Looks like another soggy Halloween. Poor kids are gonna have a horrible time Trick'R'Treating in this. I think there are 3 days of the year it should be forbidden to rain: Halloween, Christmas, and Canada Day.
*Also the Marijuana March for those inbibed.

It's the worst when you're a kid; one time I dressed up as a robot or something and all the cardboard fell apart. It's just not as festive with peoples' decorations keeling over, pumpkins going unlit, and only half as many candy-hunters running through puddles toting umbrellas and galoshes.

Even a scary dark coat looks silly when it's made of rubber.

Not to mention poor pubescent Pete; he wanted to take his highschool sweetie to the cemetary for some hot grave action and now she's got a perfect excuse not to go: "I don't want to lie on the wet grass." ***k-blocked!

FYI, this video is hilarious. Avril Lavigne teaches safe sex 70s $tyle.

I bet the Exorcist Demons and the Michael Myers of the world take one look outside and say "Gee, it's just not as scary in a yellow raincoat, I guess I'll take this year off." OH: Maybe that's why "Halloween 2" came out in August!

Speaking of which, if Jason Voorhes only attacks on Friday October the 13th, why the heck are there so many kids at summer camp in the middle of October?

I guess the only Halloweeners undetered by the morbid weather are Linus and Sally, eagerly awaiting their glorious gourdly deity in all his imaginary splendor.

Oh, and on a show-that-will-not-be named they had the freakiest Obama mask; It haunts my dreams now. Who would want to dress up as a political leader for Halloween?

AHHH!! Grinning glossy-eyed madness! Take it away, take it away!

Anyways, Happy Halloween!

-*wakes up in a soggy pillow* ... Gwaaa? *trash can is full* What happened last night..? *shoes on top of TV* whua...? *slightly hungover* ... Oh yeah..

Protip: Don't watch the movie Spun and drink any small amount of alcohol. The screen keeps flashing and zooming and spinning* and there's carton pigs and adult content and warped sound FX and Britanny Murphy and... oh, now my head's spinning*. I was very ill and now I don't feel well. Also peckish.
*But not spunning.

I still can't figure out why the protagonist leaves a poor naked woman chained to his bed for a week. .. I mean he's not being cruel, he just does it*. I guess the message is: Don't do anphetamines.
*It's alrite, Debby Harry rescues her.

-Greek starts up again tonight. I'm not as excited because the cliffhangers weren't so awesome: Cappie is being forced to date Cassie, and Rusty (who just stole somebody's GF) is all ready making up excuses to dump her. Oh and Frannie left, Evan is nice, leaving the show without any villains.

-Shows you should watch in your lifetime. (They left off Cheers and 3rd Rock from the Sun.)

*vaguely remembers some people walking next to a river with flashlights* .... Night fishing? I think I told them all humans are dust waiting to happen. Or maybe I just thought it.

-Oh, I saw Halloween 2 the other day and I liked it. I wrote a really indepth review but that's not really bloggish so it'll go on Moviespot.

-Martin Streek committed suicide last week. He was the late-night radio DJ at The Edge where he worked for the past 23 years; about half his life. He was fired without warning, no explanation given to the listeners. I guess the depression took over and he killed himself. It's very sad.

It must've been horrible because his Sunday Retro Nights are now being hosted by this ditzy chick that wouldn't know New Rock from ElectroPop if it.. uh, hit her in the head. I can picture him in his last weeks sitting there, listening to her screw up his gig and thinking "WTF.." Oh, and worse still, since he died the station is splashing his name and photo all over the place as some sort of memorial "to pay tribute", pretending like it wasn't their fault brought on by greed and no sense of employer-loyalty, just doing their best not to lose listeners. ...

-On TV.com I can see blogs from 2006 and this blog right here. On Gamespot I can see last blogs but not this one. For a moment I thought somebody hijacked my account and deleted everything. Scary.

-Anybody looking for a scary movie should watch "Sleepaway Camp". The ending is still making me creeped.

