Wicked Faire Pics

So as I said in the other post about Dreamation, we had been invited to 2 conventions on the same weekend so I took off and hit the Wicked Faire convention on Saturday Night. Parties abounded, despite the Police presence looming around. I took pictures because Rich was working with the video camera at Dreamation.

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My friends Michele and Mary walking from the car which we had to park in the bank next to the hotel because the hotel parking lot was filled. They borrowed my suit jacket because they were wearing outfits that didn't quite keep them warm.

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One of the vendors that specialized in wood work.

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One of the dealer's rooms that had a stage set up with a band playing.

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They should have had one of these at the Chocolate Heaven at Dreamation.

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The Roller Derby Scene was represented at Wicked Faire with members of the Garden State Rollergirls hanging around ready to kick some ass.

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Michele showing off the "Chain Mail Wings" a vendor was trying to 'convince' her to buy.

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My friend Jodi. That's all....

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Michele and Mary checking out some vendors stuff.....right before they were dancing for me....My brain was somewhere else or I would have taken some pictures....

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All I can say is that her boyfriend should either be jealous or happy.....probably happy.

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Diabolik's Angels? Demons? Either way it was nice to by flanked by 3 beautiful women.


That's what I have that was usable from Wicked Faire. Some pictures came out really blurry and others I am trying to get releases to use.

Diabolik's Nifty Thing of the Day!

An old segment from the days of the Perfect Score Flashcasts where I would talk about and post something I thought was nifty.

Well I found something so super nifty that I had to bring it back and then possibly continue it for a while.....we'll see.

 

 

SOUNDWAVE MP3 PLAYER!!!!!!!!!!!!!THAT TRANSFORMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!AND RUMBLE AND FRENZY HEADPHONES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, so the MP3 player takes a miniSD card (and says up to 1 gig but I think that may have been before 2 gig was available) and has no screen to display song information, but it works and who cares about anything else?

So cool. Getting one later this month.....not sure about the headphones but we will see.

Pics from Dreamation

So while I was out attending the Dreamation and Wicked Faire I brought my new digital camera and snapped some shots to test it out. So here most of them are....

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This was a POV shot from our table space in the Registration room at Dreamation. Registration is covered up with white table cloths because it was around midnight. I think this was Friday night.

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This was our table where we had the Killzone 2 and Halo Wars demos running for people to check out and so that Rich could run his social experiment. It's also where I did some interviews when we couldn't find anywhere else to talk.

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I believe this was the AVATAR LARP system's annual high council meeting. I know Avie and Kate and Tiny were there but I didn't stick around long enough to find out definitively.

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This was a panoramic shot of the Board Game room and the Big Board on the back and left walls. This was at Midnight on Friday Night and look how packed it was....

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Now this was Saturday morning at 9am in the same room. The board games were really hopping even at that early hour.

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Here is Jonathan Lavallee hard at work Beta Testing one of his projects, Championship Fight Card, a Facebook app.

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The table of prizes you can spend your points on that you earn by playing in different games during the convention. Some of them are pretty cool, others are just nostalgic, but all of them are FREE!

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Knight Realms was represented at the convention and running some modules.

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Ah...my friend's at security. They had this Profit Sharing Plan that I had to inquire about. It involved them taking my profits. I wasn't such a fan....but it was funny.

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One of the vendors that was set up, but in the hallway heading to the Dealer's Room. I thought it would be a cool panoramic shot.

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This was most of the dealer's room. The weaponry is from Griffon's Claw Armory who I run into at just about every convention I go to.

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Smirk & Dagger was at the convention and Curt Covert sat down with me and talked about some of the most recent releases and about something that he is currently working on.

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Jonathan Lavallee talking to, and joking with, a reporter who came down to the convention and was talking to different guests.

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I blinded Dave Simpson with my camera. And that was just the tip of the iceberg of abuse I laid upon him for the entirety of the convention.

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There was a movie theater attached to the hotel and gamers set up in the hallway leading to it. I wonder how many normal people ran away....

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This is where Rich and I shot the opening and closing segments for the convention where the waterfalls were running the entire time.

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The NAGA and PRGA and Indy games were given the entire boardroom area of the hotel which meant they were segmented away from the rest of the convention but they had such a great area to be put in.

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Jennifer Rodgers is an artist who has been working with a variety of Indy Games.

