With Monkey Island getting a lot of re-hype lately I think it’s only fair that people remember how great LOOM is. Released in 1990, it was a Lucasfilm Games fantasy adventure game that blended a great story with highly enjoyable, non-annoying gameplay (you can’t die, you’re never forced to completely restart the game and you’re never crowbarred into hours of trial and error). You play as Bobbin Threadbare, a member of the Guild of Weavers venturing throughout the land learning and casting spells on your musical staff to solve problems and ultimately important mysteries. A great moment in computer game history.

A screenshot tribute to April O’Neil - the character with a great outfit and a keen nose for a story who is almost constantly getting kidnapped/captured/trapped/held hostage. She is constantly sticking her neck out for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and being rewarded with a pretty hard time, what a downer of a lifestyle.

Being captured by a mutant fishman and dragged through the sewer to a sleazy nutbar genetecist who is planning to turn you into a mutant fishwoman is a pretty rough ride.

A few days ago I was listening to the original version of this track on a pair of $2 earphones and somebody came up to ask me something so I took one earphone out in an effort to be polite. Noticing how good just the right channel of this track sounds really outshone anything this person may have been saying.

Christine Perfect “No Road is the Right Road” (Roulade’s Wrong Road Right Channel Split)

i have had this purple velvet jacket for a while and am pretty into it but don’t wear it that often because it’s on the verge of being a feature item. on friday night i went to my lovely girlfriend jeni’s work drinks at *AN UNDISCLOSED “CLUB”* and it was an 80’s-themed party. so i wore the jacket, two swatches and marty mcfly’d my jeans into a pair of white and silver concords. i have attempted to display what i was wearing below (nb: had a black t-shirt on so the t-shirt and jeans formed a monotard look a la salt n pepa, as seen in the marvel post):

the following exchange takes place out the front of the venue:

Guy: Hey mate, that’s a nice jacket.
*Guy’s mates laugh*
Me: Thanks.
Guy: Yeah, it’s a really nice jacket.
*Guy’s mates are now pissing themselves laughing*
Me: Yeah, thank you.
Guy: I really, really like your jacket. Hahaha. It’s really good.
Me: Thanks. I like your shoes.
Guy: Really?
Me: No.