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M-O-O-N, That Spells Blog!
Saturday, November 28, 2009 @ 10:19 PM
Greetings everyone!
Well, its official. The holiday season is upon us. How do you feel about that? Good? Wonderful! I've never really been a big fan of the holiday season myself. No no, don't get me wrong or anything. I love the holidays themselves of course but for whatever reason, I always feel a bit of omnipresent stress and pressure and overall bluesy feeling this time of year. I think has something to do with the closing out of the calendar year perhaps. The end of the year is a time to take stock and see how the plans for the year turned out. Maybe this is not such a good idea seeing as the best laid plans inevitably change and alter course but its something that I can't seem to keep myself from. Then somehow, January 1st dawns and feeling of hope washes over me as a fresh new year presents itself to me, ready to be taken over like a city ready to fall to a fleet of Vikings. Yeah, I know, its an odd analogy but it felt right so I'm gonna go with it. I'm sorry to have gotten off to a bum out of a start to the blog. Let's kick things up a notch lest we all fall into a pit of despair!
Speaking of despair! Wait. No. We're moving away from despair. Ok, ok, we'll just come back to that . . . Let's talk about the giving of thanks. Its a wonderful thing, ain't it? The Pensive Thanksgiving was incredibly low key this year. (For those of you that don't follow along at home each week, Jeremy and Cody are back in Indy for the holidays). Even with family present, we had a mere 7 people over for dinner including your's truly. However, it was still a wonderful day full of family fun for all! After a magnificent dinner that we all pitched in for we took a trip down to the local theater for a cinematic adventure in the form of a movie based on a book by one of my favorite authors growing . . . Roald Dahl!! The film I'm speaking of, of course, is The Fantastic Mr. Fox. Directed by Wes Anderson. Starring George Clooney, Jason Shwartzman, Meryl Streep, and Bill Murray. It was, well, fantastic. I highly recommend that you see it and soon. It will make you feel all sorts of happy on the inside. Know what movie won't make you feel happy on the inside? The Road. I've never seen a more bleak and depressing movie in my life. I mean, for what it is, its a good movie. A moving and emotional movie. But damn is it dreary and depressing. Certainly not for everyone thats for sure.
So what else comes with Thanksgiving? Thats right. Black Friday. Last year was the first year that I participated in the whole hoopla of shopping and that was a very unique experience. Especially in a wheelchair with a broken ankle. What could have possibly lulled me out of bed and into my rented wheelchair at 10 in the morning last year? Why, it was the prospect of getting Dead Space for a mere $30!! However, by 10 in the morning, all the Targets in my area were sold out. Sad times. Except not! Cause I found out they'd be getting more shipments in over the weekend and checked back on Sunday where I found that in the absence of Dead Space, they had marked down Fallout 3 to $30 as well and kept it at that unadvertised price even after getting Dead Space back in stock which meant I picked up two of last year's best games for the price of one! No such luck this year but I did succeed in saving all sorts of money. We decided to head out a bit earlier this year. You see, Best Buy opened at 5am and they had Dragon Age Origins for a mere $35. I figured I wouldn't need to be waiting in line or anything since they couldn't run out that fast, could they? Oh but yes, they could. When I arrived in the PlayStation3 aisle at 5:27am, every last Dragon Age was gone! Tragedy!! Thankfully, I salvaged the tragedy with a quick trip to Sear's where for a mere $5 more, I was able to safely procure myself a copy, even if it was the last one. I then stood in line waiting for GameStop to open at 6am. Yes, even though I work at GameStop, I still have to wait in line like a normal person. Sadly. What did I wait in line for? Well, its a little silly. You might laugh at me. I waited in line for Dead Space Extraction. Why is that silly? Well, for those of you in the know, you should know that it is a Wii game and if you follow my blogs you probably know that I don't own a Wii. And no, it wasn't a gift. So yes, I now own a Wii game (two actually . . . ) and I don't even own a Wii. Yet. I'll procure one at some point before year's end. Somehow. After a few other quick trips to other stores to make other purchases, the trip ended where it began, at Best Buy. Why? Well, its simply. They had Harry Potter Blu Rays for $13!!! I could have gotten them in the morning, but, time was short and the line at Best Buy at that time snaked its way through the appliance center and the car audio center and beyond. Around 7:30 when I arrived back for my Harry Potter purchase, I got to enter the line right at the washing machines ; ) Rumor was though that at one point, the line had wrapped itself around the entire store over to the Geek Squad right next to the front door. Yikes! So, did you do your part to stimulate this shaky economy of ours? If not, well, get out there and spend spend spend!! Make Obama proud!
Last, but not least, last week I mentioned that I had started Uncharted 2. This week I can now mention that I finished it. I can also mention that if you own a PS3 and don't own Uncharted 2, you have no idea what you're missing out on. Seriously. Never has a game literally made me say "wow" out loud so many times. The graphics are simply breath taking. The action is insane and over the top. Just picture the best big budget blockbuster you've ever seen and loved and now imagine playing it. That's Uncharted 2.
Well folks, that just about wraps things up for the week. I hope you had the most magnificent Thanksgiving possible. See ya'll next week!
Randall Flagg
*As requested, I didn't mention what the title is in reference to so go ahead and take your guesses. And no, its not a direct quote but if you know it, you know it . . . |
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