I had a couple requests from people for me to update my wishlist for my birthday.
I have done so. I set it up a little differently this time. Ignore the Old Stuff section.
You can see the list here.
There are a few items that are not actually out yet, but I felt like being pro-active.
I posted a new video on Powet.TV reviewing Revenge of the Fall Voyager Class Starscream.
It was kind of rushed and its pretty obvious to tell where I had a script and where I was just rambling. Its not terrible, but its lacking something.
The toy itself is fun. Comparing it with the old one, it’s a better overall toy, but the old one has more play value, I think.
I just discovered that earlier this week marked the release of a recolored door poster by Jim Lee. Not just any door poster, mind you, but the door poster to end all door posters. This was one of many posters Jim Lee did when the second adjective-less X-Men book debuted in the 90′s featuring his artwork. I must find this, frame it, and mount it post haste. Now if only they would recolor and release the other posters he did from that time like the Magneto, Original X-Men, Things to Come and poolside posters!
This is what we did after Zac’s wedding reception in Wisconsin this past weekend.
More on the wedding later!
Just before the AnimeBoston/Botcon combo hit me, I ran out of checks to pay bills.
This might be the first time in roughly five years or more that I’ve run out of checks. I think the second time ever. Last time, there was a little slip at the back of the last checkbook to order a new set of checks. No such luck this time around. I went online to check my account and as I suspected there was an option there to order more checks. I went through the motions and soon I was at the part where I selected the background of the check. They didn’t have the same amazingly bland and boring background I had before, so I looked through each design set. There were maybe 50 different sets. Naturally as soon as I saw the design below, I knew which set to choose. The landlady is going to love these.
New review is up!
I did this entire video in rhyme in honor of the original Wheelie. I really liked the RotF Wheelie. I heard someone complain that he was too much like Joe Pesci, but honestly had they not made him like that, even more people would have complained because he was too cute or something along those lines. The video came together quite nicely considering I was hugely constrained on time once again. I did not get to start it until Saturday nor film it until Sunday. This is also one of my shortest videos. Mostly because I kept running out of things to rhyme with.
Hope you all enjoy. I’d say leave a comment, but I’m pretty sure those are still broken.
One thing at a time. I have not forgotten you, little blog!
Posted the new video very early this morning.
It was up for less than an hour and received two comments already.
You can view the post on Powet.TV here.
It has been a topsy turvy past couple of weeks.
The weekend before last (May 28th – June 1st) was Botcon 2009 and the weekend before that was AnimeBoston 2009.
There is lots to catch up on and I will do my best of it.
This is actually my week for a Powet video. I will be covering the convention exclusives from Botcon, but its been really tight to put everything together so quickly after the convention.
More later. I need to post the video to YouTube now!
In honor of Tax day, I wrote up a wonderful little retrospective on everyone’s favorite Decepticon Fuel Auditor, Ratbat. It was a fun little article to write. Given enough time, I’ll probably do more. Particularly if an appropriate occasion arises that warrants such an article. In this case, it was the sudden proliferation of Ratbat merchandise.
You can read the article here.
Recently, I had two different friends (Joe and Christy) send me invites to GoodReads.com. I found it curious how two people who are from completely different circles from my life sent me invites to the same site within a week or so of each other. Curious enough that I joined. The timing was impeccable since I was ensconced reading Dune and completely in the book mentality. I’ve come to really like this site and its interface. Everything is very simple and straightforward. It allows you to organize your books using tags, which are also cleverly called shelves. It doesn’t force any sort of order on your shelves and allows you complete freedom to use or not use shelves.
If any one likes to read, they should definitely check out this book-focused social networking site. I’ve already sent invites to my mom and sister.