"Monkeys can't be donkeys, quit messing with my mind!"

But mere hours ago I finally got around to watching King of Kong, about the two guys going mano a mano to prove who is top gorilla in the old school arcade version of Donkey Kong. Have you ever played that? I have, back when arcades could be found, it is tough game, how these dudes got such ridiculous scores is mind boggling. Fuck that. Look, I know that without old school video games I'd have to spend my video gaming time uh I guess not playing playing video game because they wouldn't exist. I do have a soft spot for Joust, Robotron, but not a whole bunch of them. I like Joust mainly for the ridiculousness of it all. Flying ostriches! King of Kong revolves around Steve Wiebe taking on Billy Mitchell for the high score in Donkey Kong. It sounds simple enough, but there's all this intrigue going on. At one point some dudes show up to S.W.'s house to check if his Donkey Kong machine was rigged. There's mysterious tapes and mind games going on. All of this for Donkey Kong. Then another documentary started up, I'm Addicted to Video Games, or something like that. It followed the adventures of a motley crew of gamers. I didn't finish watching it but the coolest thing about that one was the soundtrack. It didn't just profile the dudes who live in a house fucking shut up in WoW, but some other gamers as well, a couple that met through Everquest meeting for the the first time, and a former video game junkie. Good times. Well, for me. Man, I don't know, I like my video games, but these people are hardcore. I will gladly turn the video game off and go do something else, like go get food. Hell, I'll just go ahead and die if something is going on. That's why I never got into raiding in WoW, which according to most people is the real meat of the game, because raids took for fucking ever. I'm not going to sit here for hours on end. I need to get up and get drinks or a sandwich or whatthefuckever.

Sometimes I think I'm addicted to my cell phone. I'll be hanging around and I'll feel my phone go off only to find out that nothing happened. Or someone else's phone will go off and I'll check mine even though it's not even the same phone. I believe that part of it stems from not wearing a watch and always wanting to know what time it is. I used to wear a watch, but when I was working at the body shop I was afraid that it would get caught on something and tear my hand and/or arm off, and I need my right hand for stuff, so I stopped wearing one. It's sad when I don't have my phone, I know it's a first world problem, I'll be walking around, unable to tweet stuff, asking strangers what time is it every 10 minutes, ugh what a bleak horrible future this is.

I don't remember the last time I was obsessed with something. Perhaps this is a personal fault. Back when I was 12-14 years old I was really into conspiracy theories. I was new to the internet and my interest in cryptozoology (wow, this was a really long time ago, back before the world beat all the wonder, hope, and belief out of me) led to various UFO and whatnot sites. At first it started off innocently, but pretty soon I was knee deep into the whole reptilian overlord crazyness. One of my favorite ones is that there's a secret underground war, not as in secret but literally underground, between various aliens and alien/human hybrids, I think the Illuminati were in there too. Luckily it didn't get too out of hand, mainly because I was a lot of science fiction back then and one day I thought, there's science fiction stories that make more sense than this stuff. I no longer believe in crazy conspiracies, but now, alas, I no longer believe in Bigfoot. Prove me wrong, Bigfoot, prove me wrong.