Where the magic happens

This is it folks, this is where the magic happens and i sit in my pain and write these 2 crappy blogs, insights into my wonderfully pathetic existence...lol... ah, it aint that bad, i got Anne and Jinkers and all this wonderful tech and toys, so i make the best of what i've got... you can only see the mouse on the left, but farther left off screen is my laptop which i use like a desktop, then there is another 19 inch monitor next to that for an as of yet broken PC..lol.. no rush to fix it cuz i have my mac here and my PC needs are taken care of with the laptop, which is a pretty good laptop, even for gaming, has a decent video card in it, so its pretty cool...as always, if you're bored, click on the pic for a bigger version so you can zoom in and marvel at some of the tiny details of my life like my Marvel Squinkies, my little Baby Jeebus, and he's holding my mom's wedding band, which she passed on to me when she passed around 9 years ago... But yeah, theres alot to see in this pic, and this is only like 1 tenth of the clutter and chaos of the rest of the apartment...lol.. but its cool clutter, cuz its cool rare shit you're never gonna see anywhere else in the boring outside world... i tell evryone, if i'm gonna be a hermit, i'm gonna surround myself with all the coolest toys and shit i can get my grubby little mitts on...lol... this place is like a bizzarre little museum of oddities and treasures, and i love it, so feel free to explore it with me as i make more posts and pics of the place and all of its nifty little inhabitants...lol

Arkham Horror Investigators

Just got these tday, and i'm as giddy as a schoolgirl...lol... This is the complete set, all 48 of the Arkham Horror investigators miniatures... sorry about the frontline being blurry, i guess the camera thought the point of focus was the center of the crowd of figures, DOH!!!... was lazy and didnt feel like retaking it, so oh well...lol... anyways, having the complete set is pretty rare cuz according to the fantasy flight website, the entire set isnt available at retail brick and mortar stores due to some stupid bullshit, so here ya go, soak em all in, i'm gonna be drooling all over these things tonight... drooling right now but that might be cuz my meatloaf and tatoes just came out of the oven and i'm hungry, nom nom nom....lol... These will work also with the Elder Sign game i just got, cuz that game uses the same investigators as Arkham Horror, which is the reason i wanted them, cuz the character markers that came with the game were these little cardboard chits, so that sucked, chitty is more like it..lol.. i crack myself up... and i've been playing elder sign solo alot so i decided to splurge and go for it, and i couldnt be happier, and these things werent cheap.. i take this chit very serious so i had to get these, couldnt help myself... anyways remember to click on the pics here cuz as always these pics are in hi-res so they blow up nice so you can see all the details and chit... off to eat my meatloafs and tatoes, nom nom nom, be back later with a new post...

My Ultrasaber lit up

Here is the saber with blade lit up... This pic doesnt do it justice cuz the flash washes out the brightness of the bade which is pretty friggin bright and intense... Like i said before, these things are awesome and for hardcore nerds only, cuz the average person can't appreciate how awesome these things are... nerds do....lol.. which makes us even more awesome, cuz nerds are awesome to start with... nerds armed with a handmade custom lightsaber are too awesome for mere words...lol.. so that makes me pretty friggin awesome..lol.. i know, i'm pretty deluded and odd, but with all the shit i have goin on in my life, things like this make it a lot better...lol... This pic has the green lit up, but i can make seven different colors by mixing them with the 3 RGB switches on the hilt... the bottom fourth switch is the master switch... and the pommel is from the war glaive model which i just got yesterday... all the parts for these things are all TCSS certified and all compatible so you can mix and swap out parts so you can have a one of a kind saber.. they actually all are one of a kind cuz they're all handmade to your specs that you fill out when you order them, which is awesome, cuz there are a ton of options on these things so you really do have a custom one of a kind piece when you're all done... again, i can't say enough good things about these sabers and the company that makes these models, which is www.ultrasabers.com... go there and get one of these things today, you won't be sorry, and they have a TON of models to start with, then you start adding all the features you want... I love my saber, and i'm a huge nerd....lol