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There was a ton of Street Fighter 4 going on, both on the big screen in the Video Game room and at our table between sections.

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There was a LAN setup and a variety of people there to help with tech support and running the equipment for the Electronic Gaming.

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The Con Suite where refreshments are made available to the Con goers so that no one drops dead from lack of sugar.

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Mike Lorenzo running his Zombie game he talks about in our interview.

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The RC Tanks that I never get to play. I really want to play with them....

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The leader of Double Exposure, Vinny with his +20 shirt of Smiting....


Well that is everything I shot at Dreamation. Wicked Faire coming soon....

What did Diabolik do today?

• 18:31 Just got out of Dreamation. Got a lot done and had a good time.

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Wicked Faire

So I just got back to Dreamation from Wicked Faire. I got there at 11:30 with a group of friends which is why I got there so damn late. Now I had heard that there were some issues with the hotel giving Jeff and all of Wicked a hard time about the parties and such. Last year at Wicked Faire there were issues when the hotel management changed and was trying to deny the Faire access to the hotel because of what it may do to the hotel's image or some such shit.

So I had a few friends that hit Wicked on Friday and I polled them to find out what was going on. I was looking forward to seeing some of my friends and enjoying the after parties. When I got there Voltaire was on stage and I ran into a great number of people that I knew from other Wicked events and some others that I had already seen this weekend here at Dreamation.

I was looking for a specific friend of mine who said she was in Voltaire and while I couldn't find her we went around and checked out the dealers that were open. I saw the weapons dealer that I know from a bunch of cons, the same one I had seen earlier in the day at Dreamation. My friend Michele tried on this cool pair of chainmail pseudo wings which she loved, but they were $250. Aside from that there was a T-Shirt place that was doing custom shirts on site which I thought was cool, but they had run out of my size before I got there. They had a pre-printed template that said "I'm not evil....I'm Diabolical" which they would have allowed me to to change to Diabolikal. They had some live music acts going on in some vendor rooms, along with some Bondage demonstrations. It was fairly well laid out as the hotel offered a huge ballroom that they could use for vendors and shows, along with some DJ mixing and dancing.

I got a little private dance of Michele and Mary dancing with each other in front of me while others stared jealously. It was fun. We ended up at a few different room parties which friends of mine were hosting and some drinks were had and some interesting conversations had. Unfortunately because of the hotel crackdown, there were cops trolling the halls on a regular basis and it forced everything to be very low key. I understand the hotel not wanting to be responsible if something happens, but at an event like Wicked Faire there should be a little wiggle room.

Either way I had an okay time. I think the potential of the con was much better, especially since it had a better layout for different events, and I must say that I know I wasn't able to get the whole experience with my limited hours available, but I found that the police presence made people uncomfortable and there was a lot less debauchery going on.

I know that having a convention in a warehouse or convention center is more of a pain in the ass when you are trying to facilitate an enviroment in which you want people to enjoy themselves and be able to move to a room to continue the party elsewhere. I wish there was a way to get a good compromise because I love the people I see at the con and would hate to have the only reason for me to show up at a con would be to shoot some footage or take some pictures and then see some friends and leave.

Well, that is what I have. I will post some pictures from Dreamation and Wicked Faire in the next day or so.

Now off to study for a quiz due in 15 hours.

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Diabolik's Take on Dreamation

So I am sitting here as Rich goes to get some tacos to feed our bellies, and I wanted to share my feelings on the con so far.

I like this hotel a little better than the last Dreamation, but I still prefer the Hilton in East Brunswick just because of it's layout.

This hotel has an odd layout so it is cool, but much more spread out than I would like. I enjoyed popping in and out of rooms and seeing what was going on at any given time, here I have to travel around half the hotel just to get to the wargaming areas.

Aside from that, there is a movie theatre in the hotel basically. It seems that the hotel is connected to a building complex that has a Kiddie Academy and the Theatre and other stuff.

As for Thursday, I was disappointed by the lack of a Mafia LARP and the chance to talk to Tony D. As of right now Tony isn't even at the con yet, but he is scheduled to be here for a module at 2pm. His LARP is scheduled for Sunday at 10am. Rich and I set up and shot a 25 minute opening segment for the show and he and I edited it last night and it should be squared away and on the site and Itunes and YouTube soon. I really enjoyed shooting that segment. It was the first time since the reorganization of Bacon Ice Cream that we have covered a bigger convention and I liked not being super serious. I was always trying to be serious and professional, and now I say fuck it, this is me and deal with it. Plus I think it makes better content. We decided to go check out Dave Simpson's game Blood & Leather which I demoed back at last Dreamation. Played it twice and got the hang of it, pointed out s few little issues with it, but otherwise it is a good game.