"When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown,
The dream is gone.
But I have become comfortably numb."

Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd.


I've gone through all my old blogs and posted my stories here and here for anyone interested. And apparently my blogs are wayy too long because my eyes just fell out. There is 10 stories, 6 are done and 4 I meant to continue but didn't.

Did you know I haven't posted any stories on TV.com since Miss Hoffman passed away back in 2007? It's true and has me perplexed. I think I've written some stories since then, so I'm not sure why I didn't post. I'll have to go find them on the old harddrive

Come on, Feel the noise - Quiet Riot

-There's been a lot of news about a poor abducted girl. It's very sad. Unfortunately I watched 'Otis' the other day and now I know some of the strange things an abducter might do to a hostage.
Kim: He didn't rape me; we mostly danced to Blue Oyster Cult.

-Sims 3 has been pirated 2 weeks before going on sale. *spit-take* Some argue that EA is doing it for publicity, others say it's an incomplete build, and lots of people say it's broken. I was tempted to download it, but that game is like crack and I just don't have the time for it. ... Oh, and thievery is bad.

What I don't understand is the complainers who call it inferior, spastic, not finished, bad, broken, doubleplussungood.. Are the thieves in a position to judge someone else's hard work? It seems .. ungrateful. It's like:
Complainers: Hey EA, we stole your game, now we're gonna tell you how much we hate it before you can even sell your first copy. Aren't we poncy?

TV news:
-Smallville, SPOILER ALERT, it sucked. This season was building up for an awesome finale and they fumbled the ball at the last second. Now I gotta change my banner because "Henry" Olsen is retconned out of logic.

-I know a user pointed out that 90210 is retarded, but it's still entertaining. And most of the actors are my age, in their twenties. (One guy is even 30 with his character at 17!) The finale was a blast, I won't ruin the surprises, but the cliff-hanger is ... hangery.

-Apparently TV.com wants to kill Disco Stu, Meg Griffin, and implied Lisa Simpson.

-I can't tell if Greek got rid of their character yet because 2 characters have disappeared into the ether and it might've been 1 of them. (Or get rid of both, neither would be missed.)

-Normally I'm a fan of South Park, but this season is disturbing. I guess they're trying to get cancelled..?

Well, it's April. You know what that means? *puts away winter clothes, gets out bike* Springtime! *starts snowing* .... Oh yeah!? *puts away spring clothes, gets out winter coat* *walks outside* Now whose laughing!!! *tiny pieces of ice start to cut face* Me. That's who. I am laughing.

I guess April snowfall brings May dead-flowers. See this cat? *points out tiny black kitten with green eyes* I always see her when I go out, sitting in a pile of garbage next to an appartment building. I think she's a stray, no collar. *feeds her pieces of energy bar* I'd like to take her in, but I have bad luck with animals. There's like a million things she could easily choke on. *pets cat and walks away*

*Walks out of Zellers* I just returned a pair of silly pants that I'd worn for 15 hours & didn't like. $30 back to me. But I can't return this sunscreen I've never used because it was already open when I bought it. Contaminants. .. Still, it's odd if you consider both at once: Used full return; unused no return.

*Walks into Canadian tire* This lady just told me I can't bring my backpack inside and need to leave it with her. She got really offended when I took everything out because I thought she'd steal my stuff. I don't know why she's upset, she just called me a potential thief; Why can't I do the same?
*I always have trouble at Canadian Tire. It's like they can smell my rookiness.

*holds up 2 bottles of ketchup* These are both $2.99. This one is 750ML and this one 1L, but same price. Know the difference? *puts 1 bottle upside-down* Ah. You get half the volume because the design is different. That makes (no) sense.

*walking home* It's dark, but no worries. This city is so tame. The only "thieves" are teens with plastic-knives and play-guns. I'm probably more threatening with a bottle of ketchup in an e-friendly bag. *holds up cloth bag dangerously*

*2 hours later, the stray cat is still there* *cat tries to follow me home* Sorry kitty! Go back! I don't want to call the RCPCA because they'll just put her to sleep. *sad*

*hands you a hamburger* Tasty, eh? I haven't had these in a while. Beef, Pickles, Mustard, Mayonaise, Ketchup, Hot Sauce, Hot Peppers, Onions, all on a Kaiser bun with orange cheese. Enjoy!

