the picture Par posted for me is for all those scona grads.
i saw it and had to share.

From Pam:

United States of NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Buy more toys kids!!

To paraphrase a recent popular movie,
It couldn't be! They were dead! I felt it! They were dead!

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

DOOMY ART: Jason Jågel Art installation

Paras: clearly that movie was flawless. I don't know what you're talking about.

Haha. Absolutely flawless.

Andy, I was just perusing 1UP's reviews of some of the potential candidates for geek night, and I noticed something both amusing and disturbing.

In previews for games, such as this for Teen Titans, they have a bit of a comments section. A section that encourages you to "Write your own hype!" Huh?

Doesn't 'hype' (or, perhaps a better question is "Didn't 'hype'") have a negative connotation? Isn't hype generally undeserved or excessive promotion and attention for a product? Wasn't it a word we used to cynically describe over-the-top marketing for and overexposure to a game, movie, artist, tv show, etc.?

It reminds me of "Spin Alley" from the US presidential debates. (Or, as Jon Stewart put it, "Deception Lane"); where they normalized an otherwise negative phenomenon of spin by making it part of the structure around the debates. The "Write your own hype" thing reminds me of "Spin Alley", I guess, because it's amusing that it's come down to this, but disturbing that something we were cynical about is just accepted now, to the point that we write our own marketing to market to ourselves.

I apologize in advance:

Store Wars

can't stand the HEAT? get outta tha paint!! D. Wade shoots like 7 for 25 and the Pistons take game one. looks like tha little guy still has some work to do before he becomes the next Kobe.

for..Jere? Clarky? The Raveonettes: Black Sessions (Bootleg) this link also features the Jesus And Mary Chain - My Girl (from JAMC's Peel Sessions)