I, Splotchy

Friday, January 11, 2008

Long Division

Ed Begley Jr. - Long Division

This Is The "Go To" Place For Images Of Lipstick

From reading my site usage statistics, it appears I have had a lot of random visitors come to this blog in the last couple weeks via a Google image search for lipstick. The ordering of my image will probably change over time, but it currently is third in the search results.

People clicking through the image to my blog are landing on a particular Unconnected Tuesdays post.

The strange thing is that people finding my website in this manner will usually spend a few minutes on the post, perhaps trying to find a connection between my lipstick picture and the prawn.

I would like to take this opportunity to welcome all lipstick visitors and indicate to you that, as far as I know, there is no connection between lipstick and prawns.

Love,

Splotchy

Nuclear Slim

John Malkovich - Nuclear Slim

I Have To Admit, Netflix Is Quite Nifty

I don't know that I'll devote a space to regularly recount or review DVDs I have watched from Netflix, but I would like to express my happiness thus far with getting movies in the mail.

So far, I have watched You're Gonna Miss Me, a great documentary about one of my favorite musical artists, Roky Erickson.

I am watching Season 1 of the BBC Helen Mirren series Prime Suspect. As the first episode on Disc 1 ended, MizSplotchy turned to me and asked me if I thought the case Mirren's character was working on would probably take the rest of the season to solve, to which I excitedly replied, "I don't know!" Soon after we finished Disc 1, I moved Disc 2 up to the top of my queue. I was happily surprised to see a young Ralph Fiennes, as well as Tom Wilkinson, who played Mirren's boyfriend. Having only seen Wilkinson play roles in movies like In The Bedroom and Batman Begins, I was surprised that he was a British actor with one of them British accents. Oh, those cuddly Brits and their adorable accents.

So much goodness is ahead -- Jacques Tourneur spooky films, Jean-Pierre Melville film noirs, some documentaries recommended by Chris, some older horror movies, over-the-top Japanese action movies, boy howdy.

Movies is good.

Captain Whatshisface

Kevin Spacey - Captain Whatshisface

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Arcade Quiz (Mano a Mano)

I was asking myself, what have I done for Evil Evil Genius lately? Well, I know what I haven't done.

Yes, it's time for another arcade sound quiz!

All of these games share a common theme.

In each game, you control a protagonist that uses his or her bare hands to lay some serious smackdown on some deserving fools (or as Mr. T would say, "foos").

I'll give you the year the game came out along with the sound sample. A few of these games have some relatively primitive voice samples, for all you primitive voice sample fans out there.

Mano a Mano 1 (1982)
This game is pretty fun. I think the music should give it away.

Mano a Mano 2 (1984)
I would rarely get past the third level (okay, to be honest, the second level would give me lots of trouble too), but this game was tons of fun.

Mano a Mano 3 (1987)
Believe it or not, though I am the first to admit I am a terrible arcade gamer, I could easily finish this game on one quarter. Yes, I used the magic elbow move that basically made you unstoppable.

Mano a Mano 4 (1988)
This game might be a little obscure. I used to play this at the Spaceport arcade when I was going to school at University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana. No, I did not have any friends.

Mano a Mano 5 (1992)
I was working in an arcade while I was at school down in Carbondale, but I stayed away from this game. It scared the crap out of me with its complicated controls. I started playing a couple years ago via the MAME emulator. I suck at it, but it's fun. If you can recognize this game, I give you permission to give me crap for not doing a fatality.

Oh, I just thought of one more that I wanted to include!

Mano a Mano 6 (1984)
I wasn't very good at this game (surprised?). This game's controls were a little unusual, and in some ways were a precursor to Mano a Mano Game #5.

UPDATE:

Answers posted!

The Incredible Head

George Clooney - The Incredible Head

quickgivemeadoodleidea

firstcommenteriwthanideagetsthatideadoodled

UPDATE!

For Freida Bee -- George Bush when Dick interrupts his watching Gilligan's Island to tell him he can't be president anymore.

(Cheney has still not finished his ice cream cone from a previous doodle.)

Mr. Shambles

Harry Dean Stanton - Mr. Shambles

Dr. Improbable

Rene Auberjonois - Dr. Improbable

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

A Doodle For The Night Owl Or Early Bird

G'night.

When I awake, the first commenter with a doodle idea gets that idea doodled.

UPDATE!

For Manx -- A night owl punching an early bird.

Rainbow Mysterious

Judi Dench - Rainbow Mysterious

I Don't Know If I Mentioned This Before, But January Is Meme Month

Beth tagged me with a seven-facts-you-don't-know-about-me meme.

I thought I would use this opportunity to clear up some lies (and one truth) I spread here.

1. I started this blog in Feburary of 2007.

Not true.
Though looking at my archives, it appears I have posts that were created in February of 2007, my first actual post was done in March. I used the month of February to build a Choose Your Own Adventure story, which I created in July, 2007. I was creating a lot of content-related posts that I wanted to group together, so I thought it would make sense to group them together in a month where I hadn't done any posts.

If you enjoy reading all the pages of a choose your own adventure story without bopping back and forth between choices you make, you can always read mine like this.

2. Bun E. Carlos, the drummer for Cheap Trick, is my second cousin, and I see him occasionally at family functions.

Not true.
Sorry, I don't even know the man.

3. I have a tattoo of Jonny Quest on my left shoulder.

Not true.
I don't have any tattoos, but a Jonny Quest tattoo on the shoulder wouldn't be a bad idea.

4. I am afraid of squirrels.

Not true.
I had my hair cut outside by a relative in preparation for my brother's wedding (she didn't want to hair up the house). A squirrel was very interested in us, and my hair dropping to the ground. She was very frightened of the squirrel, but it didn't really bother me.

5. One winter, my brother and I built a snow fort in our front yard that was so large and elaborate it was photographed for the front page of the State Journal Register newspaper.

Not true.
I built a snow fort with my brother one winter, and it was really cool, but it probably wasn't that big, and it didn't get photographed for the paper.

6. I verbally insulted Steven Seagal on a hotel elevator after he drunkenly stumbled into me without apologizing.

Not true.
But wouldn't it be great if it was?

7. I am looking forward to a relaxing meme-free February.

TRUE!

Celebrity Superheroes

It's scary how close this blog is to my brain. For some reason, I was thinking of Dr. Phil on the way into work today. I then thought, what would be an appropriate superhero name for him?

So, a new feature is born. I'm not planning on thinking too hard about celebrity superheroes (or supervillains) -- I won't wonder about their powers, costumes, arch-nemeses, what have you.

I'm just going to give you what I think would be an appropriate "super" name for them.

Since this is my first celebrity superhero post, I'll give you three.

Phil "Dr. Phil" McGraw - The Octopus