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Oh, Hello. Blog on a plane!

Friends! Happy Friday and Labor Day. [Hot Dog], I'm back to the blog (I missed you) and I have at least a handful of things that pertain to my interests to post in the coming week. I've been on planes and trains and convertible automobiles of late so I haven't had much time to report to the web, but here's a short list of some of the adventures I've had:

• I had the pleasure of taking a quick, 5-day vacation to the island of O'ahu. Highlights include swimming in the waterfall that Kate and Sawyer swam in (LOST!), eating the best sashimi I've ever tasted at Tokkuri-Tei and getting tropical showered all up in our rent-a-convertible. Photos here.
• Currently flying back (with a serious face) from New York after my very first business trip. Though I was extremely jet lagged for my short stay, I had the pleasure of staying at The Jane hotel thanks to a suggestion from Finn. It's charming in a stuffed monkey in a fez kind of way. I also ate peanut butter and jelly frozen custard from Shake Shack today. It was soupy but delicious.
• This weekend I'll be working on the good work, as in reading up on Gamemaker, working on album art for de'fchild productions, and finishing up some illustrations from Deadly Premonition for another project!

Waluigi, I feel busy. Any of you have exciting plans for this free-day-weekend?

p.s. Not at PAX this weekend. Though it would be great to see you all, I really had to take a break from all the conventions this year... but I should be making it to IndieCade this year hangin' with the indies! You should come too!

Happy Friday - Spring Mario... again???

via blog.gamefreaks.co.nz

A photo like this found on a Friday guarantees a Friday post. So here it is, with a little bit of this and a little bit of that.

  Aside from Picross 3D, cooking my own dinners and finishing season 4 of The Wire (so good), Super Mario Galaxy 2 has gotten about 50 power stars-worth of play the past week or so, and it's as good as everyone has said. In the beginning it felt a lot like its predecessor, but as we progressed through all of the wildly imaginative galaxies and gameplay it turns out it's a lot lot more. It really feels like they had all men on deck for this one, so in other words, get this game if you don't have it. If I didn't already own a Wii I would have bought one to play Super Mario Galaxy 2.

And as long as we're on the topic, there's a lot of neat power-ups in Super Mario Galaxy 2. Some are carried over from the first game, but one which shouldn't have made it is the frustrating, Mario-yelping-YAHUWWOO-with-every-press-of-the-A-button Spring Mario power-up. Yeah yeah, it's barely in the game so it's not worth complaining about, but it's the only poorly designed thing I've spotted in the game thus far.  I've heard other complaints about The Chimp challenges in the game, but frankly, I dig the Chimp's "Deal with it" style. Anyone else see that? Sort of reminds me Johnny Style from Zach & Wiki too.

In totally unrelated news, isn't this Fez inspired cross-stich birthday card awesome? Spotted that via Rubzo, retweeted by THE Phil Fish. 

And finally, in honor of listening to Little Dragon all week long, here's one of my favorite songs "Feather":

Little Dragon - Feather

Happy Friday - This Week's Essentials

*Yawn!* I'm *so* happy for Friday. This week has been nothing but utter exhaustion for me day after day, so it will be nice to take it easy this weekend. Wish I had more exciting tiff-news to share, but I don't, so here's a bunch of fun stuff for your Friday afternoon. Whee!

• Bear Sleeping Bag (shown above). Eiko Ishizawa combines bear and sleeping bag to give you the best of both worlds. (seen on Toxel, via Mark Weaver)
• Prison For Bitches This Lady Gaga fanzine is coming out in full force at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. Spelunky man Derek Yu adds his fierce contribution, along with Hellen Jo, who's comic documentation of a Lady Gaga concert is excellent:
  
  
  
• Nina proves to the world that Hapa babies are the cutest. For additional proof, check out this recording of a baby .tiff reciting her "abc's" (which includes a few more e's, and an additional l-o-well-o-pee at the end)
• Babies, the Village Voice's top notch review for the upcoming documentary Babies
• And finally, Paul Rudd's computer. The only video you should be watching on repeat this weekend.
  
  
  
  

Bundy Bundy Pon De Floor

Words cannot express all of the different kind of Bundies that are in my stomach, dancing around wearing goofy glasses right now. That said happy Friday everyon and have a great weekend!

via Eric Wareheim

Happy Friday - What year is it?

Where the hell did January go? Here I am with all my end of 2009 tasks to catch up with and January 2010 is already almost over? Geez, McFly.

Yeah so I've been a little slow to post all my recaps of last year (Year of the Ox collages, a tally of all my irrational fears from '09, etc.), but hopefully I'll get to some of it next week with the CO-OP '09 gaming reflections and wot not. 2009 was a really tremendous year for me. I didn't do everything I wanted to do, but I did a lot of things that I didn't expect to do, so, bonus. Sad to see it go. Hope 2010 is a solid year.

Anyway, Friday's tune is Grizzly Bear's cover of my favorite Hot Chip song "Boy from School". I got it from GeekWeek (which is another cool TypePad site you should follow).

Grizzly Bear - Boy From School (Hot Chip Cover)