Icarus's blog: "Augurs, Martyrs, and Agnostics"

Look, sometimes you have to play Wii sports for 30 innings of pitching before you get a win...

going "pro" on that game is ridonculous. Got sidearm cyborgs pitching junk balls and hitting out of the park homers on 86 mph screwballs meanwhile I'm suffering muscle death and my arm makes a crinkling noise not unlike a stepped on water bottle

translation: Wii cheats at baseball.

But I am pretty good at it... even if I can't lift my arm to take a drink today.

I don't think this is gonna be a "nintendo post" but I have been thinking a lot about video games lately.

My limited edition, no longer replaceable 80 gig PS3 is fucking up on PS2 games regularly, so I played some nintendo to sidestep the frustration.

Result

sore arms.

But I did get some cooking in today.

Spent $50 on groceries picked up...

a boatload of vegetables and... ... that was about it.

Man, if people were lookin into my cart today they'd swear I was on a health kick, of course my rinkydink town was out of any pepper hotter than a jalapeno, so I'm gonna have to make do, but

I've almost got everything I need to cook some chinese food.

That includes

1 whole chicken for $4.30

Swear to god, everything is cheaper in southeast kansas

except gas.

Which is weird because I'm a 15 minute busride away from one of the nation's major refineries.

And yes- you can smell it on a windy day.

... what do I have for you?

Mixed reviews on my soybean fried rice

"Its good"

and

"too garlicky"

... "I like garlic though."

So that's still in the works for someone other than me to eat it

I'm probably going to cook the chicken this weekend and see where that gets me

and I made a ginger-orange-spicy peanut-garlic-soy sauce with rice noodles

it needed a spicy pepper and maybe a drop or 5 of honey

but I've been impressed with results involving just the juice of one half of a small orange.

Also- fresh ginger is pretty potent stuff, I cut the root in one spot and the whole kitchen smelled like ginger.

I think I'd like to play something mindless, and cook something with a lot of leek or cabbage tomorrow.

Oh yeah...

Hangover II....

Was Hangover I

with dicks.

Lots

and lots

and lots of dicks

and if you know ANYTHING about Thailand or Bangkok (from people that live there or the travel/discovery channel) you will not be terribly surprised at two or three of the jokes that had 20 minute setups

got a

:/

out of me.

It managed to be a clone movie that wasn't as funny, and threw in half a gallon of flacid cock on the screen for your trouble and money

speaking of trouble

fuckheads texting in front of me

fuckheads kicking my seat and spilling a box of jellybeans behind

fuckheads to my left and right talking throughout the movie

I keep swearing "I'm not going to a movie on opening night"

or "if I'm in walking distance of home, I'm just gonna register a complaint, try to get my money back and go home"

but I keep getting talked into premiere nights.

Empty/mostly empty theaters a week or two after opening are where its at.

Hell, if you make it to one during the daytime you get it half price

... I'm just pissed that the 8th Harry Potter movie is in 3D (150% ticket price for migraines and hammy camera angles and ravenous fuckhead fans?).

And everyone I know will ask me to go on release.

Spoiler alert! ... I already read the book and didn't even like it.

400 pages of wandering in the forest avoiding an innevitabile conclusion to a story, or forcing writer's block and not having an editor with the cajones to tell you "we need to cut at LEAST 200 pages of this whiney bullfuck meandering and put in some conclusive action that isn't just a convenient wrapup in the last 20 pages of the book- and for fuck's sake, could you EXPLAIN the bad guys' motivations other than evil for the sake of evil, and fear of death/torture and getting back at people that excluded you? they're very flat and two dimensional, maybe if you put in a legitimate identifiable justified phobia of muggles into the book for the bad guys to believe in or some kind of belief system above racial supremacy and mustache twirling and have a convincing propoganda campaign for the fear of a muggle-war, I could believe this orwellian totalitarianism that took power in the course of six months being accepted so readilly by a largely carebear and oblivious society and maybe I could forget that a vast majority of the people involved are on the sidelines of two well known extremist groups waging a highly visible war of 50 flailingly insane people"

... I'm sorry, did I just criticize the (mediocre) conclusion to one of the most beloved book serials of all time?

I did?

My bad

But book 7 was shit.

Which is forgiveable, I'm not exactly batting 1000 myself.