TV news:
-Greek is back, apparently one of the cast is leaving but IDK who yet. (I'll wait and see. Could be Cappie?)
-They cancelled Frisky Dingo, funniest cartoon since the original Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show. I still haven't seen Xticles but I'm sure it's also gold.
-Smallville is getting pretty interesting. Doomsday and Mercy.
-I SWEAR The Simpsons are funny again. I'm not sure how it happened, it's like they care now!

Today has been very heart-wrenching. It's the day Ms. Hoffman passed away and it's very saddening, but she's in a better place. (There was also an incident with a cute fuzzy cat which isn't relevant, just adds to the sadness.) So I'm sitting here, feeling glum and thinking about the past.

Let's take a Moment of Silence and reflect.

Sleeping Sun

I made up a Brain puzzle. I know it's too complicated because nobody has solved it yet; but therein lies the challenge. Anyways, you're welcome to try:

A man needs to cross a river. He has 6 things to bring across:
-a baby
-a craddle
-a large bag of money
-a wolf
-a caged bird
-and a dead fish for supper

He has a boat, but it has several holes and will sink if it's overloaded. The man can carry upto 2 objects on each trip. He can bring objects back to the first side if necessary*.
*It's neccessary.

The rules:
1: The baby cannot be left alone unless it's in the craddle.
2: The money is heavy and counts as 2 objects.
3: The money is safe on this side, but will be stolen if left on the far side.
4: And the money is safe when the wolf protects it.
5: The bird and the wolf can be left on the same side for 2 trips (go there, come back). But any longer and the wolf will eat the bird. If you move the bird and/or the wolf then this count resets and they can be left together for another 2 trips.
6: The wolf can't be left with the baby* or the fish because he will eat it.
*Sorry! I know it's not cool but it makes sense!

How can the man get everything across?

-Stupid moment of the week: I was adding Allusions to my favourite new show, but one of them came back rejected.
***SPOILER***

-Yea, my new favourite show is 'Greek'. I've never seen a single episode before, and now I've watched all 1.5 seasons. As an added bonus, Charisma Carpenter showed up a few times!

I'm fascinated with Greek culture. The drinking, the womanizing, the parties.. it just seems like fun. Up here in the Frozen-Land, we don't have Frats. Well, there are 1 or 2 in Toronto. But for the most part our "Frat persona" live all across campus, instead of living together in one spot.

-Speaking of societies built on juvenile practices: Encyclopedia Dramatica. At first I thought it was cool, a Wikipedia that lets you curse, dagnabit. But I've explored it now, and most pages includes racism, the truth according to who?, enough e-references to blind any internet user, and an alarmingly number of nudie shots. *covers eyes*. A couple of weeks ago I added an image without linking it to a page, and nobody has deleted it yet! Wikipedia would never allow such madness!

Even TV.com has a page; but it's not pretty. Apparently we're a bunch of National Socialists and several racial slurs as well. I don't know who Down-Syndrome Sue is, but she's a terrible mascot! I would have gone with "The Mongooses"; that's a cool team mascot. The Fighting Mongoose!

OR

Conundrum: If I fix our page, it would be "trolling", because Dramatica is a trolling website where "fixing" means to troll. Everything is reversed, it's Bizzaro-world. But if I leave it.. .. uh, it looks bad. .. But since the only people who ever read it are Dramatica users, should it matter what it says? *muses*

It struck me that there are 2 kinds of people. Those that think New Year's is a huge party, and those that realize an arbitruary date on a calendar isn't technically a reason to throw a party and will go at great lengths to kill the first people's party by explaining this repeatedly ad nauseum; Zaphod Beeblebrox vs Marvin the android.

