In the Steak World, Tommy is King

We live in troubled, confusing times where emotions run high. Yet, one voice of reason persists amid the chaos. I watched this 11 second video and now I have hope.

Hard Core Kitty Story of the Day

So, I saw one of the many hardcore kittys that lives next door to me do something totally awesome yesterday. This kitty was playing with a baby mouse, watching it run around and then pouncing on it. I was driving by, but I had to stop and stare when I see a kitty doing something this hardcore. This kitty took the baby mouse in his jowls, threw it up a good six inches above his head and then swatted it to the ground with his paw. To top it off, the kitty then walked away slowly without even looking at the baby mouse again, as if to say, "you have provided me with ample amusement. I am done with you now."

My Judgement is Passed

After about two years of non-stop deliberation, debate, and Cheetos, I have finally decided beyond a shadow of reasonable doubt that above all Mortal Combat is the best game ever.

Law School

What do most people (non-law students) use the Law School for on weekends? A bathroom. The End.

My Top Ten Favorite Magic Cards #1

I doubt anyone had any doubts that Kiki Jiki would top the list. When I first started playing Friday Night Magic, I built a kick ass standard deck around this guy based on a weird anti-affinity list that won a random tournament. I have such great memories play it, meeting Adam, Ken, dragon shirt guy, Calvin, JD, and Thad and cutting my teeth as a tournament player. I loved how the deck was powerful with it's comes into play creatures like eternal witness and also played such quirky cards like Rootrunner. After Kiki Jiki rotated out of standard, I had to keep a Kiki-Jiki deck together and it got even more sick with a greater card pool.

Even aside from the amazing synergy this card has with Eternal Witness, Kiki-Jiki is a steamroller of card advantage that left unchecked will overwhelm opponents quickly. Sure, it's triple red casting cost, small power and toughness, and legendary status are downsides, it's because this card would be bonkers if it were any better. With haste, it's already impossible to avoid getting knocked around by it even if you do have instant speed destruction. And then it has such incredible resilience with creatures that return cards from your graveyard to help ensure that Kiki-Jiki will stay on the board to outlast all of the destruction your opponent can throw at it. The only real way to stop it is eradicate. Damn you, Tommy!

Honorable Mentions


Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre - One of the most ridiculous multiplayer creatures ever printed. You have to love Rise of Eldrazi for shit like this.


Stalking Yeti - Another critical cog of the babykiller deck and another one of those cards that people always had to read. It may be the poor man's flametongue kavu, but it's also a freaking yeti that is always checking your Facebook page.


Flametongue Kavu - Or maybe Flametongue Kavu is the rich man's Stalking Yeti. Bling Bling. Stop reading this blog immediately and raise the roof for Flametongue Kavu. Thank you.


Sakura-Tribe Elder - So critical for almost any deck playing green. The most versatile and powerful modern ramp card.

Sacred Mesa - Pony Crater is such a great thing to do with all that mana that control and multiplayer decks accumulate and it's so good against mass removal. What's not to love.


Thousand-year Elixir - A tricky, but fun build around card. Really enhances creatures with right kind of abilities.


Ensnaring Bridge - I had to have at least a shout out to the discard deck and this may be the most hated card from that deck. Back in the day when all we played with were creatures and creature removal, this deck would completely shut down the game. If only Alex can draw his one disenchant . . .


Ink-eyes, Servant of Oni - Isn't it so much fun to ninjutsu this guy into play returning a white Myojin to reset its divinity counter and being able to pull a woodfall primus from the opponent's graveyard?

I Don't Want to Live in The Real World

It's strange to me how there are a ton of niche markets for video and computer games from interactive fiction to roguelike rpgs to baseball stat sims to modern adventure games that are expanding gradually. However, it feels like many of the mainstream game making companies are making the same game over and over again with slight tweaks. I think many gamers are thirsty for innovation and diversification, yet the gaming companies are too afraid to stray far from the norm because they are afraid it will hurt their bottom line. Gamers are more sophisticated that the companies are currently giving them credit for and this great article provides an example of one game that has bucked the system (at least graphically) and succeeded on a fairly large scale.

