Monkey vs. Lemur

I posted this over on the Geeks and Gamers site, too, so if you've read it there forgive me for the cross-post...

Yeah, yeah. You know me and my weird taste in comics. So it was only fitting that I bought "Monkey in a Wagon vs. Lemur on a Big Wheel: Crisis with Infinite Critters." I highly recommend it.

It is hilarious! A lot of it is done sans writing, so it's a lot of visual gags a la silent films, etc. And its amusing to see the way they repeat the same fight between Monkey and Lemur over and over in different settings.

Look for references to a bunch of stuff, including Star Wars, other popular comics and more. Lots of subtle humor!

Monkey vs. Lemur at Silent Devil

Atomic Zombie Risk

I spoiled myself a bit since I had some unexpected money come in recently. I bought a copy of the classic global domination game Risk, as well as a Bag O' Zombies and some skull counters. All that combined makes for a rather fancy-looking set with which to play Atomic Zombie Risk. So, if you're going to be up around Meredith next Saturday and want to play, I'll be running Atomic Zombie Risk at Geeks and Gamers. You can find the rules for the zombies at the Geeks and Gamers site. Hopefully I'll see you there!

WTF?!

Bush wants OB/GYNs to "practice their love with women." Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew. Dirty.

Watch the video on Google

Meme in D minor (Saddest of All Keys)

Stolen from fossilapostle[Unknown site tag], it's the FAVORITE TYPES OF SONGS MEME THING!

1. Favorite Beatles song: "In My Life"
2. Favorite Rolling Stones song: "Paint It, Black"
3. Favorite Doors song: "When The Music's Over"
4. Favorite Bob Dylan song: can't say I really have one
5. Favorite Led Zeppelin song: "Song Remains The Same"
6. TV Theme Song: theme from The Tick (animated)
7. Favorite Prince Song: "When Doves Cry"
8. Favorite Madonna Song: "Lucky Star"
9. Favorite Michael Jackson Song: "Working Day and Night"
10. Favorite Queen Song: "Spread Your Wings"
11. Favorite Motorhead Song: "Ace of Spades"
12. Favorite Ozzy Song: "Goodbye To Romance"
13. Favorite Public Enemy Song: can't really think of one that sticks out
14. Favorite Song from a cartoon: the Doom Song from Invader Zim
15. Favorite Bruce Springsteen song: "Badlands" (unless I can count Manfred Mann's version of "Blinded By The Light")
16. Favorite Depeche Mode song: "Break The Silence"
17. Favorite Cure song: "Friday I'm In Love"
18. Favorite song that most of your friends haven't heard: "Whoever You Are" by Geggy Tah
19. Favorite Smiths song: again, drawing a blank
20. Favorite Beastie Boys song: "No Sleep Til Brooklyn"
21. Favorite Clash song: "Lost In The Supermarket"
22. Favorite Police song: "Walking On The Moon"
23. Favorite Eurythmics song: "Sweet Dreams"
24. Favorite Beach Boys song: "Warmth Of The Sun"
25. Favorite Cyndi Lauper song: "All Through The Night"
26. Favorite song from a movie: "What Shall We Do Now?" (extended version of "Empty Spaces") from The Wall
27. Favorite Duran Duran song: "Girls On Film"
28. Favorite Peter Tosh song: Nope. Nothing.
29. Favorite Johnny Cash song: "A Boy Named Sue"
30. Favorite song from an 80's one hit wonder: "Take On Me" by A-Ha
31. Favorite song from a video game: Legend of Zelda theme
32. Favorite Kinks song: "You Really Got Me"
33. Favorite Genesis song: "Firth Of Fifth"
34. Favorite Thin Lizzy song: "The Boys Are Back In Town"
35. Favorite INXS song: "Mediate"
36. Favorite Weird Al song "Eat It"
37. Favorite Peter Gabriel song: "Games Without Frontiers"
38. Favorite John Lennon song: "Imagine"
39. Favorite Pink Floyd song: "Astronomy Domine" (particularly the live version from Ummagumma)
40. Favorite cover song: "I Will Survive" by Cake
41. Favorite White Stripes: "Seven Nation Army"
42. Favorite dance song: "Bidibodi Bidibu", by Bubbles
43. Favorite U2 song: "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
44. Favorite song from an actor turned musician: "Jesse's Girl" by Rick Springfield
45. Favorite disco song: "Night Fever" by The Bee Gees
46. Favorite Power Ballad: "Wait" by White Lion
47. Favorite Guns N' Roses song: "Civil War"
48. Favorite The Who song: "Amazing Journey"
49. Favorite Elton John song: "Funeral For A Friend"
50. Favorite song, period: I can never pick one of these, but I've been real partial to Dream Theater's "Misunderstood" as of late since I feel it really describes how I feel about life in general, but then again, ask me another day and...

Serious Update Now

Okay, suddenly I posted a bunch of stuff, so I feel obliged to give an earnest update rather than fun fluff. Here goes:

The move is going well. Tomorrow we cease our residency in New Hampton and begin residing in Ellsworth. We'll be raising the population by more than 2%. Yes, that's correct. The population is less than 100 and our back yard is the White Mountain National Forest. Good times will be had for sure. The move is wearing on me but fortunately we have some unexpected help tomorrow and then the easy part: unpacking. My back is very sore and I am quite tired, but I was very happy to have a nice break today by running the store for Ray. Who would have thought work would constitute a break!

Work is going well. I still enjoy my job and career, so that's good. I have a promising potential supplemental job on the horizon. We'll see how it pans out. Same work, different place. Both jobs at the same time. Perhaps one will pan out into a full-time with benefits, but if not I have my plans for that, too. It's really one of those points in life where I understand Robert Frost's point, to reference a cliche poem abused by corporate types.

One issue nagging me with our move is that while we're helping friends and they're helping us, I'm sacrificing a good deal of privacy. This always has me unsettled because I'm a very private and introverted person. I enjoy alone time when I can find some inner peace, enjoy some of the few things I keep in life and explore some of my mental and emotional aspects I rarely or never let others see, some not even Kathy. It scares me to know I may not have the privacy I desparately feel I need for an indefinite time. Perhaps I don't really need it and that's something this move will show me. Perhaps its time to be more open or at least less guarded or isolationist.

John Donne, Meditation XVII (excerpt)
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

I've been obsessed with that passage for years, ever since reading it in junior high at the beginning of Hemingway's "For Whom The Bell Tolls." Perhaps it might truly bear meaning in the days, weeks, months or years to come.

I haven't had much time for myself, but in what little spare time I've had I've found myself reading more comics and graphic novels, playing new games and old favorites with Ray and others and enjoying some catching up on Doctor Who classics (thanks Ray!). We've been exposing Melanie to the Trial of a Timelord season so that's been fun.

Well, back to the move. More to come once we get settled in and have Internet access again.