I have not updated this mother in over two years! Honestly I was planning to a few months ago but then I realized, hey, it's only a week until the second anniversary, why not hold off? And then I remembered that because CMU is a jerk school it would be another month until I had the chance. Anyway, this journal shall now be updated from time to time so that while I stalk a few artists on this website I don't feel like a total creeper. No, a minor creeper is fine by me. So here is what I like:

8-bit Mega Man 7 remake: [link] (download from "ver.final 2" at the top of the screen)
It's what I've been spending my freetime doing lately. Editing the graphics in MSPaint (which you may have noticed is all I've ever learned to use) is an additional hobby I adopted this morning; at the moment Megaman is a black-and-white fellow who swears whenever he teleports. But more importantly, the game is a lot more fun than it is on the SNES (well, okay, scientifically I can only be sure it's better than the PS2 rerelease - for all my ranting about the SNES's superiority I never had MM7 on it)

Nippon Ichi video games. Been playing Soul Nomad when I have a free afternoon (I'm on hour twenty, playing since August), and it's tremendous fun micromanaging your army. I'm a little disappointed by the absence of Zetta cameos, but I guess I'm biased since Makai Kingdom was the first one I played.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. I've had this book for about half a year now, at least, and it's a totally hellish slog, and yet the most transcendentally hilariously awesomely ridiculous novels I've ever read. On the other hand, up until finding this book I was illiterate, so take that with a grain of salt.

Barack Obama's candidacy.

Girls. Seriously, they're the cutest, huh? I'm not so good at getting them to reciprocate though, which is unfortunate because without girls, whose blood will I use to summon the dark lord Korrok?

Now that I mention Korrok, here's old news for things I like: John Dies at the End. The book itself is offline for good now (lucky I got both print editions), but it looks like they're finally putting new stuff up, like the current article on how a photograph of Captain Kirk holding a dick proves that God does not have eyelids, by corollary. It's pretty cool. johndiesattheend.com

Fiddling. My blue violin is sexy. I don't know how to italicize things in this applet, so just pretend I italicized the word "sexy."

Dicks.

Eighties diva pop. Goonies R Good Enough and I'm a Material Girl. I'm working on covers, don't laugh at me.

I've been slowly joining the Pittsburgh indie music scene and fighting crime as El Libro Fuerte, muscletacular and dashingly handsome luchador (myspace.com/ellibrofuerte). Recording is hard though so there's nothing online yet. If you want good music online check out Mustache Required, at myspace.com/mustacherequired of course.

Incidentally, if you think I'm stupid for writing all this even though no one will ever read it... think about what you've just done. Also you're not the boss of me; don't tell me what to do.