Barely Remembered: Pac-Man Cartoon

Originally written in March and early April, 2018, but not posted before CA's Community Blogs came down.

Barely Remembered: Monchichis

Originally posted November, 2016.

Barely Remembered: Dungeons and Dragons: The Animated Series

Originally posted September, 2016

Barely Remembered: Rubik's Cube Cartoon

Originally posted February, 2017

Barely Remembered: Pole Position

Originally posted October, 2016.

Post Number 700: Holy Shit, It’s A Dinosaur!

I may as well do some of this now, even though the fourth anniversary of this blog isn’t officially until November 6.

College Jobs: Office Max

If the summers I worked at Mt. Rushmore were the best I ever had, the summer I worked at Office Max was the worst.

College Jobs: Mt. Rushmore

Not the first of my college jobs, but certainly my favorite, and most likely one of the best jobs I’ve ever had.

My College Jobs: Introduction

Here's something I've been considering doing for awhile now.  Might as well, just so I'm posting more than just video game stuff.

Where Has The Spark Gone...? Part One

You know the one, that keeps things like this fresh and fun for everyone involved.

From The Old Floppies #20: MiSTing of "Digimon: Digidefenders Episode 5", part 3

Well, here we are at the last part of the last thing I think I've got to post from my old files.  I had honestly intended to have this up well before now, but we all know how life away from the blog can be, and sadly, that just didn't happen.  Once again, for those of you who may have been waiting, I do apologize for the amount of time this took.

We'll be starting this off with what is probably my favorite host segment of all the ones I ever wrote while I was doing MiSTings.  I was, and still am, really, a Red Green fan, and the Adventures With Bill segment was one of my favorites from the show that at least used to run on PBS here in the States.  Writing a host segment where I combined that with playing pinball in an arcade was really fun.  I don't recall how well it actually went over with the audience, but I enjoyed writing it.

Also, my favorite single joke is in this part, as well.  I think you'll know it when you see it. 
So, without further ado, here's what may well be the last thing from my old files.

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From The Old Floppies #19: MiSTing of "Digimon: Digidefenders Episode 5", part 2

I should begin this one by apologizing to those of you who have been waiting for this.  I've been busy with things offline lately and have just been forgetting.  I suspect I've also forgotten something else from my FTOF series as well.  I'll look into that and fix it as soon as I can.  Until then, let's get down to business on this one, shall we?  Italics read in Majel Barrett's voice, a la the Star Trek computer.

Last time, on JMST3K: Digidefenders Episode 5: Jesse and Leomon dress up as characters from The Red Green Show to keep from getting beaten up!  The Commander sends a team of two to Japan to almost meet the Tamers!  A giant Boarmon goes on a rampage in Shinjuku!  And Jesse loses his glasses to Renamon in a failed attempt to impersonate Red Green!

And now, the continuation...

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From The Old Floppies #18: MiSTing of "Digidefenders Episode 5" Part 1

There's more to the title than that, but we'll get to see that in a bit.  First, though, I think I should set this up for context.

The last one of these I posted was of a junk email from late in my career as a MST3K fan writer.  One of, of not the, last bit of fan fiction I based such a thing on was a fan-made series based on the third season of the Digimon franchise, titled Tamers, which is worth checking out.  The series author went by the handle Phantom1, and, as memory serves, was part of the MiSTing community as well.  There was a general solicitation that went out for fans of Digimon Tamers who were also MiSTing authors to apply the "treatment" to the first so-called episode of the series, and I took the call.  I rather enjoyed the original story, and Phanto, as I called him, and I struck a deal to continue the series, both with and without the commentary, as long as we could.  This arrangement lasted a surprisingly long time, all things considered.

What follows is not only my favorite in the series, but also my all-time favorite amongst the MiSTings that I personally wrote.  So, here we have part one of three or four of Digimon Digidefenders: Episode 5!

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Freeform Writing

That's what I started this blog for, and why I was curious about the video game stuff before.

