IT'S OFFICIAL: THE UNIVERSE IS SERIOUSLY F**KED UP!!!!

I've been a bit vacant on this here blog lately.  I know that it is especially strange since the Halloween season is starting to rev up and I'm usually blogging like a fiend during this time.

The truth of the matter is that our Halloween season has run into a bit of a snag.  Actually one big, huge frackin' snag!  To put it in a nutshell without divulging too much personal info, some people I care deeply about and who help celebrate the holiday with me every year are going through an unexpected, quite harrowing time in their lives.  The news of the situation had us all decrying "THE UNIVERSE IS SERIOUSLY F**KED UP" (origin of quote goes to my friend Iris Von Beaverhousen).  Though I'm more than confident they will be more than capable taking on this challenge that life and the f**ked up universe has put in front of them, I still feel a little silly celebrating Halloween when they're dealing with their life altering situation.

Originally I was all out going to not celebrate the holiday at all.  No pumpkins in my windows, no local haunts visited, no pumpkin carving, no decorations, hardly anything at all except for a few horror movie rentals (since I already had them in my on-line movie club queue (pronounced queef for those of you not in the know.)

I wasn't quite sure how to approach Halloween this year and not much in the mood to do anything at all, when a wise sage told me, "John, you're Mr. Halloween!  I'm pretty sure your friends would want you to celebrate Halloween, still."

I thought about this for a while and came to the decision that Zangz's Blog of Geekdom  will still celebrate Halloween here!  It might be somewhat more subdued compared to years past, but I'm still going to throw up some Horror movie reviews, perhaps a spooky tale or two and maybe, just maybe, at least one local haunt review if luck should shine my way.  One thing I do plan on doing is attending the Type O Negative concert in late October!!!!!  They're making a special Halloween tour of 10 cities and Milwaukee is one of them!!!


At the end of the day it all comes down to my friends kickin' ass and taking no prisoners in their great challenge.  I'm not sure that by my sitting on my ass in a state of depression and Halloween deprevity will make things any better.  Hopefully they'll be checking out the blog and get a good dose of the Halloween spirit (pun lame, but still intended) here.  I'm still not completley sure that this is exactally what they'd want, but a geek has got to get his undead love on durring this season.

Hope it's all good.


In other news, I've been told that my buddy Bruce is putting his finishing touches on his review of this year's DragonCon and could be posted here within days.  So keep a heads up for it.  God, I've got to go one of these years.  Anyone have any extra lottery money lying around?


Also, I've finally finished the main quest of Fallout 3. I've also finished the extra content of Operation Anchorage, The Pit, Point Lookout and am currently starting up on Broken Steel.  I'm hoping that they come out with a disc for Mothership Zeta.  'Cause that would complete the whole game for me.

That's all for now, kids.  I know it's short, but I wanted to fill you in on the situation here in the blog.

Before I go I want to ask one quick question to you all.  Is it wrong for an adult, heteralsexual male geek who usually listens to the likes of  Iron Maiden, Dream Theater and Type O Negative to pick up a copy of Lady GaGa' "The Fame"?  It's not like I have, or anything.  Honest!  It's a...er...a freind of mine who has.  Your thoughts? 

Zangz.