August 03, 2008

Cool way to burn a few hours

I remembered hearing something about Joystix a month or so ago but never really knew what it was until Friday. Blake and I were heading into Houston to meet with my contractor, pick up some stuff from my house there and then head on to Victoria Saturday.

As we were approaching Houston, I got a call from Tony D who invited us to check out this cool place he had heard about. The deal is that they have roughly 200 classic and modern video games in a gameroom downtown. For $15 you can play all night (9PM - 2AM roughly) for free. All the games are set for free play - hit the start button and soon you are off to gobble dots in Pac Man, create culinary treats in Burger Time or Root Beer Tapper, or save the universe from invaders in a host of games.

Just inside the door, our first stop was "Time Crisis" the buddy guy genre shoot em up. It is the first time I went all the way through the game as back in the day I would run out of quarters long before the story ended.

QUESTION: I posted the images to my brightkite account, but didn't have Joytix placemarked (I have since discovered it is already on there.) Does anyone know how to move a post from one location to another at brightkite?

Posted by CDogg at 07:35 AM | Comments (0)

May 11, 2008

Escapism - good and bad

I haven't watched wrestling (or sports entertainment as it is referred to now) in years. Recently I added the entire lineup of television wrestling to my TiVo in an effort to see if it had gotten any better over the years.

I used to like ECW before it was owned by WWE because it was the start of the whole hardcore style. I even liked WCW during the big battles with them and WWE - during the Goldberg era.

So far, I have seen one of each show and have a first impression of each.

WWE - as disappointing as ever. William Regal as the manager is not only boring, but the wrestling is horrible.

TNA - clearly the class of current wrestling promotions. One name - Curry Man. This guy who is one of the most popular wrestlers in Japan is a hoot to watch. Forget the wrestling - his ring entry will make you laugh out loud.

How can you not love someone like that?

At the end of the day however, TNA is a lot more exciting than all the other shows. The talent works harder, the stunts are more impressive, and the storylines are slightly less stupid than all the others.

If a better promotion, more action, and fun characters weren't enough - I could watch Velvet Sky (Talia Madison) all day. (She's the one on the right)

She has a sort of bad girl Amanda Bynes thing going on.

Sure, its not Shakespeare, but Bill was considered the trashy entertainment of his day as well. As pure escapism, its a blast.

Posted by CDogg at 05:20 PM | Comments (1)