Hello friends!On Friday, we leave for Chicago for five days in our grand quest to visit America's largest cities before we die. Do you live in Chicago? Do you live close to Chicago? Tell us some awesome places to visit or maybe we will visit you! Yay. Also, if you know where Wesley Willis is buried, let me know so I can pay my respects.


Rock over London!
Rock on Chicago!

Burger King - Your way, right away!


- Lucas & Kelly -

I noticed the post below, and Honzo is too much of a slowpoke. So here it is, in all of its hilarity.

Metroid Prime Hunters

Nintendo DS Tetris

So I'm stealing this idea from Mac but I don't think she'll mind. I'm going to be on vacation (far away from the internets most likely) from March 27th until April 8th. I might be able to get online while we're in Florida but while we're on the cruise I'll most likely not. Since everyone is going off and doing their own thing in blog land (not that there's anything wrong with that), we need to enlist some more guest authors here. Heck, it might even lead to a regular gig if you are interested. You don't have to be a geek and talk about geeky things either. If you're interested, let me know in the comments or email brendoman at this domain.

Want to hear the new Flaming Lips album legally and for free?

Just curious about this weird band I keep raving about?

You can go now to the official Flaming Lips website and hear the new album in streaming audio. Just click on the audio tab.

And I would like to add that the more I listen to this album the more I love it. Some songs that sounded simple and poppy at first are beginning to sound much more complex to me. The song "Pompeii am Götterdämmerung" is one of their absolute best.

the mindful mission

Our own Hippy Dave has moved on to greener pastures and has obtained his own domain and hosting. Be sure to update your feeds and stuff!

Now that I have Tetris DS and Metroid Prime Hunters in my hands, posting will be a little light. And then I'm going on vacation. Sorry guys. I stayed up waaay too late last night. Phil and I went over to his brother Dave's house and we played Metroid and Tetris until about 1 AM. We also messed around with Dave's new recording setup and my copy of Electroplankton. In just a few minutes we were able to record some pretty darn cool tracks.

So how are the games? Incredible. And I haven't even really played Metroid that much. We were just playing download play because not everyone had the games yet and it was amazing. The gameplay on Tetris is as addictive as it's always been and now you have all the retro Nintendo goodness thrown in. The multiplayer adds a whole new dimension to the game. I was going to just go to bed when I got home but decided to play some single player Tetris instead. It was 3 AM before I knew it. I got caught up in all the different modes and then I tried a few online matches via the Nintendo WiFi service. I almost got completely sucked in again but I had stuff to do today so I pryed myself away and went to bed.

The controls in Metroid take a little getting used to, but once you do it becomes an amazing first person shooter. The multiplayer is fast and furious. I haven't even played the single player yet but Dave loves it. Kudos to Nintendo for releasing two amazing titles on the same day. And curses to them for eating up all my free (and not so free) time.

Xenu.net is offering torrents of the supposedly banned episode of South Park. Here's a link to the .avi torrent. Not only does this show take a huge stab at scientology, but it also makes fun of our good friend R. Kelly and his ridiculous music video series. If you haven't watched it yet, it's a must see.

One of the advantages of faster internet is the ability to post pictures faster, and also to post larger pictures than before. Click on the 'Photo Gallery' link to the right to see a few new albums (as promised). A couple of the albums feature pictures cropped to 20% of their original size rather than 10%, as I was fond of under our old internet regime. Just click on the picture you want to see larger, and it will open up in on a new page.

You can enjoy the pictures in the gallery, save the pictures on your computer if you want, or even contact me if you want a copy of the original for yourself. However, the originals vary between 3MB and 6MB, so my ability to get them to you will be very limited.

Let me know if you like the pictures, but not if you don't.