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I'm a huge fan of Dark Shadows (the original series, not that abomination of a movie). Ive often been tempted to buy the collection, but it's only ever been on DVD. I keep hoping they'll one day put it on Bluray. I'd buy that in a heartbeat.
Anyway, the other day I was in the Paulmart (as the boy calls it, for some reason), and they had a 50th anniversary DVD set. It's got six discs: one "best of" each for Barnabas, Quentin, and Angelique, one collection of fan favorites, and two collected stories of how Barnabus became a vampire and the introduction of Quentin as a ghost haunting Collinwood.
So even though it's DVD, I still picked it up. And I've been indulging. I figure it'll tide me over and give me my occasional DS fix until they wise up and put the entire series run on Bluray.
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Thanks to my friend, The Monkey, I was reminded that I did not possess all the books in Time Life's Enchanted World series. In point of fact, I only have 9 of the 21 book series. This is, of course, unacceptable.
So begins my nefarious plan to fill in the gaps. First, I go old school - my next visit to Half-Priced Books shall, with luck, bring me success. After that, Amazon shall be my friend.
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Incidentally, when I was originally collecting the Enchanted World, I was also collecting Mysteries of the Unknown. That was another excellent series of books. Eventually, however, I had to stop collecting both. Just a year or two back I got rid of my Mysteries of the Unknown books - a small regret.
Funny enough I did the same. I was collecting both as a teen/young adult, but then I got rid of the mysteries of the unknown series. They were fun books. I can't remember why I got rid of them. They might have been victims of my first divorce actually. My first ex-wife, the one who recently died, sold a lot of my stuff while I was in boot camp /AIT and unable to retrieve it.
I find I have little time for video games. I kind of miss the MMORPG experience, but nowadays it's all microtransaction cheats :/
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I like the simple games that I can play with just me - no online cooperation needed. It lets me set my own pace/schedule. Plus, this Angry Birds game is one the boy plays as well, so it's a bit of a bonding exercise.
As a bonus, it's a great occupier of time when I'm pooping.
All that being said, if the option to game in person with living folk ever again becomes viable, I'll get back to it in a heartbeat.
Yeah me too.
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Whooee it is hot in Wareham today...
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To a look at voting for the ENnie's awards. They must really only want people voting who actually give a s~+~ enough to. The format is really involved - list of links for each category, then you follow the link to the list, where they have the names of the products. You have to then click on each product name to get information on it. Way too much forwards and backwards for me. I've got better things to do with my time - for example, trimming my toenails.
In the end, those awards just aren't important enough for the hassle.
Whooee it is hot in Wareham today...What? Like 100+ degree hot?
90 ish. With soupy humidity ~100%
I am headed for a quick nap and hopefully some lap swimming later
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Did some major tripping and cutting back to two of the bushes in front of my house. They are planted next to each other and keep growing high enough to obscure the address numbers on the house. So I got out there this morning and cut them down to about half their height. Sweated my balls off, but it was worth it.
Now, I'll just have to keep trimming them back once a week, and they shouldn't get too high again. Plus, that makes at least an hour a week
I'm outside doing something.
Got the swimming in, plus a good session at the gym. Kind of list motivation at that point, but I feel accomplished, considering I only got three hours sleep
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I saw that the new Ghostbusters movie underperformed at the box office. It was beaten by an animated movie in its second week. Personally, I find that awesome. I keep hoping Hollywood will get it through its collective head that pointless, badly done remakes/reboots are a stupid idea.
That's not to say all remakes are bad. The new Planet of the Apes film series has been excellent so far. Way better than the Tim Burton one.
I haven't seen the new Ghostbusters movie yet.
I actually think that I will enjoy it, all the clips I see with the new actresses are funny.
Is it supposed to be a follow-up to the original? Or a re-boot?
I'm cool with a 'new generation' ghostbusters thing, but endless remakes are beginning to annoy me. ;P (How many batman/spiderman origin movies do we need?!?) ;P
I DID get to see the new Tarzan with my wife last week. I liked it.
But I'm a fan of the old school tarzan movies (and original books) so it would have to be pretty bad for me not to enjoy it at least a little. It was an enjoyable adventure in the world of Tarzan.
Minor spoiler:
(Meaning, no way were some of those swinging tricks even remotely realistically achievable, no matter how strong your arms are, but they were he!!a fun to watch!
Hopefully I'll be able to go out and see some more movies IN the theaters before kids school starts back up again.