From The Old Floppies: Issue #10: Selections from "MacKedzie's Journal", Part One

There are some things that make me realize I've made a few mistakes along the way to getting into this whole blogging thing.  One of those things is a project I did in 2003 and early 2004 called "MacKedzie's Journal".  Essentially, it was a thinly disguised blog that I was doing on Fiction Press.  These were barely-fictionalized tellings of various things that had happened on a given day.  I suspect that an early form of Blogger may have been around at the time, and if I'd have been using it then in a way even remotely like I do now, I may have actually gotten somewhere with it all.

Of course, at the time, these were simultaneously more personal and more negative than they should have been.  Perhaps it's for the best that they were buried on FP and eventually taken down not long after.  And all this gets me to thinking that perhaps I could have put them on LiveJournal, which is something I'm constantly forgetting that I have an account on, as well.  Maybe one day I'll post excerpts there that I don't post here.

In the meantime, however, here the first two of maybe four or six randomly selected chapters my proto-blog for your perusal.
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From The Old Files: Issue #06: MiSTing of "A Day In The Life Of The Pizza Cats", part 3

Here's the third and final part of this thing.  I remember having a good time writing this originally, to the point that I even did an "episode guide" sort of thing for it.  I'll be posting that after a while, too.  But now that this is pretty much said and done with, I'm pretty much out of history that can't wait until the next thing that comes up, so without any further delay, here's part three.

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From The Old Floppies: Issue #05: MiSTing of "A Day In The Life Of The Pizza Cats", Part 2 of 3

Here's the second part of three I'm going to be doing this one in.  Breaking it up into parts like this is how we used to do it for the Usenet Newsgroups, which were still way more active at the time.  There's still at least one around, that I know of.  It's called RATMM, or rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc.  Used to self post there every now and again, but had to do it in parts because the old newsgroups were created at a time when most folks still had dialup Internet with slow download speeds and limited message size and space.  That's why I also liked submitting to archive sites.  That way, people could get whole things like this as one big piece if they wanted.  Plus, as I've mentioned before, I liked WSN9's rating system.  The good thing about the newsgroup is that it allowed for comments a little easier.

But anyway, here's part two of the MiSTing.  This time, we pick up with the first host segment and go through the first part of the story.  The end is the second host segment, which may date this a bit, with the implied commercial for Windows XP.

I hope you all enjoy this part and the next as much as you seemed to enjoy part one.

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From the Old Floppies: Issue #04: MiSTing of "A Day In The Life Of The Pizza Cats", Part 1 of 3

What we've got here is one of the Mystery Science Theater-style fan fictions I wrote back about eight or ten years ago now.  By the time I did this one, by an author named Claudia Nimmich, I'd been doing my "self-insertion" series, where I used myself as the main character making fun of the movies, junk emails, and fan fiction typically used in this sort of thing instead of the TV show cast, for a while.  The first few I did, including the one "for reelz" movie I ever did one of these for, were supposed to be "live action", where the actual living, breathing, human me who's typing this, albeit in an alternate reality, was actually sitting down in an actual movie theater purchased and renovated specifically for the purpose of making fun of these things and doing exactly that.

This "Day in the Life" story was the first one where I had switched the setting to what would become the standard model for what would become the rest of the series, with a few exceptions.  As stated in the intro dialog, the switch happened magically one day when my character plugged in an arcade game in an attempt to get people to come visit the theater and watch things with him.  Conveniently, it worked.

Regarding other style notes, at the top of the piece will be the headers used for classification on Web Site Number Nine, which was, for several years, the premier archive for fan MiSTings, until its closure in 2002 or 2003, I can't remember which off the top of my head. (Here's an article I wrote on the subject at That Guy With The Glasses in 2010.)  At the end, there's a "credits sequence" mentioning the references I was trying to make and who I thought they were copyright to, but that's a post or two out.

This particular entry item is more than a little on the long side, being 34 pages long.  Therefore, I'll be dividing it up and posting it in parts over the next few nights.  So, here's tonight's installment: Part one of Day In The Life Of The Life Of The Pizza Cats", featuring the short, a junk email called "New Wave Services".  This is just the short.

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Coming Soon -- January/February 2012

The last entry like this I posted here didn't work out the way I had hoped, but I'll do another all the same.

Now I Remember Why I Want This To Work

It's not that I ever forgot really. I just needed to be reminded.