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My roommates and I are commissioning a painting. We wanted something utterly ridiculous that incorporated the three of us into the picture. Some ideas that were originally thrown around were:

• The three of us riding three boars like horses, fighting some sort of dragon. (This would be happening in outer space)
• All three of us riding one giant squid in the ocean
• The three of us, as firemen, saving kittens from a burning building

We eventually decided on the third. (I am still hopeful that someday we may also commission one of the others). The artist that we hired is our friend Jen’s little sister. She turned in a rough sketch last night, and I am pumped about it.

(We specifically requested that there be a person still in the building that we consciously did not rescue, because kittens are cuter.)

Since Wordpress (the software I use to run this blog) is written in PHP, it is very hackable (to me). After having to sort through hundreds of spam comments cluttering up my moderation queue, I decided to hack together a makeshift spam filter. Hopefully it’ll work as planned, but it might delete your legitimate comment, especially if you start talking about xanax or viagra. Anyway, just a heads up. In these beta moments, let me know if you make a comment on my blog so I can make sure it didn’t get deleted.

I realized today that I have too much money on my hands. I realized this because I found myself about to purchase five copies of Hydlide for $10. Hydlide is possibly among the top 10 worst games ever made, but that’s okay, since I wouldn’t be buying them to play, I’d be buying them to hang on my wall. I’m still gonna do it. But damn, there are bored children in Africa that need this game.

Fuck ‘em. I’m buying five copies of Hydlide for ten dollars.