Friday I was supposed to help run the MosterPocalypse demo for Dark Tower Games here at the con because I am a Press Ganger for Privateer Press. I was supposed to be here at 9am for it, but we learned that the hotel was not going to have internet access available, and we were told that it was $11 a minute (which we assumed was an hour, but we were told minute). This meant that I could not take the exam that I had to finish before 11pm on Friday would not be able to be done at the hotel. I tried to get up super early after we got back to the house at 3:30am and that didn't happen. I must have turned off the alarm without realizing it.

So Rich woke me up at 8:30ish and I got prepped and then took the exam. I got a 68 and I am rather pissed at myself for screwing it up, but hopefully I can pull that grade up. Anyway....

We got here after fixing our feedburner feeds which were screwing up the Grazr feeds, and fixing my Twitter account and just getting some stuff squared away. we got to the con a little after 4, chilled with some of the guys (I have to say that I am missing Eric from Asmodee) and then started editing footage. I was wandering around and I noticed Kate's super cute hair and wanted to investigate and it turned out the Jon from Firestorm Ink was running his Battle of the Bands LARP for CyberGen. He asked if I wanted to help, and as I offered at last Dreamation because, while Jon is a talented motherfucker, he can't juggle all the hats and get everything done. He asked me to be the company spokesman and try to get some of the bands to drop out of the competition.

I actively did everything I could to manipulate the bands to do what I needed them to do, and in the end I ended up charging one female band member with stalking the guitarist of the House Band, having a different band thinking that the other members of the band poisoned one of the members, and got one of the bands disqualified for tampering with the electronics of the show. It was a ton of fun to help out, especially for someone like Jon who appreciated it and also gave me the opportunity to do whatever I wanted to do.

After finishing the larp I headed back to the booth and Rich started playing Street Fighter 4 while I sat down and edited the footage I shot of the FoodMachine tournament and by the time I coouldn't see anymore I was nearly done, just looking for some internet to finish it up and it will be posted.

So Rich and I flipped a coin and decided to spend the night behind the booth rather than packing everything up and heading to the house. It went pretty well, I caught about 3 hours of sleep and woke up to run the Mosterpocalypse Demo at 9am. No one showed up. I spent a bunch more time taking pictures and talking to friends and just generally fucking around. Played a little SF4, wrote this blog post, talked to Jon about his new Facebook App. Aside from that I am sitting here waiting for tacos to arrive, taking in the atmosphere, and anticipating the soon to come debauchery of Wicked Faire.

More to come later.

DIABOLIK

What did Diabolik do today?

• 14:19 Rich and I are finally on the road to Dreamation. Stupid exam that I got a 68 on. Maybe if the next one isn't the same weekend as a con. ...
• 20:07 Editing the footage we shot last night.
• 21:22 Helping Jon with the CyberGen LARP.
• 23:34 Fucking fabulous game session.

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Prepping for Dreamation and Wicked Faire

So I know I haven't been able to write in a while, being as I forgot I was a college student again and therefore have a shitload of work to do on top of my normal duties at the store.

And I have so much work to do before even getting to Dreamation. And an exam I can only take after 4pm on Thursday.

But the weekend should be full of Diabolik ranting and yelling and interviewing, along with whips and chains and sex toys.

And I wish the latter was my personal life......

I am going to be escorted to Wicked Faire by two very hot young ladies and we plan on enjoying the shit out of it.

So yes, Diabolik has triple duty this weekend. I have Dreamation stuff to do, Wicked Faire stuff to do, video editing, homework, and an exam.....I guess I really playing 5 roles this weekend.

I am off to get the last sleep I willl see until Sunday night.....when I have a paper due.

Oh yeah, I went and did something new to my hair.
Watch the videos and find out.

More painting Nonsense

More stuff I am working on. I went from this:


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In a matter of 3 hours. Lots of small details that I was trying to paint without losing the details.

Stuff Diabolik's been painting

I just got my first real digital camera, and I started messing with it. I have been taking pictures as I go when I am painting some models and I wanted to share them with people.

