Do Your July 4th Resolutions Yet? [Weekend Note]

<p>To: Luke<br /> From: Owen<br /> Re: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://kotaku.com/5022208/is-it-a-girl-or-a-boy-it-is">Is It A Girl Or A Boy? It Is......</a></p> <p>We had a patriotic if abbreviated weekend here in the Tower. Some publishing glitches and such but that's getting to be par for the course now. I did my July 4 resolutions last night (in which I revisit the New Year's Resolutions I never kept) and have decided I'm gonna start and end each day with 30 pushups. Plus, no more eating directly from the fridge. Everything I eat has to go on a plate. I'll let you know how all this goes. I'm a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner.</p> <p>Oh, for gamers in the Bay Area, there will be a comedy showcase this coming Saturday custom fit to gamers' perspective. It's being emceed by Jeff Reitman, a pal of mine from the San Francisco Comedy College, and will feature a lineup of comedians who have worked in the games industry. You can get <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/37337">tickets online</a>, and if you use the Konami code (UUDDLRLRBA) in the coupon code field, they cost $10 instead of $12. The show is on the 5th floor of 414 Mason St in San Francisco, and I'm going to be there (but not performing).</p> <p>Finally, I should point out that when things <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://kotaku.com/5017925/impressions-the-bourne-conspiracy#c6530669">got a little wacky</a> in the comments of yesterday's Bourne Conspiracy impressions, I challenged <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://kotaku.com/people/ChickenOfTheSea/">InsidiousTuna </a>to find a clip of the Chuck E. Cheese Rock-afire Explosion band jamming to "Smell Yo Dick" by Riskay. Tuna couldn't produce that, but he did find a wonderful Sims 2 mashup of the song, featuring the titular girlfriend olfactory inspection of the genital area (and, from what I can tell, some retaliatory dutch-ovening). I put it after the jump, just to be safe.</p> <p>Some highlights this weekend:<br /> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://kotaku.com/5022371/yes-this-is-the-chrono-trigger-ds-trailer"><br /> Yes, This Is The Chrono Trigger DS Trailer</a><br /> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://kotaku.com/5022341/games-today-we-do-melodrama">Games Today: We Do Melodrama?</a><br /> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://kotaku.com/397936/rumor-dueling-rock-band-2-tracklists">Rumor: Dueling Rock Band 2 Tracklists</a><br /> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://kotaku.com/5022278/performative-play-games-and-the-real-world">'Performative Play': Games and the 'Real World'</a><br /> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://kotaku.com/5022282/fifteen-minutes-on-wikipedia-is-like-a-semester-at-yale-if-yale-was-a-wow-server">Fifteen Minutes on Wikipedia is Like a Semester at Yale, if Yale was a WoW Server</a><br /> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://kotaku.com/5022269/from-the-margins-to-the-mainland-the-future-of-virtual-worlds">From the Margins to the Mainland: the Future of Virtual Worlds?</a></p> <p><br /> </p> <p><iframe class="embeddedvideo" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/urpMQ-2KNho&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></iframe></p> <p>As a YouTube commenter in a <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S9kzTXBYzM">Lion King Smell Yo Dick mash-up</a> put it (yes, and they also have an <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXrUA5mNZHI">Ed, Edd & Eddy Smell Yo Dick version</a>): "Oh no. You found out I was fucking another girl by smelling my penis after begging frantically. How dignified of you." Quoted for truth.</p> <br style="clear:both;"/> <img alt="" style="border:0;height:1px;width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=6ed409e7110cf9e7cec4081376164931" height="1" width="1"/>
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