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January 1998 |
1998! ...no way! ...I'm still having a hard time
accepting that it's almost Artist-Formerly-Not-Known-As-Prince Party Time. Two more years,
...short years, and it will be 2000... ...no way!
Anyhow, I've had the second-most coolest thing (first
being the JFK ride last week) happen to me in the past year... ..."The Worst of
1997" special on www.pcme.com! There's a certain credit issue that just warms my
heart and a "Hat's Off!" goes to Rod White for including it. Thank you, sir!
Related... ...it's been rumored that the Quake Community is amiss that Q2 was included.
Having read the article a second time, it seems obvious enough that this was not meant as
slam against the game. Easy, kids, easy!
Actually, there's a third cool thing happening...
...someone else is doing our add-on pack for SiN. We've been mulling over this for
sometime now (deciding on the best team, time lines, etc.), but it really didn't sink in
to me until today that THIS time SOMEONE else is doing a pack for me! ...that sounds
uncharacteristically egocentric and self-serving, I know, but I just never thought I'd see
this day ;)
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13 January 1998 |
It's NOT Friday's and the number 13... ...it's full moons and 13! Oh shit!
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15 January 1998 |
God bless American... ...especially its automobiles. I must confess that I currently drive
a Jap car. I'm in need of a new car and have been thinking about getting a cool big
American hog like a Suburban, old Nova, or even a Herse. After the accident I saw this
morning on the way to work, I'm convinced! It was a nasty, nasty three-car pile up in
which a 1980's Buick had broadsided a Corolla, which then struck another import. The
Corolla had been converted from an already cramped 6-foot interior girth to a new 2-foot.
The third car was likewise totalled by the crushed Corolla. The Buick was sitting in what
looked like its original point of contact with bearly a scratch. It was obvious who walked
away and who heard the sirens. Related to
violence, we have a new hobby at the office... ...The Jerry Springer Show! I thought that
this was just another gab-and-sob show, but I was greatly mistaking! I stayed at home for
the holiday seasons and happened to catch this show. It is awesome... ...more beeping than
actual words, coldcock crosscuts to the face, cool cat fights between women who know no
rules to fighting. One show had two women going at it for the entire show, ...punching,
throwing, grabbing fistfuls of hair and not releasing as the stage hounds tried to pull
them apart. By the end of this show, they each had huge areas of scalp showing with blood
oozing from the wrenched follicles. ...Way cool!
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| 23 January 1998 |
Mr. Superstar Wieder (please see his .plan, if you haven't)! We don't often
get recognized by the female counterpart so it's a rare and charished event when we do ;)
The Levelord has a similar story, although it crashes hard at the end... ...he was in an
Arby's a few months ago, waiting in line for a dilectable, fat-laiden "roast
beef" (a mere vehicle for the Arby's Sauce, actually), when a beautiful blonde in the
adjacent line recognized me. She remembered me from the Duke Nukem CD. She quite a
piece... ...professionally dressed (always a plus `cause it usually means she's got *some*
money), golden blonde hair, very nice figure, and SHE was the one that started-up the
conversation. Well, don't `cha know our lord immeditely ran out to his classic van and
grabbed a copy of Duke for the lass... ...even giving up his place in line to do so. When
he returns, the gamerette was already sitted. With the urbanity of a true swashbuckler, he
hands het the CD and she responds... ..."Oh! Thank you! My husband LOVES this
game!" Nose-dive city, ...few survivors expected! While we're here... ...Giggler cute?!? If the Rolling
Wieder's groupie knew he requires 16 AAA batteries each day, she'd sing a different tune,
me thinks! He does say "Mutha"" when you push in his stomach, though, and
that's a plus I guess.
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26 January 1998 |
Sad news indeed... ...not many of you knew him, but
he was a hell of a guy. Dennis Scarff has passed away ;( I knew him at Apogee and,
although I only shared smoke breaks with him throughout the year, I really was heartbroken
to hear that he's gone. Those of us that knew you, sir, were more than pleased to ride
with you! Okay, on to brighter things. The Tribe
of Ritual is surely the humblest and never do they sing their own praises or sit on any
thorny laurels. However, I'd like to thank the incredibly sightful people at Computer
Gaming World for naming "The Scourge of Armagon" as the Best Add-on Pack of 1997
(March 1998 issue, pg 89). There's even a bit about "arguably the best deathmatch
level." or something like that ;)
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