My Ultrasaber

Here is one of my loves of my life, my Ultrasaber... This is her unlit, will post another pic next with the midgrade normal blade lit... I also have the midgrade ultra-edge blade too which is awesome and a little bit brighter... This saber is also customized more cuz i put a war glaive pommel on it that resonates louder, so it sounds even better than the regular pommel that came with this model, which is the Bellicose.. The company that makes these by hand is called www.ultrasabers.com... these guys are GOOD... and these sabers are made for actual duelling, thats what this company specializes in, sabers you can actually duel with, which is fun as hell... duelling is like a choreographed dance, look up some vids of this on youtube, its amazing and fun to watch.. so i'm actually getting better at spinning this thing really fast from my right hand to my left and back again, which is actually pretty hard, especially when you do it really fast, which looks cool as hell at nite when the blade is lit... This is also an RGB model so i can change to any of 7 colors on the fly, its awesome... and i have a soundboard in there that you can modify all the sounds and settings via USB port.. these things are well made and pretty complex, and for hardcore nerds only, cuz these things arent cheap... when you add all the goodies like sound and RGB... I shoulda got the lighted switches, cuz i was already paying a nice amount, but oh well, i like these switches cuz they have guards on them... Its made of aircraft grade aluminum and with the new pommel adding weight to the back end, has a great weight and balance to it, which make spinning even smoother... i'll write more about it in my next post where i post a pic of it with the blade in it lit up.... I am such a dork...lol

Jinx on the prowl

Havent posted a Jinx pic in awhile, so here ya go, cuz the interwebs have a shortage of cat pics...lol... here is Jinkers on a lovely box we picked up to store all our soda cans, cuz having like 5 boxes of 12 pack sodas was getting a little unsightly... so storing them all in one box seemed like a better idea and Anne liked this one when we were doing our yearly Halloween shopping night at Homegoods the other nite.. I'm sure you'll be seeing other purchases we made from that evening on here soon, cuz we got some really cool shit that night and the following night at AC Moore the craft store...

Sweet Baby Jeezus

Here is one of my favorite deities up there with fat Elvis and Cthulhu and all his minions... but Baby Jeebus is up there, as he should be, all adorably omnipotent and shit... just look at him, just fills you with goodness just lookin at him... mmmm, filled with goodness, i sound like a fuckin twinkie now.... gots to go eat one after talkin like that, nom nom nom, mmmmm...lol... i have him mounted right under my 22 inch mac monitor, so under the monitor is His Holiness, and above the monitor is His Fishiness, Ryley... maybe i should have it the other way around, but oh well, i have both these guys basically glued to my shit with blue putty, so i think they're gonna be stayin put...lol... be back soon cuz i got lots more creamy goodness ready to fly on here...lol... ok, that sounded like Peter North, i'm all over the place tonight...lol... be back soon kids...

My little Ponies

Here we have some of Anne's My Little Pony collection... They did a reboot of the show recently which Anne absolutely fell in love with, so in my ToysRus trips i've been getting her these things every trip... Some of these were in a nice little box set, and the ones in the back were individual ponies... I don't know the names yet but she does, so i should have her make a post and list all the names, cuz they're just so adorably cute they'll haunt your dreams...lol...

My pet fishy Betta, R'lyeh

This is a nice close up of my new little buddy R'lyeh.. (Riley) is how we say it, easier off the tongue that way...lol.. named after an island in the dreamlands from the Cthulhu mythos for those nerds out there in the know...lol.. Got him this past week when we went to petsmart to get Jinkers her cat grass for the week.. we get her fresh grass every week cuz she's spoiled rotten and she loves that shit... So i got a whole setup for the fishy and some live plants and lights for the little tank, pretty sweet little setup that i have set up on a shelf right over my 22 inch monitor, i know, really smart to hang a tank of water right over my computer, but i'm careful with that shit...lol.. The fishy is a red crown-tail betta, never had a red one before, my last one was blue and a crown tail.. i knew it was time for a new fishy and tank when i walked past him at the store, something about him caught my attention and i was like, BAMMM!, time to get a new fishy...lol... will be posting more regularly in the upcoming days cuz i've been feeling better and i have my fresh supply of meds so i'll be healthy and good for the immediate future, and i have some cool pics i'll be posting too, so tah tah for now kiddies, be back soon...