They aren't complete but I have a competition coming up on the 28th where I need to have stuff painted, so I am getting stuff done as fast as I can and then I will go back and actually finish them.

Let me know what you think.

BIC Drama

Hey everyone.

I just wanted people to know that our Father (or father-in-law in Rich's case) underwent a triple bypass operation today.

He is resting now and seems to have come through it intact. We will see what the next few days lead us to, but I am sure that he will make a full recovery.

More TV from Diabolik

I just watched the last 2 episodes of The Shield.......wow. If anyone isn't familiar with the show or hasn't watched it in a few seasons, go get the seasons on DVD and watch it. i loved the irony in how the show ended compared to how it started. It was almost uncomfortable to watch the last 3 minutes.

I woke up today, made it down to the store and checked the TV listings from last night so that I would know what I could expect on my DVR when I get home today, and what do I find? New episodes of Nip/Tuck started last night. And new episodes of Damages start tonight. Along with a bunch of shows kicking back off after the break.

Surprise things for Diabolik....I like the show Worst Week. It is a little over the top, but if anyone has just had their life spiral out of control in one day, that is this show.

And I really enjoy The Mentalist. I don't know why, something about the main character makes me smirk, and the fact that the overarching goal of the show has only been focused on in one episode and mentioned in 2 others makes me want to see what happens. Not like with CSI when the miniature killer struck 5 times in 3 episodes or whatever. This one is far more subtle.

That's all I have right now. Now I get to inventory a store full of miniatures.

Big Apple Con Coverage

Rich and I spent most of the day working on a little project that we came up with and shot over at the Big Apple Con this past weekend. I hope to have the project up tomorrow afternoon both on Itunes and on YouTube. Keep an eye out.

DIABOLIK

What did Diabolik do today?

• 14:07 Rich and I are on our way to the Big Apple Con.
• 21:00 Capturing the video we shot at Big Apple Con. Looking forward to editing it.

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What did Diabolik do today?

• 10:02 Just voted. First time I had to wait in line.

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What did Diabolik do today?

• 12:24 Started watching Dexter Season 2 today. Season 1 was pretty good. The end was............odd.
• 13:05 What sucks about knowing there is another season after this one is that the suspense is almost eliminated from this season....oh well.

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What did Diabolik do today?

• 03:59 And the zombies win again!

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What did Diabolik do today?

• 03:15 About to turn on more Dexter and head to bed.....Hanging with Rich in the morning...
• 09:58 Off with Rich to my nutritional consult.
• 20:51 Danae's car was just hit with shaving cream. They came out early this year.
• 20:58 I can't find my Deadpool belt buckle. :'(
• 21:29 Made it to the craft store so Keith can make me a new belt buckle!
• 22:40 Zombies are trying to take over Woodinvale again. We have to stop them before midnight!
• 00:48 The humans saved the townsfolk from the zombies!

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What did Diabolik do today?

• 13:17 Watching Dexter Season 1.....I really like this show. #
• 16:27 Now I have to stop watching Dexter as people are actually in the store now.....the show is really well written. Can't wait to watch more.... #
• 23:58 In the sixth episode (Dexter) I was actually fearful that he was going to get caught. I really didn't want him to have to dump his trophies. #

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Tweets for Today

• 18:46 About to play some Last Night On Earth and take over town of Woodinvale. Review to come. #
• 23:59 Zombies won the town twice in a row! #

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Testing the email updating of Blogger

Yeah, more boring testing from me to try to get things figured out to make my ability to deliver the random thinkings of myself to you.

DIABOLIK

MONSTERPOCALYPSE!!!!

I love this game! Monsterpocalypse is a collectible miniatures game from Privateer Press where you get to control giant Monsters and a small army to back them up in either destroying the city or saving it by destroying it.

It came out on October 10 and TOGIT has sold through 5 times more than it's initial order. Every 2 days Frank has to head back to our distributor to get more.

It is a game where you move dice between different pools to do different things. From spawn units to attacking to throwing your opponent's monster through a building. It is a strategy game to a point but the dice can make or break it. One of the best parts of it is that there are different tyes of dice you can earn. White dice have the chance to hit on three sides and three sides are blank; blue dice have 4 sides that you can hit with and 2 blanks sides; and red dice have only 1 blank side on them. You can earn Red dice by destroying building and killing enemies (and other ways), and you get blue dice in some attacks because your figure gets a bonus.

