Graeme is a historian of early modern England who generally writes about popular culture. He is currently working on his master's thesis on leisure, sports, games, and issues of gender in the seventeenth century. Born in Canton, briefly exiled to Jasper, Graeme now lives in Kennesaw, Georgia. It is from this location that he operates his internet command center in his spare time, patrolling various forms of communication so that he can spring out from the depths at unexpected times with bitterly ironic and nonsensical comments. The command center also makes cute blonging noises.
My dark, cold, pathetic little heart broke tonight when Jim walked outside and saw Pam in the parking lot.
If only that kind of thing actually happened in life.
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This is just more hate piled on top of my post from last night, which was made in haste and perhaps not up to my usual standards.
Last night leaving a friend’s house I was greeted with screeching terror from my radio dial. Puzzled, I checked to see if I had somehow shoved a cat where my car stereo normally goes. Sadly, it was nothing so pleasant.
The Sirius XM changeover had happened at midnight, it seems. Drunk on their own near insolvency the idiots had decided to merge the worst parts of both together. The entirety of XM’s rock “block” was erased instantly with the Clear Channel sameness of Sirius programming.
They drug Fred out behind the DC headquarters, raped him, shot him in the face, and then left him on the street for as an example to anyone else who dared to have an original idea. They built a shack around the decaying body and called it “1st Wave.”
Ethel and Lucy were drowned like unwanted kittens in a burlap sack. What emerged from that river of hatred were shuffling Stepford zombie versions of what had gone in. Lucy’s new name was Lithium, and Ethel inexplicably tattooed “Alt Nation” on her forehead.
Squizz, one of the most personality-filled stations on XM? Octane. Fucking Octane.
I’m going to give it a month or so to see if the programming ‘merges’ at all, but at the moment, I’m perilously close to canceling already.
Has anyone else been bitten by this?
On my way home from D&D tonight I noticed something absolutely, positively terrible had happened at midnight. All of the best stations on XM were gone. Ethel, SquiZZ, Lucy…gone. Why the hell would would they keep Octane of all fucking things from Sirius? I specifically never got Sirius because their music channels blew ass.
God I hope they at least kept the DJs from SquiZZ. And Lucy was one of the best stations ever. I cry.
They seriously might lose a customer over this. I’ll let you know in a few weeks.
They are CHEERING IN THE STREETS here in West Palm Beach. It’s a symphony of noise outside. I’ve never been so happy after an election.
As of 11:00pm EST, Barack Obama is officially the President Elect of the United States of America.
Cheering in the streets.
*sniffle*
Edit: Half the anchors and pundits on CNN are in tears now.
I’ve had CNN on for hours and I’ve been compulsively checking the Ars soapbox and 538 while I work. I was all about 538 while in the airport earlier on the BlackBerry.
Om nom nom nom nom
Let’s chat, you and I. It’s been too long.
I’m still not sure what, if anything, I want to write about the ending of the Hefner family. I also still haven’t written about being behind a guy at the Target pharmacy who was asking the cute little pharmacist named Ha whether or not they had Enzyte.
Yes, seriously.
Today, let’s talk about Lost Odyssey instead. It’s actually a really good game. The problem is that it doesn’t start out strongly at all. For much of the first two discs you’re playing a good, but generic, JRPG. And to be fair I’m not sure if it ever really rises above that. It might merely become a “very good”, but not excellent, game. Disc 3 and Disc 4, however, are awesome in their own rights. If we treat them as acts in the story, as the game itself does, this one is very back-loaded. The story itself is more or less generic, but in a good way. The characters are what really sell it, particularly Kaim (through the Thousand Years of Dreams) and Seth (through actual characterization in the game).
It’s definitely Final Fantasy in all but name, though. On Disc 4, at the end, riding around doing every sidequest I could find…it was like finding an old friend. She’s not as deep as you thought she was a few years ago, but she’s way hotter, and you can still have a lot of fun together. Plus, it has New Game+. I will love any game with that option.
I forced myself to stop doing side quests and just beat it in the end. I fully intend to go back to it later. Why did I accelerate my enjoyment? Because after 7 days of talking about it non-stop, my resistance failed me. I am a fallen man:
There’s a whole lot of stuff I could write here about how I’ll never see quite a few members of that family again. Also, something sad happened, because I found out Nana’s “Pa” died. Maybe I’ll write about some of it soon when I feel like a lengthy post.
I’ll be away for a day or two. Nanny was my last grandparent. I was never really close, but I’m going to be spending a good bit of time supporting my family. Gotta go pick up my sister from the airport in a few hours.
The winner of the company’s fall carnival poker tournament is…hell yeah, that’s right! *flex*
