So much stuff to cover! Eek! Well, since you may be wondering about the picture, I would like to announce that the trifecta that is Blizzard's awesome franchise's has finally consumed my soul. After the announcement of Diablo III (which looks AWESOME!) I finally broke down and bought Diablo II. Which is totally sweet. Now I know what everyone has been talking about! It's very sad to note that I am now playing less WoW because I'm playing another Blizzard game. Curse you Metzen and you're engaging worlds! The picture on the right is of a Barbarian from Diablo III. I'm playing a Paladin in II right now, which is awesome. It's amazing how much the design of WoW is based on Diablo mechanics. It's neat, and Eric and I will have to play some time soon.
I will be back in New York on Monday. I'm taking a red eye flight, which is very uncool, but also very cheap, so it balances out. I'll have Monday to recuperate before going back to work.
I obtained an external hard drive today. I got it for the cheaps on buy.com, and now I have 320 gb of space! I moved 20 gigs of iTunes TV shows over today. I'm still trying to figure out what to do with all of that space, but I'm sure I'll think of something. Dual boot anyone?
I've been buying some of the parallel Secret Invasion stuff, and it's actually really cool. They all tie in to the 3 or 4 main storylines, so buying the extra stuff really fills out what's going on. My favorite one so far is Nick Fury's motley crew and his eventual return. That guy rocks. Admittedly it's a little hard to follow it all, because each series jumps around between the stories from issue to issue, but hey. That's marketing.
Lacey was out here for the weekend of the funeral, and a bunch of us went to see WALL-E. This may now be my favorite Pixar movie. I loved it. Absolutely fantastic. If you haven't seen it yet, do it. Everything about it is top notch, but the visuals really took a leap forward in my opinion. When I saw the ruined earth at the beginning of the movie, I decided that Pixar should make a fantasy movie. It would be awesome.
Also on the subject of movies, my good friend Nick invited me to see Hancock last night. This was also a great movie, and one of the great things about it is that really doesn't end like you'd expect it to. It was an original concept for a Superhero movie, and it was very well executed. If you're not into the mainstream beat em ups like Hellboy is sure to be, check out Hancock. And if you are, still check it out. It's cool stuff.
I've been thinking a lot about trying to run a Superhero RPG campaign next year, when I remembered that I "obtained" a copy of the Mutants and Masterminds rules on my computer! There's a whole lot of them, obviously, but I'm going to check them out. I think it could be a whole lot of fun.
All in all things are going well. I've noticed that I've bought more stuff recently than I usually do, but hey, stuff is fun. Tomorrow I'm going to help my mom make Cherry pie! Hurray! Hopefully I can work a little more on the Superhero Horror comic I'm tinkering around with. I'm trying to finish a rough treatment, and then break it into panels when I have the whole story. We'll see if that's an efficient or effective process. It seems like it will be easier, basically have a rough draft that I can then arrange into a real script. This is where my other attempts have fallen short. I don't know why I didn't think of it earlier. I've seen a few scripts lying around the office, and some have alot of description that isn't necessarily for the panels, but are just outliney story kind of stuff.
Also, Doctor Who is intense. And it had better still be David Tennant. IMDB says it will be, but we'll see. Paul, if you know, tell me. The suspense is painful! I will leave you all now. For the Horde!
