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Coming To Theaters This Fall

posted by Norm on August 9th, 2005 • filed under General

A few things have happened in the month or so since I last posted, as you might expect. For starters, my car exploded. If you’re thinking to yourself that this is the type of thing you expect me to mention, allow me to introduce you to the darkest depths of my apathy and laziness. Feel free to make yourself at home.

Anyway, for those of you interested in the gritty details, one of my engine’s pushrods decided that the general vicinity of Mt. Pleasant was an excellent place to fire out through the bottom of the engine block. It was a rather spectacular display of billowing black smoke and engine pieces, one that I’d have been more enthusiastic about witnessing if it hadn’t been coming from my vehicle. As it were, I was less angry about the state of my car than I was about the fact that I was stuck in Mt. Pleasant, which is a crappy town if there ever was one.

Even worse, Bryan and I were supposed to be in downtown Detroit that night for the Dear Friends Final Fantasy concert I’ve mentioned a few times before. For those of you not familiar with Michigan geography, Mt. Pleasant is approximately two and a half hours away from Detroit when you have a working mode of transport, and it was about four-thirty in the afternoon when this occurred. The concert started at eight. Not the best of situations to be in.

However, Bryan and I, being the outstanding men we are, were not daunted by the task before us. In a series of events too awesome and action-packed to fully chronicle here we made a desperate dash across the state. Aided by not one but two thrilling car chases, several gun battles with state troopers and more than a few torrid romances with local women we managed to make it to the Maxx Fischer in time to miss only the first two songs. We had to blow the building up afterwards but, in the end, I’m fairly certain it was worth it.

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Me + Karma =

posted by Norm on August 25th, 2005 • filed under General

This is going to be a short post – I could actually spend seven or eight paragraphs ranting and raving like a half-mad lunatic about the many things that have gone less than perfectly in the last thirty-six hours or so but I don’t have time. Mostly because of the previously mentioned things that went wrong. Go figure.

Anyway, I’m back up in Houghton for all of about twelve hours while I borrow my parents’ van to move my larger things into the apartment. I’ll be heading back downstate in an hour or so in order to pack a few things and sleep before heading to Metro with Bryan to catch our flight to Seattle.

Just to clarify, we’re not eloping or anything despite the fact that Bryan is a sexy slab of man-meat. We are, in fact, going to attend the Penny Arcade Expo for the second consecutive year. This would be awesome in and of itself, but it is actually transformed into a scintillating jewel of wonder by the fact that the one Tim will also be in attendance.

Con report, general updates and (possibly) bitter rants about karma and my probable destinations in life to follow after I get back. Oh, and about all those e-mails I’ve been ignoring: I’ll reply to those as well. I read them, but I just haven’t been able to summon the time or energy to craft intelligent responses yet.

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