I have seen someone get into position to kill off a monster only to have most of his dice roll blank and his opponent picks up his monster and body slams him into a nuclear power plant, causing a the building to be destroyed and the enemy monster take a serious hit of radiation poisoning.

Check out the game at www.monsterpocalypse.com and I know that I am organizing tournaments at The Only Game In Town (www.togit.com) for Thursday October 23, November 8th and November 22nd. If anyone is in the area come down and check it out.

DIABOLIK

Upcoming Bacon Ice Cream Coverage

Diabolik here to update anyone who cares, and even those of you who don't, about what Bacon Ice Cream has planned over the next few months.

Rich and I are going to be heading to the Big Apple Con in New Y0rk City on November 14 to do some interviewing and talking to some of the guests. I am looking forward to this because some of my favorite comic artists are going to be there and i would love to talk to them on camera and get a sketch or two done for my potential tattoo portfolio.

The following weekend the entire Bacon Ice Cream crew is going to be hitting the VGXPO in Philly. I know we are planning on being there on the 21st and 23rd, we are working out the details for the 22nd.

We are also looking forward to attending Dreamation once again on February 19 through February 22 of 2009, and I have been invited to the Wicked Winter Renaissance Faire IV on February 20 through the 22nd. I know I am going to try to split my time between the two.

Once we get done with those conventions we wil be posting our recaps in our own blogs and the video and interviews we do on Perfect Score. If you are reading this through BaconIceCream.com you can get there through the "Convention Coverage" link on the right and if you are reading this natively on Blogger you can get there by visiting www.perfectscorepodcast.com

Expect more on these shows as we get closer and are gearing up for them.

DIABOLIK

First post of today

Diabolik here with his first opportunity to breathe in nearly 3 weeks. I had previously posted a rant of sorts regarding a bunch of shows that I had recently watched and I am back with a few more.

30 Rock - I ended up finding this show because of an article comparing Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip to 30 Rock. The article had stated that 30 Rock and Studio 60 both covered the same genre but 30 Rock did it better. I like 30 Rock, I love the character Alec Baldwin plays, but I think Studio 60 was a much better written show and it wasn't intended to be a comedy, but be a comedic drama about a the cast of a sketch comedy show. 30 Rock is a comedy about the cast of a sketch comedy show. I prefer Aaron Sorkin's writing style on Studio 60 to 30 Rock's odd quirky character writings. I have yet to see any of the 3rd Season of 30 Rock but I do look forward to watching it. If you watch the season in a large clump I think you appreciate the characters a little more than if you are to wait to watch them on a weekly basis.

My Own Worst Enemy - I have been chomping at the bit to watch this show since I heard about it. I love Christian Slater as an actor and I own just about everything that he has performed in. Hell I have a DVD copy of Gleaming the Cube in my portable DVD player right now. This show was a little clunky to get off the ground, but I think it was executed very well and I look forward to this week's episode. People should definitely check it out if they liked Alias or other spy-like shows.

Life - I had watched most of teh first season of Life on NBC's streaming website and I was hoping that it would be brought back for another season. I just finished watching the first 3 episodes of the 2nd Season and it did not disappoint. Charlie Cruise's quirky demeanor and quest to uncover the conspiracy against him keep me wanting to see the next episode.

Grey's Anatomy - I was watching the 2 hour special season premiere of this show last weekend with my girlfriend. She had not seen a single episode of the show and I have seen every episode of the show but she still got into it from the start without needing to ask a bunch of questions about what was going on. I think that is a good testament to the start of a season, if you can get someone to enjoy watching the show even if they never watched a single episode before. Unfortunately we did not get to finish the episode and I have it saved so that we can finish it and watch the next 2 episodes the next time we have time together.

Venture Bros - I can't remember if I talked about this show on my other post, and i am too lazy to go and look to see, so I will talk about it here anyway. UI had seen 1 Episode with Keith, and it happened to be the episode that starts in the middle of a story like it is continuation of another episode, and I was really thrown off. But now having watched all of Seasons 1 & 2 and the start of 3 all I can say is "The creators of this show are either geniuses or complete and total morons. I can't decide on which..."


That is all of the TV stuff that I have to talk about today. More stuff to come later....

DIABOLIK

Testing the Grazr feed

It is 10:45am and I want to see when the grazr feed picks up this post.