Finished Portal 2 today. What a great game. Both of the Portal games are fantastic. Really happy I got around to playing them both. (via Best Art Ever (This Week) - 02.17.12 - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews)
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They covered Waiting Room.
I hate iTunes. Seven hours of messing around with it to move the wife’s iTunes library to a new computer ended up failing.
Now I’m trying to find a tool clean up 8 gig worth of music with no information— no albums, no artists, nothing.
Plus, she’s lost all her playlists. I followed the guides, did everything spot on and still ended up with a crap transfer.
I hate iTunes.
Sub Focus Remix of MGMT’s Time to Pretend.
I’ve been working through my mash-up collection for the past hour. Some stinkers, some gems in there.
- Wife: AMC Georgetown is showing Ghost Rider at midnight. What?
- Me: No.
- Wife: That's why I said what? Like, that's crazy.
- Me: I don't want to be in Georgetown that late. Bad neighborhood.
Raise your hand if you are tired of hearing about whatever the hell Kate Upton is
[raises hand]
Seriously, why does any one still GAF about the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue and whatever blonde lady they have on the cover?
Kevin Smith's 'Comic Book Men' Is a Compelling Argument Against Comic Book Stores
“These are the guys that work at the shop you only go to when the store you like sells out of the comic you want, that you do your best to deal with as quickly as possible because they don’t even wait until you’re at the door before they start smirking at your purchases.”
I could not agree more with Comic Alliance’s review of Kevin Smith’s ‘Comic Book Men’ reality show.
I didn’t get into comic books as a kid because this happened to me when I was 12.
I had it pretty easy going to the comic shop.
My dad was the 2nd biggest buyer (1st bought one of everything).
They treated him, and me, very well.
I do understand this though. Some of the shop workers are some of the most overly opinionated assholes walking the earth.I should know, we can smell our own.
I’ve been into comics since I was about 11 or 12. It was the local liquor store magazine stand where I discovered my first comics and started my collection.
I later discovered a comic store about a mile a way from my house and spent many Saturday afternoons riding my bike there to pick up books. The store was called Comic Tech and the owners and workers were awesome to me. If I couldn’t afford a book, they would hold it for me till I could. When I called and asked if a book was in, they never sighed or grunted at me. They would let me browse and read for (what seemed to me) hours. The shop was clean.
They closed.
Since then, I was always looking for a new shop that was as amazing as that one and I never found it. I had owners snark on my taste in books or ignore me all together (despite having dollars in my pockets that I wanted to spend). Some places used to sneak books into my reserve stack that I didn’t order, thinking I wouldn’t notice. They all sucked. They all never came close to comic tech.
I get my books via mail order at Midtown Comics in NYC now. No clerks, no smelly stores, no attitudes. I get a fail in this department for not supporting retailers of a dying industry, but I buy more books now than I ever did in visiting a store every week and I don’t ever feel like cussing anyone out for being a jerk.
If you love comics, but hate retail, don’t sell comics. Hire someone who loves customers to run your store. Maybe we’d spend more. Maybe you wouldn’t have to close.
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If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.
Brendan Francis
I saw this on the 99% Twitter account which isn’t a political thing. Their MO is, “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen. Insights from Behance’s research on productivity for creatives/entrepreneurs.”
I’m not sure what my talent it. Yet. I hope I do discover it.
I also hope it isn’t washing cars or selling video games because I hated those jobs.
GPOYW.
New Amazon Cloud Player looks good. Still slow as hell.
Dear this evening’s How I Met Your Mother
No. No, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Nu-uh.
From Clerks:
Randal Graves: And I hope it feels good.
Indecisive Video Customer: You hope *what* feels good?
Randal Graves: I hope it feels so good to be right. There’s nothing more exhilarating than pointing out the shortcomings of others, is there?
Indecisive Video Customer: Well, this is the last time I rent here.
Randal Graves: You’ll be missed.
Indecisive Video Customer: Screw you!
Seriously though, thanks. I’m an awful proofreader.