.. But you could make the same argument for all holidays, which would be the death of parties. The alcohol, Hallmark, tassles*, and funny-party-hats industry would each collapse; well maybe not alcohol, but it would lose a lot of money.
*Haha, frivolous.

New Year's song; seems appropriate to me. Edvard Grieg and the songs spawned from his work always put me in the right mood. This one is Cello-Metal.

Resolutions.. hmm...

I got a new editorship a while back. (points at avatar) That guy. It's weird because I haven't contributed to that show in nearly 2 years now. I'm not sure what happened to Odino_.

I'm spending the day reformatting my computer, so hopefully it will work faster. Optimistically.

(checks last blog date) .. Cripes, been a while. Life has become really dull and I guess I've run out of things to say about it. And.. the new design aren't helping.

It's Christmas around here, but it doesn't really feel like it. Lack of holiday cheer. We had a really wicked snowstorm yesterday. I had to walk uphill against it; but it was a lot smoother coming back with it.

Remember that youTube channel I was talking about last time? The most wicked, awesome, probably funniest thing on the entire site with 18 pages of videos? Some assh*le reported it and the account's gone. I was literally watching one video and when I went to the next one the account was suspended.

So now I watch BTVS when I come home. Did you know I haven't watched a single episode since 2006? Not once when I was at College. Anyway, watching it online with Japanese subtitles and some of the episodes are missing, or missing parts. Those last two are frustrating.

For instance, I just watched one episode with good Angel and Spike walking around. A few eps are missing and now it's evil Angelius and Spike is paralyzed. The rest of the season is gone so I miss the one where Angel gets killed and Spike can walk again.
*The difference between Angel and Angelius: Eye-shadow.

-Guinea Pirate.

-The very best YouTube channel: Yilanos. It's clips from a Canadian music show that puts 5 comedians or radio DJs in a black room where they make fun of new and old cheezy music videos from "artists" like Britney Spears, Fergie Fergie, Justin Timberlake, Madonna, MCR, Rihanna, etc. ie; Marilyn Manson's 'The Dope Show'. The show is very awesome.

-Some new words I learnt:
--Speculatively. When I'm not sure about something, I will talk about it speculatively.
--Engender. To generate interest in something boring. Very, very boring.
--Dosh. Rhymes with Josh. Apparently it means "money".

-Y'know what the weather's doing? The leaves are still falling and it's really warm in the mornings. By the afternoon it starts snowing but it's gone as soon as it stops. Cummon Canada, it's November*. Snow already!
*Global warming.

-This is the first time in my life that I'm going to have to walk a kilometre to get grocceries. It's going to be an exciting hike when it starts snowing properly. At least I'll lose a few.
*I won't take the bus for 2 reasons: The route doesn't go that way, and it costs $6 for a there-and-back.

It's sad, but true. I have turned into a Zombie. A boring, predictable, not-flesh-eating zombie*. Now I'm just another adult who does the 9-5, comes home from work pooped and falls asleep in an easy-boy listening to music-afficinado Allan Cross ramble about stuff.
*Do hamburgers count?

It's ironic; I've been trained my whole life to fight the living dead who roam the earth, seeking out new victims to convert to their hoard. And now I have become my most feared and hated enemy. The prophecy has come true.

(this is a picture of a Zombie with a mohawk.
Trust me, it looks awesome.)

I don't actually have a Mohawk. I've never had a Mohawk. I wish I had grown one because they look sick. But now that I'm all-growed up, I can't because of work.

Why didn't I do it in College? I was afraid of what the teachers'd think. So why didn't I do it before? The fast-food restaurant wouldn't let me have stubble on my face; a Mohawk would've been grounds for immediate firing of my a$$.

Joe Strummer of the Clash had a mohawk. So did the guy in SLC Punk. Robert DeNiro in Taxi Driver. If I wanted, I could be the most polite, hardcore, bad-a$$ Canadian punk: a GTA Punk. I'd get long chains and torn pants and big army boots and a worn-out leather jacket covered in metal spikes and tiny buttons side-by-side with obscure Anarchist slogans kept in place with safety pins. And a dog collar. But it's not just about the clothes: you gotta act like a punk too. Vandalism and unexpected stuff. London calling. Taunt authority; F*** authority.

