Comic for Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Posted: 8:15 am, Thursday, January 17th

We saw Juno yesterday - what a sweet film. I'd heard a lot about the screenplay, and after the opening scene with the creative clerk (American Gareth from the Office), it really was top notch. Something about the dialogue in that first scene just didn't work for me, though. And the soudntrack was as good as I'd heard. We've got like a million and five weddings/celebrations of weddings to go to this year, I think the closing track from Juno would be an excellent choice for first dances.

Roger Clemens is so awesome and nice.

I haven't been in front of the computer much this week, except to draw upcoming comics or to write some (obviously not the blog), so I haven't fired up any of these free games that 1Up lists, but I'm sure there's plenty there to eat up your day with. Fedora Spade, a Tale of Two Kingdoms, and I Want to Be the Guy all sound pretty good to me. One's a Shadowgate/Deja Vu-looking thing from what I gather, the second is a Sierra homage (the description was, if you have any love in your heart, download this, so, you're safe, Tree), and I Want to Be the Guy is a takedown of games like Adventure Island and Ghost and Goblins for the NES, games that no one, ever, anywhere have ever beaten. Fuck man, I never even beat G&G on the NESticle, when you could save every four steps. And then you have to beat it twice to get the real ending! Which I'm sure is just 'congratulations' misspelled or something.

After much cajoling by 15 and then eventually 2.0, I have joined Facebook. I haven't really got the page set up yet, but I'll be taking down the MySpace link there at the bottom and adding Facebook, I guess. From what I understand, this one is much more useful - I think the last time I went on MySpace was over a year ago. Basically whenever I stopped the MySpace Design Nightmare of the Day. Those things actually took a long time to find sometimes, because each one would get worse and worse.

Anyway.

bullfrog

Grafe -- Thursday, January 17 2008, 10:41 am

I don't think my quarter ever lasted more than 1 minute on ghosts and goblins.

Fuckin' red devil thing, man. Honestly, if the dude didn't run around in his underwear half the time, I don't think anyone would've played that game twice. Freaking impossible.

Anybody seen this yet? The Library of Congress on flickr, how awesome is that...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/

My co-workers are fans of playing Big Buck Hunter at bars. Anyone else encountering this? It seems to have replaced Golden Tee.

PS: Happy Confederate Generals Day Eve