TEXT PLAY: Final Fantasy IX (PlayStation, 2000, Square-Enix): Issue #071: Caves of Pandemonium

And it only took me TWO months to get back to this this time, too!

MiSTing: Digimon: Digidefenders Episode 5, Part Three

After a bit more of a delay than I had intended, it's time to wrap this chapter up so I can move on to the next chapter in the series. Hopefully, it won't be so long before I get there.

In the meantime, let's get to finishing this one, shall we? In going over this part one last time, it seems I didn't put in any further mostly direct pulls from the Red Green Show, which is probably for the best. The host segments in this part are some of my favorites, at least from my own work, and I still say the first one here is my all-time favorite of them, though the lodge meeting ending is pretty good, too.

There's also what I'd call my personal favorite riff from my own work here, too. It's the “I'm an idiot” one from almost the end. For as much amusement as I still get from that line, it also makes me kind of sad that it seems at least as true, if not moreso, now than it was when I first wrote it more or less twenty years ago.

There's some historical notes to go along with the sense of nostalgia I get from writing these wraparounds, but I'll save those for the end. For now, we've got moviesign!

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Looking Back Quickie: The Weather Channel

So I guess the Weather Channel has been around for 40 years now.

Better Than A Week Ago

A quick update on the last bit of entirely new material I put up.

MiSTing: Digimon: Digidefenders Episode 5, Part Two

I'm going to start this one off with an apology. There's been a bigger gap between the first part of this one and this second part than I had intended, on account of real-life issues coming up over the last couple months. The good news is that it's not as big a gap as I had feared when I rediscovered the hard copy I was working from on my desk during a recent mini-fit of cleaning I was doing, which I talk about in this post from not too long ago. Never the less, it happened, and I do apologize for that.

Because there was that gap, here's a link to part one of this chapter, for anyone who might want to have a look at it before moving on with this one. A lot of what I was saying there is a good place to start here, too.

As for this part specifically, upon reviewing the previous part and the part I'm putting up now, I've come to think I may have done both the more or less verbatum jokes from the Red Green Show in the previous part. I say this on account of not finding them here, and it's been a good couple months since the last part. This is not to say there won't be more almost direct pulls from one of my favorite shows in the last part. It's just been awhile, and I need to reread that last part again.

This part is mostly setup for what comes in part three, at least in terms of the part I wrote. The big running gag in this part is my own real-life poor vision. I've needed, and worn, glasses since the sixth grade, and by the time I wrote this in the early 2000s, I really couldn't see worth a damn without them. The fifteen-plus years since then haven't exactly improved that situation.

There's more to say about this, of course, but that'll be for the endcap to this. See you there!

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Bit Of A Cold

I seem to have picked up a bit of a cold someplace.

Cleaning And Organizing

I've been doing a little cleaning and organizing around my apartment lately

Picture Post: Still More Half-Assed Art

 Just to get something posted here, really.