I was just thinking

So I was just thinking, now that the retrograde is over we should all buy new houses, have anonymous sex, propose for marriage (its ok if you already got married its just fun!), sign legally binding contracts, and call up loved ones who live in far away places, all at the same time! It should work out wonderfully without Mercury to fuck things up. Right?

Obama Roasts McCain!

This little gem was tucked away in some comments on Crooks and Liars. It was from earlier this evening at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, a stop for most presidential candidates. Quote of the night:

"I have never, not once, put lipstick on a pig, or a pitbull, or myself.
Rudy Giuliani, that's one for you. Who would have thought a cross dressing mayor from New York City would have a tough time running the republican nomination? It's shocking. That was a tough primary you had their John."

It's funny because it's true... and so sad...

Since you think the cup is dead: Death in L.A.

I wrote this poem tonight as an exercise for my English 208 class. We were given the poem in its entirety minus all the nouns and verbs, we had to fill in the blanks. The class seemed impressed with mine, one girl said it was excellent, I must admit I had to hold back a tear as I read it aloud, even if it was just an exercise for some, for me this is my life. If its slightly incoherent, you know why, I had very little creative freedom with the structure, I could only put in the the nouns, and verbs (in one case we were allowed to use an adverb, hence the kill myself gradually line). Ill include parenthesis for the text that is truly mine. And by the way, the cup aint dead until I die, and even than, nothing ever dies, just transforms into something else.

(Death) in (Los Angeles)

(Apathy) (climbing) into you
from (Skid Row), or (Santa Monica),
or (CSUN)

It (appeals) to you, asking
for (money), (alcohol), (beauty),
(double barrel shotgun made of cotton candy)
your (hand), a (whore)
or a (saint), (innocent and devout), (blind and bound)
the (prisoner) you know.

That is, (death) knows you.
It always asks, (are you happy)?
(are you empty)? (are you ready)?

So I (see) through (Hell)
I (kill myself gradually like HIV inside of a fresh host)
(Flies) all around me
I live with (spiders)

Cyrusse is alive! Or at least undead.

See? Undead. Har har.

Well, since I couldn't even find a post made by me, I figure it's been a while. In my absence I've been learning that being the unofficial TA for a class is not all cookies and rainbows and ponies (it totally should be!) and attempting to deal with grad school admission stuff. I've discovered that trying to write essays about myself makes me go a little braindead. And Berkeley is rude and they want a statement of purpose and a "personal history statement," and I'm still not exactly sure what needs to go in which. If anyone can think of any convincing reasons that the public policy department should accept me or ways to express my general coolness, please let me know. It's a pain in the ass... Maybe I'll post my essays when they take on some sort of cohesive form.

Oh, and I've been making wingalings for my Halloween costume. Don't ask me what the rest of it is. Something with bat/dragon wingalings, that's all I know.

Horror Dump!

It's october! Guess that means it's time for all things creepy, horrific, and "dark" to come to the consciousness of everyone in the world. So I've decided to bring the cup community a little something to get the ball rolling.

First, for all you RE fans, here are some VERY cool trailers for RE5. I never did play through 4, but I know everyone else here has either directly or vicariously. I put myself in the later category.

Anyways, here's an official RE 5 trailer:


Here's an unnofcial trailer which shows a some gameplay...looks hectic to say the least.


I personally think it looks like they're taking the formula created for RE4 and pushing it forward. I mean, with all the added military stuff and crazy mob fights, looks intense. But I must say, what's up with Wesker turning into Neo? Meh, guess he's been going that way for sometime.

The following trailer is for a game called "Dead Space," which released yesterday. Pretty much, it looks like someone decided it would be a good idea to make a game out of Event Horizon. It does look rather freaky.

Dead Space 'Launch' trailer

So there you go, zombies in space and in Haiti. I guess the zombie craze is just getting started.

Mercury Retrograde mention on CNBC

Hmmm, this is interesting. What does it mean when a major news media outlet makes a mention to Mercury Retrograde? It is kind of cool (and comfroting) to know that there are people in the market sector who are aware of this stuff. I hadn't even thought about it, but yeah, the timing of all these financial woes does correlate with Mercury Retrograde. Beyond that, it makes me wonder how the bailouts being decided right now will affect the future...

Hit the link for the vid, the mention comes fairly early and the last half is just financial stuff:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=875316256

New Diablo III class - The Wizard

via Kotaku and RPS (Rock Paper Shotgun)

Looks like Blizzard have announced the third class in Diablo III, the Wizard. Seems to be a mashup of the Sorceress and....well, I'm not quite sure what else, Assassin maybe? Judging from the video the wizard seems a LOT more badass than the sorceress ever did. First check out the Wizard trailer at Kotaku, then have a peek at the youtube vid below:

[Edit: was able to find an embeddable Wizard trailer]

Diablo 3 'Wizard' trailer

[Here's some gameplay footage]


Looking at the trailer...I can't help but form an opinion clouded by all those people out there criticizing the art direction. The more stylized look is new...BUT I will say, I like the direction the gameplay seems to be going! These classes just look sick. And I guess the gameplay is what's most important in the end. Besides, will Lorigga actually play this one? Seeing as how he managed to get through the first two...and has waited many a year for this...he hopes to make that time...but we shall see.

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UPDATE 10/14/08 @ 1:00 pm

New vid released demonstrating more Wizard abilities

Diablo 3 'Wizard Effects' trailer

Well, blink was an assassin ability. And that forcefield one...that's new. As well as the deathray!

Nice spin on the mage/caster class for hack 'n slash...not that I'm some authority on the matter. In fact, I have the least authority about games these days considering how much I play them. Guess I'm almost ready to study them in an academic environment where I think about games and manage not to play them. =P

Hopeless hours

Oh hopeless hours!
Are they not still ours?
To hold and embrace
For all time (and space)
To store in our hearts
Like Night keeps the stars
So she won’t forget
The tears that she wept
While cruel Day just slept

Oh hopeless Day, with empty skies!
Your sun has been feeding us lies
With promises of love and peace
That it does not intend to keep
Happiness it can deliver
With a shot from cupid’s quiver
But the drugs effect does fade
Than we seek out Nights cool shade
In the dark the dream can end
Why did we try to pretend?
Cold lonely moon doth understand
The feeling held in empty hands

The Why and How of the Current Economic Crisis or Shadow Market Goes to Town

So I came into this video having no idea what the hell was going on with the economy. I knew that there was some sort of trouble and that people were calling this the kind of disaster that occurs every 50 or 100 years. I had no idea what caused it or why. This clip explains exactly that in really simple terms. My next thought is, if this can be explained so simply, then why was this ever a problem? Was simple greed enough to ignore the obvious fact that if everyone is betting on bad investments to not fail, with no capital to back up the bets, that betting couldn't last for that long? It truly boggles the mind and hurts the knees. Hooray for shadow markets! [via Crooks and Liars]

Happy Birthday What!

Happy Birthday What! I hope your having a good one. This image is what popped up when I typed in "ta-da" in google. hehe. Eat some cake and get drunk!