Feelin like shit

Hey all sorry been away for so long again, been bad medically, usual shit... but for some reason i'm supposed to be here, so deal in or deal out and dealin out aint happenin, still too strong even in my weakened state so things will get better... just wanted to stop by and say hi to the people who still read this, heres an old pic of Jinkers smilin, love this pic, she is one happy cat...lol
will be back soon when i'm back at full strength with more fun shit and pics... peace out for now

Jinx plotting something diabolical

Havent posted a Jinx pic in some time, so here ya go... I heard a rustling before so i got out the camera and sure enough, Jinkers was up to no good and she was digging into the bags on this table we use as a wet bar and one of the places i keep my CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZZZ.... mmmmm nummm nummmm mmmmmmm, cheeeeeeeeeeez....lol... but once she knew that she was being observed, she stopped digging and put on this straight innocent face...lol.. Love this friggin cat, she is one of a kind fo sho...lol

DVD collection guarded by Halo soldiers

Here is a color pic of the DVD shelves that is just a portion of Annes DVD collection of live metal shows and cheez metal...lol... Also in there is Bob, my homage to the Dresden series of books and shorts stories by Jim Butcher... anyone familiar with the books will know who Bob is, and this is my Bob...lol.. You cant tell from the pic but he lights up, i have a puck light under him and then i also coated the inside of him in glow paint so when the light is off he still glows... what can i say, i'm a weirdo, oh well... eccentric sounds nicer....lol... And like all of my pics on this blog, they're pretty high res, so click on them and they blow up really big so you can see all the details nice... in this case, you can the titles in her DVD collection... She has some really rare stuff too, some European acts and live shows that are just awesome... and you can see some of my retro Playstation and Dreamcast games that i actually still play...lol... So all this music and gaming goodness needs protection, 2 of my Halo soldiers, the red in my current configuration that i'm playing now in multiplayer, and the other in the steel colors... both have jetpacs which is my favorite and the only loadout i use in the game...So yeah, click on thepic and zoom in and see some of the cool shit we have on DVD and the old games... on the other side of the apartment she has the rest of her collection cuz its in alphabetical order, and i have some of my own rare DVDs stuck on some other shelves cuz we ran out of shelving real estate because i have too much shit and collectibles... but in my eyes, there is no such thing as "too much"... when it involves cool awesome shit anyways...lol... in that case i have WAY too much... much thankfully i have Anne and she adds to my collections of cool awesomeness...lol

