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DODDODO is from Osaka:



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delerium

So this stomach thing has turned out pretty terrible. I spent all night awake in a cold sweat and all day in the fetal position, eating saltines and drinking coke.

For some reason the foods I most desperately want to eat are the very ones that will quickest be expelled from my body: pasta in vodka sauce, yogurt and granola, and cheesburgers have been floating through my mind - as if dangled by Satan himself to test my resolve.

So, sadly, I could not partake of the deliciously evil Japanese curry I so craved. Some day I will - and when I do there will be pictures of it here. For the moment I'm going drag myself into bed. I think the oatmeal I just ate is staying put pretty well, but only time can tell. Read more!

Not feeling so hot.

So there's something wrong with my stomach tonight. Something vile. Something that wants to take the teriyaki chicken I made for supper and rocket it out of my body with the stregnth of a wood-chipper .

I was going to edit this video of me playing through an arcade game, but I need to nurse myself a bit here. Tomorrow I'm going into the city to meet a friend for some Japanese style curry. It's like... fried things and rice mired in a swamp of delicious. Basically, I'm punishing my colon for not behaving. Maybe I'll have soup instead... Read more!

Charlie Turned 29

Today* is** my brother's 29th birthday! This means he is one year away from being older than I could ever conceive of my brother being. That day should be exciting, as one of our heads will surely explode.

In the meantime, here is the small comic I made my brother for his birthday:
Blogger, as always, keeps the resolution terribly small... so click that shit.

*yesterday
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Oh, and one more thing:

I'm sitting here with my sleeping cat. He is OUT, man.

Unfortunately he fell asleep with his head on my elbow, pinning me to the sofa:


So I guess I'm not going anywhere for a while. He's pretty adorable - at least, when he's asleep. Read more!

SNES Junkie

I'd rather not formalize this any more than I have to. I know it's customary at NA for a junkie to stand and make a declaration of his vice. We all know the format.

Instead I will, honestly, come clean: I'm back on the SNES. I started using yesterday, and everything's pretty much been a blur since. A gloriously magical, pixelated blur.

And there is something magical about Super Nintendo. Something that numbs my mind. It could be that the many small triumphs that come with a SNES game are a favorable alternative to reality. Maybe its the connection I have come to feel with the small teams who created these games. Maybe staring at an eight inch flickering, distorted little person for eight hours tricks my brain into a coma.

I come from a family of alchoholics with eating disorders*. Somehow I've managed to avoid all the traditional addictions that have wilted my family tree. Today when I stumbled out of the dark basement I cought a glimpse of myself in the mirror - unwashed, glasses akimbo, eyes glazed over, pupils dialated - and I realized that gaming for me isn't just a habit, it's an addiction.

*also they're great people. Just so you know.

I started playing Chrono Trigger yesterday. I have beaten it nine times already, twice not including "new game +". I am 18 hours in, and on track to beat it tomorrow. Read more!

Out-take

Oh man. I've been fixing little things on my porfolio website, and sweet god has it been tedious. I find that trying to work the kinks out of sloppy code is a bit like trying to build a sand castle one grain at a time.

Since I'm too tired to do anything creative, here's an outtake from that last video!




Cursing aside, that video was really fun to make. I'm thinking about making more / starting a youtube channel. Can you dig it? Read more!