Call out

Dear Mr. Highway Melon/Inspector Gadget/FishWish4Bubblez/Goat596/Frog/MoonMilkPaladin79/LouisLouisForPresident/HighwaymeloN/Biblofroghermit/Terrorist A.K.A. Joey Waalkes,

Stop changing your name. It makes the homosexual, hippie, vegan, Mexican, minority, communist, socialist, democrat, Muslim, unwashed, Black terrorists win.

Sincerely,
Sir Thomas Edward Cicero "Blufflo Wings" Waaflus Waalkes II Jr.

Ps. Billy shut the fuck up.

Happy Electroween!

Trying to put together an all electro Halloween album with little previous experience with the genre turned out to be more difficult than I imagined it would be. However, it was fun, I learned a lot, and I came up with a list I enjoy. I tried, when possible, to include tracks from pioneers of the genre. Of course, any Halloween list is an exercise in subjectivity. There is kind of a bipolar tone/vibe when it comes to the holiday. It can be both chilling and truly horrifying and completely silly and over the top. Complicating this is the fact that everyone has different memories/experiences with the holiday so different sounds/tones will evoke the holiday for some and not others. Additionally, musical tastes can vary dramatically from person to person. All this to say, your "mileage" may vary, however, I hope you can find a few things to enjoy. Anyway, here it is:

Electroween Mix 2009:
1. Scary Tricycle by Silent Fish Heads
2. The Haunted House of Rock (Remix) by Whodini
3. The Horror by RJD2
4. Tubular Bells by Book of Love
5. The Bog (dance mix) by Bigod 20
6. Testarossa Autodrive by Kavinsky
7. Old Castle Madrigal by Joy Electric
8. Nothing to Fear by Depeche Mode
9. Shadows by Midnight Juggernauts
10. Ghost House by Teenage Bad Girl
11. Zip by Julian Jeweil
12. Talk Like That by The Presets
13. Ballo dei Morti by Brassica
14. The Talking Dead by Weird Tapes
15. Asylum by Gary Numan
16. Poisonous Friend (Iris remix) by Seabound
17. Ultraviolent by Cinnamon Chasers
18. The Hidden Door by Belbury Poly
19. Circus of Death by The Human League
20. Beyond the Dark by Raiders of the Lost Arp

More to come soon!

Facebook Rant

I have a love hate relationship with facebook. At one point I can and keep in touch with tons of people I would not otherwise be able to. And on the other hand, Facebook and most of the people I know on Facebook in a very passive agressive way say "fuck you, I'm not wasting the energy to associate with you" or "I risk social bastardization talking to you etc" where at the same time they feel socially obligated to friend me so to be polite. Anything anyone says to you over facebook, generally may or may not have any meaning, but you can never tell for certain.

Por exemple, Someone you haven't seen in a long assed time messages you and wants to hang out.
Alright you were bored that weekend and had nothing going, but the thing is, do they really want to hang out, or do they just want to talk and have nothing to say? The lack of voice and the inflection makes it difficult to tell what the hell their true intent is. I mean even over I'm you kind of tell how someone's thinking by how quickily they respond and how long they spend typing vs. how long the message is, but on facebook you see nothing of the process it took the person to write their message. Some things, like hey how's it going or what's up, people say not out of politeness but out of habit. The irony is that when people say that in person and somewhat over the internet, they're saying hi and don't give actually give a shit about how your life is going at that point in time.

Another bit that drives me up a wall is how and when to respond to messages. Should you wait a bit and not look like a frikin low life stalker, should you respond immediately and catch while online, If you were offline and see it latter should you not respond or respond later. Okay here's an example of everything I'm talking about: Billy messages me and says "oh man it's been so long, we need to hang!" I've only talked to Billy twice before, he's an okay kid but we weren't really close. See if I respond immediately, I look like I was waiting for someone to message me since I have nothing going on, thus I'm a loser. I can wait a while to seem less desperate, then I'll look like I don't want to speak to him, thus looking like a dick. Or do I message back immediately thus looking like a stalker. In short, CALL ME or AIM ME instead of facebooking since then at the very least I can psyco analyse you more easily and I can judge the level of your sincerity. Here I'll post my cell number on here... (my aims already up)