Homestar EXTRA... I LOVE this thing

Been on a kick with all my collections lately, and here is the prize piece of my planetarium collection, and yes i have a collection of planetariums, 5 or 6, then i have like 6 discs that go into these homestar planetariums, so that makes a pretty cool collection if you're a science geek like myself or Anne... Yup another thing her and I have in common, a love of science, astronomy, physics, all things in a broad spectrum of science...lol... so she tolerates the clutter in the apartment of things like this, the Homestar EXTRA... I forget the exact number of stars compared to the regular homestar, but considering its like over 15 times brighter than that model, which i also own, told ya it was a collection...lol... This model was made for Japanese clubs and schools... it works in low light situations, doesnt have to be total darkness like the original homestar which is 1 watt.. this one is 16 watts... also comes with a remote that lets you punch in any date and it will show you the night sky for that date and year... when i discovered this online, i pined over it a couple years and made due with the first homestar which still is a good unit, but when i finally got this one and it arrived at my doorstep, i could barely contain myself and had a nerdgasm the first night i set it up and got it running... i tried getting some pics but none of em came out that great or do it justice, you just gotta see it, its pretty friggin amazing, the first thing everyone says is.... WOW....lol... you dont even have to be a geek to be wowed by it... even our cat is mesmerized by it when we have it running...lol... its a Japanese import and the prices vary from expensive to out of your mind expensive, but like the first Homestar when i got it, i found a really good deal online, so i had to get it, and its still one of my best impulse buys ever... lol... this is so far the highest end mass market home planetarium available, so if you ever get the chance to buy one at a good price, or can even find one cuz they're kinda rare and overpriced as is, scoop it up, you won't be sorry.... i've used this thing alot and i'm still wowed by it the first time i fire it up after not using it for awhile...lol... come to think of it, i think i'll sit under it tonight for an hour or so, whenever i use it, i feel like a little kid at X-mas, i'm pretty goofy like that...lol

Halo soldier on duty

Got 2 of my collections represented here in this lovely little pic... A halo figure decked out in the current configuration of weapons and armor and colors that matches what i'm currently playing in Halo Reach... same colors and all... i know i'm corny as hell, but just another of the many distractions i have to make my weird boring life more interesting and tolerable.. Anne finds it adorable, she is the most amazing and wonderful and accepting person on the planet, just to be able to be around me 24/7, i can't give her enough credit...lol.. Love her so much...she is the best thing that ever and will ever happen to me... even winning the lottery can't even come close, and i tell her all the time that the odds of meeting someone like her are greater than any 100 million dollar lottery...lol... i'll take one of those tickets tho anyway baby Jeezus if you're listening...lol.. I'm grateful for Anne and all, but can't blame me for bein greedy, its the american way...lol... did a little artistic tinkering with the pic, hope you guys like it...

My favorite skull

Another of my collections, and i'm discovering i have many...lol... lemme see, nerf guns, music, gargoyles, action figures, board games, planetariums, and a sample here from my skull collection... and its probly my favorite out of all of them... it just has a creepy spooky evil vibe to it... so i played around here adding mood to the pic in photoshop, hopefully i did it justice...lol... lost count of how many skulls i have, but i took a few pics today so you'll be seeing more of them in upcoming posts...lol... trying to update this blog more often to accompany my other blog that this blog is linked to... and i actually have regular visitors to both, which i find awesome and i'm grateful to all the nice people who find my ramblings and my stupid shit and hobbies and collections and art interesting...lol.. thanx again to all you wonderful bored people out there...lol.. boredom would be the only thing i can think of that would make me seem interesting and a reason to visit both blogs... sorry for the bad grammar, tired after a morning of flailing playing kinect fruit ninja, and boy are my arms tired... sounds like a punchline, but nope, that game kicks the shit outta my sorry outta shape ass... but its fun as hell... if you have a kinect and an xbox, you gotta get it... i gave it a great review on my other blog...lol

My own little R2D2

Here we have another of my prized star wars collectibles, a fully functioning scaled down R2 unit... does everything, rolls around, plays games, voice activated, tons of voice commands and hidden tricks he can do, one of the coolest toys in my collection... Not sure if these are still in production cuz i know sharper image was selling them right before they went belly up...lol... but i got mine a long time ago from toys r us... they were only available there for a short time, so i'm glad i scooped him up when i did... yesterday i was at Target and i saw a hasbro force FX light saber plastic version, but with the one piece LED scaling up and down blade like the expensive ones, does all the same sound effects, and it was like 30 bucks, so i had to grab it...lol... now that sits right next to the trusty little R2 unit on the floor next to my RC WALL-E... will post a pic of that some other time, i got too many cool damn toys...lol...

