What's your favorite cat food brand?

I saw this last night on Family Guy.

There, now you saw it too. After asking myself how such a... thing could happen I came to the conclusion that it was all probably due to Tony Montana amounts of cocaine.

One of videos on the sidebar is for Hungry Like the Wolf by Duran Duran. There's a line in that song, "I smell like I sound." It sounds like cheesy 80s pop music, therefore dude must smell like moldy vinyls at a garage sale. There's no music from the 80s that makes any goddamn sense. It doesn't help that my view of the 80s comes mostly from playing Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, a million action movies and various heavy metal albums, so a little skewed.

I dread that one day civilization will collapse and we'll have to stab people for dented cans of cat food. Mainly because I a big fan of not eating cat food, but a little bit because it won't look as cool as The Road Warrior made it look.

I have been warped by video games and not just from early on. A few nights ago I decided to listen to some tapes I had lying around, mostly old mix tapes, but there's a few actual albums in the pile, one of them being a Big Band compilation. The first thing that popped into my head when I started listening to that tape was Fallout 3, since there's an ingame radio station that only plays Big Band music. I'm sure there are people out there who when they hear this music they remember their good times, but me, I imagine a radioactive, monster infested, urban wasteland.

This is the opening scene to Fallout 3.

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Wow, I have a working portable tape player. That I use to listen to music from the 1940s. And the music reminds of things that never happened. D: D: D:

Have you played Portal 2? It is amazing. I don't know how a video game that doesn't involve straight up killing everything else (yes, even in racing games i am out to kill everything) that wasn't on my team or me could be so much fun. For a while it was a little weird playing a video game with FPS style controls despite the lack of homicide, but it grew on me, not even like a fungus. Basically you are traversing a labyrinth by using a gun that shoots portals. If something goes into one portal, cubes, lasers, liquids, cake, it goes out the other portal. Easy. PFWAH. It's a puzzle game dressed up like a shooter. It's a hard puzzle game to be sure, sometimes downright baffling, but never in a try and spike the control through the floor and see if it reaches china kind of way. Like other FPS the protagonist is silent, but instead of people yelling at you to "GO OVER THERE. KILL THAT!" There's a variety of hilarious robots and the dynamite Cave Johnson. Sure the single player is all well and good, but the real comedic action comes in the co-op 2 player mode. Since the PS Network was down for several weeks (In other news: i no longer look for cover/sniper positions everywhere i go)I had to play 2 player mode with my brother, hilarity ensued. The coop puzzles are even more intricate than the ones found in single player mode since having 4 portals open at a time can be a total mind fuck. I can see how the 2 player mode can lead to lots of swear words being tossed over the mike because you can't smack someone over the internet, yet. Playing offline was really fun, at one point I had to leave the room because I was laughing so hard at some unscripted moment that resulted in an inelegant, yet effective, solution. In either mode I could only handle playing the game for a limited amount of time because I couldn't take the sadistic robot mocking me anymore one can only think so much per gaming session.

Without the PS Network I played a lot of other video games I wouldn't played. And by a lot of video games I mean Mortal Kombat. But I already talked about enough video games for one post. For the love of Satin, I saw a man balance a bowling ball, that was stuffed with knives, that was on fire, stick a scorpion down his pants last week but there's nary a word of it up there. I do appreciate Mortal Kombat. The original Mortal Kombat has a special place in my heart as it was the first video game I remember playing (at a pizza hut). And it is always rife with a delicious ludicrousness, but I will play Street Fighter until they pry my cold dead hands away from the control pad before being shot into the sun when I'm 101 years old.

I've been living in Chicago as long as Richard Daley has been mayor. For a while I thought his first name was Mayor. Rahm Emanuel was sworn into office today. Thus a new era in Chicago politics begins.

and it's going to be FABULOUS.