I wish I had a job that would let me be a punk. But on the other hand, how many people* can say they turned a hobby like building websites to impress the girl down the street into an actual career?
*42

Punk or not, at least I know what I'm going to be for Halloween.
*Random aside: Halloween has given me super-strength and ultra-courage. Today I am THE HULK! Grrrrrrr.

I meant to post this yesterday, but after I got home from Election Day I was just so tuckered out I fell right to sleep. It probably would've made more sense BEFORE they announced the winners. Oh well, here goes:

It's that time of the year again! Canadians, time to pull yourself kicking and screaming to the polling booths.

You get to stand in line for 30 minutes before being handed what is now* a highly contagious #2 pencil and ushered like a farm animal into a tiny cardboard house where you get to pick which candidate you believe is most qualified to ruin the country for the next political year.
*Flu season. Hundreds of proletarians have handled this pencil before you. Hello germs!

Fortunately, just like our money, Canada has our teams color-coded:
Blue and Red: Team French. Their only votes come from Quebec and Sudbury.
Orange: Run by Dr. Phil clone.
Almost Pink: Their slogan: 'We didn't completely screw up, right? Cummon!'
Red: Canadian Communists. Go figure?
Just Blue:
Crimson: Team Jesus. The Catholics believe that church and state should be one unholy beast.
Green: aka Team Feel Good. The Bill and Ted of politics. The least propaganda party; probably because they have $0 and a lot of weed.

*If I had a dollar everytime I heard somebody say Harpernomics in the past week... I could save the economy.
**I was kind-of worried that there would be 3 more weeks of propaganda ads on the radio, but it seems I was wrong.

Here is the skinny: We get to vote, so we can pick who runs our country. But, we have no control over what they do, and they never have to answer for their mistakes. It's like a c0ck-fight; you can buy the rooster, but you aren't in charge of it's actions. You can't make it do anything it doesn't want to.

Official theme song of Canada election 08
*It's not Celeine Dion; it's Bonnie Tyler.

-Wow, Friday hasn't come soon enough for me. I have just been wishing, and hoping, and thinking, and praying*, and now it's finally here!
*I had to google this lyrics, but I have no idea why I know this song. .. Weird..

(calendar is clearly marked Thursday) .. ahem! (knocks calendar off the desk into the trash bin). Yes, it is definitely Friday! Thank Fsm it's friday! Or as an acronym: TFSMIF

So now it's officially Thanksgiving! We got turkey, sweet stuffing, cranberry stuff, turkey, rolled-buns; oh they're kind-of stale; white sparkling wine in fancy China glasses, and angel-food cake for desert! Thanksgiving is about 3 things: Food, Family, and Cindy Crawford:

-Gamers watch this for a laugh

-Do you believe I haven't seen Halloween before? So, I'm gonna watch that sometime this weekend.

-American friends! Come north for the weekend, then you get two holidays!

-I've been wracking my brain for a few months, trying to think up a new banner and icons. .. I'm supposed to be "so creative", but I'm completely flumuxed. I need brain drinks.

-Looks like we won. As the British would say; Huzzah!

-I had something important I was gonna mention.. hmm... I lost it, oh well.

-I met some really strange people yesterday. Unpleasant, for sure. With any luck, I'll never see them again.

1: The new colors are blinding. My monitor is very bright, and the grey text over the white background is half visible and difficult to read. The Fuschia, the Yellow-on-Blue, the baby blue, these are inappropriate colors*. The blog color default is grey; half-visible on Tv.com; but if we change the to black then it means our blog is invisible on Gamespot.com.
*The majority of your users are over the age of 20. Do you really think they want to stare at these kiddie tones for hours on end?

I think some of the colors should be replaced, or at least toned down to a darker hue.

