Martin Luther Kang the Conqueror
Dialogue of the day
snippits, bits, things to keep written down
May 31
May 30
Ms. Pac Man and Crazy Otto (Arcade; 1981).
Do you know the story of these two? In 1981, hackers from the Bedford, Massachusetts-based General Computer Corporation modified the software in an old Pac Man arcade cabinet to make a more interesting game, which they dubbed Crazy Otto. Sensing something great, the Midway Corporation of Chicago purchased the rights to Otto later that year, modifying it into the more marketable Ms. Pac Man, which proceded to become a smash hit in U.S. arcades. Of course, the Pac Man franchise itself was actually owned by the Tokyo-based Namco cooperation, and (I believe still within the course of the same year) Midway agreed to cede control of their unauthorized spin-off back to their Japanese overlords. To this day, Ms. Pac Man remains a relatively obscure, or at least forgettable, presence in the Japanese video game canon, as opposed to the generational icon status she enjoyes in the States.
The stories of adapting and hacking videogames at their birth are fascinating. Don’t even get me started on Tetris.
May 22
Mar 14
Day 13: FFFFuuuuuuuu-
1)Volunteer at a Foodbank/Soup Kitchen (Bradford-Ewarts):
TBA
2)One Hundred Push-ups (Sean Trembath):
TBA
3)Eat a different animal every day (Adam Gordon):
Canned roasted eel in soy sauce.
You’ll have to take my word I put it on a salad for lunch because I don’t want to explain all this at work.
It was surprisingly good. More things should be canned in soy sauce. Keeps its texture better than many of the other canned fish.
(Is an eel a fish? I’m too side-pained to google it)
4) Learn a random new language (Yuka Kurokawa):
Do I still need to explain this?
5) Compliment 2 strangers every day (Lauren Lindsay):
It’s hard to compliment people when you look bad and beyond the luscious hot weather fucking with my skin I also have a side-pain related grimace at all times. So today was a failure.
I’m complimenting people more generally though.
6) Introduce yourself to a stranger every day (Ian Urbanski):
Heck no.
7) MORE DRAG NOT LESS! (Cleo):
I am tempted to wear a dress in this heat.
8) Decrease how much I sleep over a month (Ricardo Bortolon):
I am having fitful sleep sessions so right now I takes what I can gets.
9) Smell of citrus (Casey Leung):
Sure. These cutie oranges are wearing thin.
10) Read the ‘news’ section of the National Post every day (JJ McCullough):
I find myself turning into one of those people who WANTS positive news. The bleak perspective of the paper is strange and seems to throw everything out of context. I’m uncertain how people punish themselves by reading it every day without turning immediately into a member of the Red Cross or something.
The news makes you feel informed but helpless.
11)Take every thing that happens to you, good or bad, as the best thing that could possibly happen to you at that time. (Charmaine)
No thanks.
12) Say yes to every opportunity/request that comes your way like Jim Carrey does in ‘Yes Man’. (Steph Scade)
I honestly don’t think this ever came up.
13) Call people out when they’re being hetero-normative (Janine)
Ditto
How much of a better person am I?
I’m starting to wonder if I’m fit to judge myself as better or worse.
Perhaps I need a ‘Project Runway’-style panel. That Nina Garcia will keep me in line.
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
My attempt at ‘get well soon’. If I say it , it will happen to me.
Mar 12
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
This is supposed to be ‘where are you from?’. I’m starting to realize there are many different Serbian accents.
Also, my free course is running out of phrases. Basically this is a total trainwreck.
Mar 03
Jan 17
» Who is Alex Watt?: My life is stupid and embarrassing, so I think I’m going to start...
My life is stupid and embarrassing, so I think I’m going to start writing about the really lame stuff like it’s part of a cool novel.
“I can just hold it like a football,” he said as he cradled the sandwich in his long, simian arm—knocking a bottled beverage from the delicate hand of the woman…
Oct 08
Drive
Here’s my illustrated response to the movie Drive, starring Ryan Gosling. Read it on The Hairpin!
I like Ryan Gosling. I liked him in The Notebook, Half Nelson, Lars and the Real Girl, and Google Image Search. And driving around LA at night while listening to pop music is my favorite thing on Earth, so seeing Drive was a no-brainer.
WARNING: CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS
Oct 05
Hammer Glamour!
Valerie Leon in Hammer’s Blood From The Mummy’s Tomb (1971)
