The Undead Have Left the Building....

Yep, kids, the dead have indeed returned to their cold graves and the festive holiday of Halloween has come and gone. Although I didn't get to do as much as I would have liked, I certainly had a darn, foolhardy, good time!

Ya know, usually the day or so after Halloween is ridden with cold, gloomy, wet, crusty weather. It seems to be like that every year. It's like a sign that the good times of the year are done and that the times of long, cold darkness are about to be ushered in and shall stay for a good six to eight months. But this fall it is a bit different. It's almost as though the season doesn't want to give up on the Halloween holiday. As I drove into work every morning this week, I was blessed with wonderful fall colors accentuated with a golden, warm sun. People still had their Halloween decorations up, as if to say, "To FRELL with the upcoming "festive holidays". We want more of the season of the dead!" Sorry, not for another eleven months. But it is nice to enjoy a few more days of seasonal beauty. Very soon we'll be cursed with the usual "winter wonderland" that this region experiences every year. So enjoy the nice weather now, before the winter hell arrives and puts us all into a perpetual depression. Bah-frellin'-humbug!

Since things are back to "normal" around here after the dead took the blog over and the Halloween theme is done with for the year, what shall I geek it up about now......

• Here's a very quick review of the Xbox video game, "Darkwatch". I rented this puppy a few weeks ago and did enjoy it! However, there were a few things that could have been improved. The game is basically Halo in a very creepy, visually stunning, old wild west. The settings and art direction were incredible! Yet, the single player mode goes by quite quickly. I think I finished it in about 8 hours. And there's not much replayability to it after that. Since I'm not much of a multiplaying fanatic that a lot of the Xbox Live crowd are, I didn't go too deeply into the multiplayer modes, but it looks as if they have quite a boatload of levels and options. If you like playing Halo on Xbox Live, then you gotta check this game out as its control scheme is very much in the same vein as Halo. In the end, though the visuals are wonderfully disturbing and creepy, this game is aimed more toward multiplay rather than the single player mode that most FPS (First Person Shooters) of the past seemed to be aimed toward.
• Guess what I went out and bought Tuesday night? If you can't answer in under three guesses, what the frack are you doing in this Blog of Geekdom? STAR WARS, EPISODE III: REVENGE OF THE SITH DVD, FERCRYINOUTLOUD!! What do you think? "Steel FRACKIN' Magnolias"? Haven't watched it yet, but come Saturday afternoon, I'll be in Darth Sideous haven!
• Here's another friggin' death notice for us geeks... Michael Pillar, creator of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is dead. Not much of a Trekkie myself, but my heart, once again, goes out to them.
• Speaking of "out" and Star Trek.. Howzabout that little announcement from Lt. Sulu last week? You go girl! Not that there's anything wrong with that!
• Oliver Stone is making a movie about 9/11. I'm sure that the cocaine addled director's movie won't be biased at all. No more than a Rush Limbaugh radio show. Sensors say: PROPAGANDA ALERT! PROPAGANDA ALERT!
• So there's a new King Kong flick coming out on December 14th. Usually, I'd roll my eyes and ignore it with all the other monster/horror movie remakes that seem to be plaguing our movie screens lately (The Fog anyone? I didn't think so.) But this puppy is in the hands of none other than "Lord of the Rings" god-man, Petter Jackson. Plus it stars Jack Black. So I doubt highly that this thing is going to suck at all. In fact, I'll predict that this may even be better than the original!
• Nothing's really come of that whole Podcast idea for this blog yet. I'd love to do it, but I lack the computer power and technical skill to do it. But, there's still a drive and still some talk. We'll see where this leads.
• Still not done with friggin' "American Gods" yet. But I'm darn close, by cracky! Hope to finish it off tonight or tomorrow. Then you'll see a review for the book as well as one for "Silverfin" which I finished a while ago. Be patient.

Whelp, that's about it for tonight. Commons up: A review of those two books that I slugged through for the last 6 months (yes, I am a dullard!), plus I'm sure I'll find more stuff for me to grump and complain about that you can all ignore. See ya later.

Zangz.