2. When viewing comments, each comment is timestamped with the day the user signed up to Tv.com. That is errenous data and doesn't need to be shown on every single comment. It's placed above the comment and the comment's timestamp, suggesting the Join Date is even more important than the comment itself.

The Join Date timestamp should be removed. The profile already lists this date, and that is enough.

3: This is an editor-only problem: The Queue button is really small and difficult to spot. When it's selected, it turns from Navy Blue to Crimson. The difference is barely noticable, and easy to miss unless you're looking for it. If the Moderators don't realize they have items in the Queue, it slows down the Moderation process.

The button needs to be bigger, in-your-face. The Selected button needs a brighter red.

4. There are several problems with the main profile page. The 'Last Online', and 'Level-up Pie Chart' features have been removed. You can only see 4 or your friend's latest blog titles. 'My Favourite Tv Show' and 'Star' is a difficult to control feature with a slanted logic. There are several dead emblems on each profile, these should've been removed during changeover.

I think the removed features should return in some form, and these erratic features should be easier to control or removed entirely. Or in the case of the emblems, you should remove the dead icon links.

5: The new adspace is intrusive, flashing, distracting, and I find the ads annoying. I realize that's the entire point of advertisements, but these new ads take away from the Tv.com experience, and I feel completely unmotivated to follow them anywhere.

I think the ads could be a bit smaller, and preferably less flashy.

-I am not going to be here for the next 24 hours in support of the boycott of the new Tv.com design implemented by CBS.

*I had something really funny written out for this blog, but .. (shrugs) .. Like Red says: KISDA. .. Given the circumstances, I guess humor isn't really appropriate anyway.

**RL: Today sucked.
But what can you do?

CBS recently bought Tv.com, and I guess their first order of business was to redesign everything. Anyone whose been a user for more than a month knows that. And anybody with vision can see that it looks really bad.
*As a web designer, I tried to give the site's designers the benefit of the doubt. They might be inexperienced, or CBS forced them to make something this ugly, etc. But still; it's really bad.

The new site has got LOTS of glitches, random unnessecary stuff, and the design isn't very good. Worst of all, the owners have done so with a complete disregard for the user-site amiability, and have ignored our opinions.

So in protest, we the users of Tv.com are having a 24-hour boycott.
September 30th is 'Blackout Day'.

From midnight to midnight, we are NOT going to use Tv.com. Don't login, don't post blogs, don't post in the forums, don't blop, don't nothing. Complete avoidance; like that unpleasant one-night-stand with the buxom secretary, when you hid under your desk for a week.

We're hoping that the owners will realize that we the users are unhappy. Without the users, the site doesn't have a leg to stand on. And if they don't fix things, then they might not have a site anymore. Which would suck, because behind the graphics and the glitchiness, this site is awesome. So hopefully the owners will smarten up.

Rage against the machine

And the day after the boycott: the users will return with a list of 5 things about the site that need to be changed AQAP, which gets posted in their blog.

You can read all the details and updates on Sir Glenn's blog:
Glen11523

-It looks like they web designed TV.com again. I wouldn't call it an improvement; but it's so easy to critize somebody else's work. So instead of being negative, I'll just point out some things that are bothering me:

^ Why is my icon all stretchy and huge up there? And where did my signature-pic go?

-Apparently, my favourite person is Juliet Landau. I don't know what system they pulled that out of.
*Those in the know know that she's Drusilla from Buffy/Angel. A remarkable character, but all-in-all a minor.

-Blog pics are invisible unless you go into the entry.

-The background is white, but the text is lt-grey. Anything except black or dk-grey is hard to read over white. Some of the blues are nice, but some are just scary-bad.

-It feels like 2/3rds of the page is taken up by useless junk (emblems, favourite shows, ads), whereas the real info is being crushed in the middle.

-Speaking of emblems, only half of them are loading properly.

-It took me a few just to find the 'Create Blog' button. Also, won't post.

-Lifewise, I'm just waiting for Godot. (checks watch) .. he really should've been here a while ago.