is a nasty white haired hunched over old woman. She is the Mother of the three men.
The mutant people are chasing us through this house from room to room. We get to this one room where I find what seems to be a thick tree branch. One end has been cut to a spiked point. The crazy lady chases us into the room yelling for her sons to follow her attack. Without giving it much thought, I lunge at the crazy lady and stab the branch spear into her gut. As I’m attacking her she threatens us by telling us that there are more of them. It’s not just the four of them. She goes on to tell us the entire neighborhood is full of her crazy people. And that there is no escape. They will get us. I repeat my attacks, and at some point find myself behind her stabbing into her spine.
This whole part is extremely gorey.
Suddenly, as I am repeatedly stabbing the crazy lady, one of the mutant guys comes up behind me a yells and attacks me. He yells out the word “PEBKAC!”. I quickly turn around shoving him off with the branch/spear and promptly wake up.
Well that’s all I remember about that.
For awhile I had forgotten what the word was, but I remember waking up and thinking that word that he screamed out was actually some weird techy term. Only now did I remember that it was PEBKAC. A quick googling yielded this: slang in technical circles with potentially derogatory meaning “Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair”. Odd thing to use as a battle cry.
Later
And now for some random clips of cinema gore.
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WARNING the following video clip is TOTALLY NOT SAFE FOR WORK. Click More for video clip.
On Friday we left early to go to Columbia, MO. This was our first road trip in the new Fiesta. We were supposed to come up with a name for the new car on this trip but I think we kind of forgot about it. The drive from Chicago to Columbia is about 6 hours. And it rained/snowed off and on the whole way!
We made a stop in Springfiled, IL to stop at a diner Don had seen on TV. It was called Charlie Parker’s Diner. The diner was cool because it was in an old building from WW2 called a Quonset Hut. I had the country fried steak special and Don had the breakfast horseshoe. The food was pretty good. I think the atmosphere was a little better though.
We made it to Columbia around 4 pm and we killed some time doing a little shopping. Then we met up with Judy and Steve and went to dinner. We ate at Murray’s Restaurant. We had to wait for a bit but we had some drinks at the bar. Don and I both had steaks. It was delicious.
The next day we woke up early to head to Saint Louis (about 2 hours from Columbia). Don and Steve wanted to check out the Star Trek exhibit at the Science Center in STL. But first we had to stop at Pappy’s Smokehouse. This place was awesome!!! I ordered a pulled pork sandwich with potato salad and baked beans. Freaken delicious. If you are gonna go make sure to get there early. We got there right at 11 when it opened and still had to wait about 30 to 40 min. The food was soooo good!!
After Pappy’s we went to the Science Center. I have never really watched Star Trek but the exhibit was okay. There was a lot of stuff to read about space exploration that was pretty interesting. After the exhibit we walked around a bit, but most of the exhibits seemed to be pretty geared towards kids, so we left to check out the arch. I really wanted to go up into the arch but the wait was long and it was getting late in the day. So we just took some pictures and next time we will go up in it!
Then we drove back to Columbia. We picked up Judy (she had to work during the day) and decided where to have dinner. We decided on 44 Stone Public House. It was an English/Irish bar. They had an amazing beer selection. I couldn’t resist and had to get a Strongbow and an Old Speckled Hen. We shared a couple appetizers. Then I had a burger. After eating we decided to keep drinking and make a fire at the house. It was a little chilly out but next to the fire it was nice.
Once we woke up on Sunday we got ready to head back home. We made a stop in Springfield again to visit a store called Scheels. It’s like a sports/outdoors store. It was pretty cool. But we were really excited to try an Irish restaurant called D’arcy’s Pint. Little did we know it was closed on Sundays. So disappointing but I’m sure we will be cutting through Springfield again in the future to visit Missouri. So we couldn’t decide what to eat, nothing sounded good. There were fast food places nearby and I said either Arby’s or Pizza Hut sounded good. We decided on Pizza Hut since we haven’t had it in forever…..ugh I remember why I never Pizza Hut. It’s okay while you’re eating it, not so good later. So I was burping Pizza Hut the rest of the way home.
I noticed some things when we crossed the border from Missouri into Illinois. Immediately the price of gas went up 40 cents. There were tons of political/election signs. And a lot more traffic signs including tons of No Parking Signs on the side of the highway, which was highway 54. Seriously…there was nothing on this highway, why in the world would there have to be no parking signs here?! The middle of no where! Even if someone did park there why would anyone care?! I guess that’s just Illinois for you.
Before I talk about the Korean Homeless Singer, I should first explain what “clicky clicky” is. Derived from the internet verb phrase “Click Here”, this is a term I use to represent the act of clicking through videos on youtube based off of the thumbnails of the videos. Through the act of clicky clicky one could have started their normal YouTube session while watching Pearl Jam music videos but somehow end up watching videos of the voluptuous Ladies of Spanish Network Television. (Just ran a quick clicky clicky test for Peal Jam and ended up here, http://youtu.be/zuwMqfNdQ6g Not as crazy of a deviation as I explained but hopefully you get my meaning)
Anyways, so today’s Clicky Clicky found me the following video. At first as I was watching it, I was like man this build up is so lame. But then I got to the moment I was waiting for from the start of the video and I was like WTF!? Not bad, not bad at all. So I thought I’d share.
Every Sunday Don and I watch The Walking Dead. For the past several Sundays I have felt the same way when the show ends: unsatisfied. Nothing ever happens! Tonight’s episode in particular proved this.
I loved the first season and couldn’t wait for the second to start. But once they got stuck at this freaken farm the show took a turn for the boring. Every episode it was the same thing. The first half of the season was spent looking for the missing girl, only to find she was a locked up zombie in the barn. It sucked they killed her but I thought “yay, now we can move on with the plot! Let’s get off this farm!”
No….the next episodes were spent with everyone in a depression and trying to figure out if they would have to leave the farm. Now after getting into a fight in the town and bringing home an injured teen, we have to get rid of this teen. First of all…why we have to get rid of him is a joke. We nursed this kid back to health and now were going to just set him off to die on his own. When they could just keep the kid and move on from this freaken farm.
So the whole last episode was focused on Rick and Shane fighting over Lori and trying to ditch this kid. By the end of the episode we still have the kid….and is the fight over between Rick and Shane…probably not. Can’t wait for next week for part 2 of the episode where Rick and Shane will attempt to get rid of the kid again and try not to get themselves killed in the process. Then they will return to the farm with no plan. If this show was real, all of these people would be dead.
And yet I keep watching every week. Maybe there’s still hope.