Force FX lightsabers... the good ones

Apologize again for being away for so long, caught up in the usual bizzy shit and medical woes, and lots of gaming and music and my usual shizz...lol.. and for new visitors here be sure to go to the bottom and hit older posts, cuz i have pages and pages of cool old shit like art samples, more pics of my toy collections, cat pics, all kinds of stupid goodness...lol.. Todays pic is of one of my prized pieces of all my star wars shit, my 3 force FX lightsabers from Masterreplicas... these are the first and original ones the company put out many years ago, i'm bad with ages and times and shit, lol... Just that these were allegedly made with parts from lucasfilm that they used in the original movies... they didnt say what parts, just weird shit like screws and knobs and random pieces... and they're like a third bigger than the current ones you see now in stores, they're the mass produced ones that are a third smaller now and the new ones use 3 AA batteries... my little babies take 6AAs, so that with the size difference give them quite a heft in your hand as opposed to the new ones... these feel like what i'm sure a real saber woulda felt like...lol... and they're in mint condition like most of my shit, and the pics just don't do em justice... i love these things..lol.. comin soon i'll put up a pic of my R2 unit that is pretty friggin awesome, voice activated, all the sound effects and lights and he rolls around like the real thing...lol... so keep comin back, i'll try to be better at updating it and posting fun new shit... and i link this site to my XBOX360 after dark blog, so if you're here from there, thanx again for reading both these, i appreciate the readership for both... hopefully someday i'll be rich and famous and you can say you were there from the beginning...lol.. i mean i do have my little limited brushes with greatness for stuff i did a long time ago like creating all the graphic elements and wallpapers and everything for a little yogurt store in NYC called Eskimix, samples of that are here in older posts, I was the original artist that did a big T-shirt line years ago called Butt-naked that a made alot of people a lot of money except me of course, the story of my life..lol.. I did the logo for Symphony X that they still use today, love those guys, and alot more that i'm too lazy right now to remember and write about, but my art is out and about there floating around in all kinds of forms, graphic design elements i did, other T-shirts i did for penneys and Kohls, again i can go and on, but my shit is everywhere...lol.. so i'm famous in own little bloated self-hating ego, i suck..lol.. be back soon

I love me some logos...lol

Maybe my damn game isn't done yet cuz i can't stop making stupid logos for it?... hmmmm, ya think?...lol... I just love doin logos and this is one of my favorites i've done in a while, so i can't stop making new variations...lol... Here is the logo for a black manual cover or for black shirts, caps, mugs, whatever...lol... i'd love to make a shitload of merchandise for it on cafe press but maybe i should focus my energies on finishing the damn game... prioritizing was never one of my strong suits...lol... considering i've made so much more work for myself like having to draw up a ton of new cards for the crew, new board additions, new ship counter art and additions, planet rules and a shitload of D20 results for a shitload of new D20 die roll modifiers and shit... i did say i was getting ahead of myself..lol.. but i must say again, this game is gonna be epic... if i ever get the fuckin done... but i will have some a nice coffee mug and t-shirt for a game that doesnt exist...lol

NEW StarShips logo...lol

Still workin on my friggin game, turned into an epic since its been so long in the making and i've added so many new elements like crew cards, a 20 sided die and planets and a ship diagram for mapping hits, etc., that i made a new logo with a new subtext...lol... i know i'm retarded and shit but i love doin shit like this, its more fun for me than the game will probly be...lol.. So if you're a company and this looks interesting to you and you wanna market my game, just leave a comment... This game is gonna be amazing once its all done and whatever, so you game companies start lining up now...lol

Jinx overload.. last one for the day, i promise...lol

Here ya go, just like the headline says, last one for now, i promise...lol... off to play some Haloes on the Xbox... love me some Haloes...

Pretty Jinx

Yeah, bored today and had the camera bug so i was just snapping away, and what better subject than our beautiful lil photogenic camera hog... she's so adorably cute, we're such the proud parents... Just what the internet needs, more pictures of fuckin cats, enjoy... oh the cuteness...gggllnkkak... i think i just threw up in my mouth...