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I had a pretty good weekend - a gaming session, lots of video games, some Law and Order, and most importantly (or at least, most interestingly) another edition of Bad Movie Night. Oh, also some cheap comic books at a sale.

For Bad Movie Night (after a session of the new Marvel Heroes RPG) we randomly selected 'Escape From Galaxy 3' - which is honestly one I've been wanting to see in its entirety since seeing clips of it at the Smithee Awards. They made Italy's only black man the villain, put him in a costume that Ming the Merciless would find over-the-top, and put glitter in his beard.

Me : "It looks like he fellated David Bowie!"

Actually, you know what? The internet. Here you go.

Not to mention the Smithee-nominated scene where the aliens decide to leave Earth so as not to endanger their human friends, whereupon the human friends tell them they're kicking them out anyway - then the aliens mention that they agree, and the humans INSTANTLY change their mind, refusing to allow the aliens to leave - to the point of attempting to forcibly restrain them.

XBOX Live Gold is now enabled. Woo. 13 months for under $50 - not a bad deal. I look forward to doing a little Soul Calibur and Katamari online. I may take some time to do that this evening - or possibly City of Heroes. Ordinarily, I would have been doing movie night this evening, but that has officially been moved to Thursdays, to accommodate friend Eric.

Something bit my leg this weekend, just above the ankle, and it itches like hell. It's a constant distraction while I am attempting to focus on important work tasks like.. updating my Livejournal. I do have to hack through a little SQL code after lunch, though..

Got stuff to do at work, so leaving it brief. Movie night was good last night - watched Neil Gaiman's Stardust, which was very fun.

Once again, movie night is upon us. Will the respective guests show? Will we take twenty minutes to pick a movie to watch? The suspense kills me.

Still, it's an enjoyable diversion, and occasionally, I get to see something cool that I haven't seen before. Last week, it was the Russian sci-fi horror flick, Night Watch. Very interesting movie. It just begs to have a roleplaying game made from it.

I think I managed to strain or sprain my toe. Doing my usual running exercises, sometimes I get a little pain in the bottom-outside of my left foot, and in trying to compensate for that, I think I damaged my poor toe slightly. I should really only do the running with shoes, even if I am inside.

I should be doing movie night tonight, if folks can show up. No idea what we'll watch, but there's always something.

Or, at least, a sign in front of a church. You know the kind - oft decorated with offensive moralizing or trite inanities. Occasionally, you'll get some clever, truly witty gem.

Well, I drive by a church on my way into work every morning, and their sign tends towards the 'trite inanities' variety, and this morning was no exception.

It read : "Grandparents are God's greatest gift to children."

I mentally added : "But the kids would rather play with the box they came in."

I have a sort of twisted sense of humor that way.

Had a brief movie night last night, watching some Venture Bros., and letting eemick2 demonstrate Persona 3. Amusing game.

Origins begins Wednesday. Tomorrow will have my last LJ update for almost two weeks, I expect, unless I'm feeling froggy sometime next week.

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Had movie night last night, and we watched Shaolin Soccer, to much amusement. Reminds me, I need to buy Kung Fu Hustle sometime.

This amuses me far too much.

I am thoroughly enjoying Super Paper Mario. It captures the feel of the Super Mario series beautifully, alongside the touches the Paper Mario series added, apparently. I've just about drained a pair of AA batteries in the Wiimote just from playing the game. I spent entirely too much time yesterday on it.

I got to have Movie Night last night - attendance was moderate, and we watched Casino Royale, which was enjoyed by all.

So, apparently, it was St. Patrick's Day this weekend. Despite having a Gaelic-descended surname and suchlike, I really don't have any cultural identification with Ireland, so my awareness of the holiday is sort of lax. I think the closest I came to celebrating the holiday was watching an MST3K episode with an "Irish Spring" riff, and watching An Evening With Kevin Smith - cause he was raised Catholic.

Yeah, I got nothin. Didn't even drink.

Did do a movie night last night, sort of - got off to a late start, so we ended up indulging in a couple episodes of Police Squad ( in COLOR ) and made it a short evening.

Up until five minutes ago, I had famed comic book writer and novelist Warren Ellis on my friends list (but not vice versa, of course), but I realized that he's basically kind of a dick, and though some of his posts on LJ are moderately clever, they're just a pile of unnecessary negativity. He did a little whine about people wishing him a happy St. Patrick's day over the weekend.

I found this portion telling : "If you want to celebrate St Pat’s today, eat a raw potato, build a house out of peat and get yourself shot by an Englishman."

Har har. Isn't he funny? Peat houses and raw potatoes and religiously motivated violence - because those are, apparently, the essence of Irishness. Now, I don't imagine he's really racist, or even culturally insensitive - but as a snarky joke it falls flat. It's all venom, with no bite.

On the other hand, the guy who responded to the post comparing St. Pat to a 5th century Samuel L. Jackson? BRILLIANT!

At last, temperatures have clawed their way above freezing. I didn't have to scrape anything off of my truck this morning, or even give it a chance to warm up. It's a wonderful thing. It's nice to be able to drive somewhere without concocting an emergency plan in the event that I get snowed in.

Went to bed at a decent time last night, but could not get to sleep for a long while - feeling tired and irritable as a result.

My weekly movie night may be getting bumped to Sundays; one of my friends' schedule changed and we're going to try to accomodate him.