You Have Been Eaten By A Grue

For those of you who are old enough to remember how completely fabulous text adventures are/were, here is

Hamlet: The Text Adventure

Yes, I’m serious.

For those of you who have now been reminded of the awesome, here’s a link to play Infocom adventures online.

Or if you just want to skip Zork and go straight to the Pure!Comedy!Win!, here’s one of my old favourites: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy TA. [ETA: Here's one that lets you save and restore your game.]

I really need to find my Starship Titanic game now. Not text-based, but oh so gloriously Douglas Adams.

What interesting and wonderful things have you found to do online lately?

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Do you ever just feel like your life is this repetitive cesspool of anger? I don’t know if that even makes sense outside of my own head, but… I don’t know. I read things that are hopeful, or aspire to hopefulness. I listen to happy music, or music that aspires to be happy. I watch TV shows that help me stop thinking about the world and the awful things that happen in it. And I still get bombarded by things that just raise my goddamn blood pressure. Usually within five minutes of waking up in the morning, this has happened at least once. Repeat as needed until I am absolutely frothing at the mouth and desperate for some way to see THAT OF GOD WITHIN everyone, when really sometimes I suspect that it’s JUST NOT THERE IN A LOT OF PEOPLE.

This is the point at which, during my normal day, I am forced into the passive aggressive act of NAPPING.

NAPPING WITH INTENSITY.

NAPPING FOR MENTAL SALVATION.

I am beginning to think that I should shove The Bush Doctrine ™ into my own life and realize that, if something is going to MAKE ME ANGRY, I have the RIGHT, NAY THE OBLIGATION as a citizen of The Free World ™ to engage in PREEMPTIVE NAPPING. CUT THE BULLSHIT OFF AT THE PASS.

OTHERWISE THE TERRORISTS WILL WIN.

Here is a picture.

Looking out, through the screen door, onto my balcony. The sky above is grey, the sky below is blue. The light, in real life, is very nice. It’s 73 degrees and a little bit breezy. Enjoy my view.

It’s almost like napping.

Profound Lack Of Interest

In Fringe.

Man, this is only its second week, and the first *new* episode [the series premiere was released like, ages ago] and it has so completely failed to capture my interest.

And it should have been easy, since I’m an Alias fan with a shameless habit of watching Dawson’s Creek reruns [yes, since you're asking, I do TiVo it].

Joshua Jackson is like some very delicious and yummy brand of bubblegum crack to me. And I have been mentally tuned out since two minutes into the first episode.

Please to be never calling this THE NEW X-FILES ever again. At least X-Files took two [debatable! 4? 5? 6? 7?] seasons to jump the shark so completely. Can a show even jump the shark when it’s only been on for two episodes?

Thanks to Fringe, I now know that the answer to that question is a resounding “yes.”

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For Your Information.

We are not having a tea party right now.

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I received a forward today about the very, very important subject of Oprah Winfrey.

It begged me to remember that she “insisted that they let her into the Superdome that reaped of
death and feces.”

Please to be remembering this: when you want to tug at my heart-strings, check your motherfucking word usage.

We’ve Always Been At War With Eastasia

I’d been thinking about damning myself into a hole and re-reading The Handmaid’s Tale, or 1984.

But then I woke up in another Orwellian nightmare [that's been happening about six or seven times a day lately] and decided I really, really couldn’t do something like that to myself.

Enough cautionary fiction has become reality. Next thing I know, I’ll wake up tomorrow and the inside of my house will be smaller than the outside.

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Let’s Play a Game

Do you ever just sit there thinking to yourself fuck this life fuck this life fuck this life and all of the incidental bullshit that comes up along the way while you are living it?

How often?

You Discover Some Great Stuff at 4:00 A.M.

This is sort of a greatest-hits compilation of the guy we found, randomly, on TV last night. The Wire ended and then…well.

This happened.

And that is why I love You Tube.

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*Strategic Eye Roll*

I thought I left highschool years and years ago.

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It’s Raining, It’s Pouring…

I made another batch of soup last night. The celery looked really awesome when I cut it. I took a picture.

But now I can’t find any of my camera cords. The battery charger or the hookup to the computer.

And that means it’s been missing for over two months.

How fun.