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I <3 Bungie

In case you’re wondering what that is. It’s a link to one of my side projects, Halolcats.com (seriously–go there right now, you won’t regret it!) And it’s on the front page news section of Bungie.net…which just happens to be the official page from the devs that made the awesomeness that is the Halo series for the XBOX and XBOX 360.

I was also stoked to discover that the super special extra bonus disc in my Legendary copy of Halo 3 has an awesome compendium of cinematics from the first two games which you can watch in order, or by chapter.  For the lazy among you, this is pretty much the best possible way to refresh your memory before heading into the third game.

A wonderful assortment of odd Halloween gear @ Target

October is my favorite month of the year. Not only because it’s my birthday month, but it’s also chocked full of holiday goodness, including Halloween, which is the best time of year to stock up on cheap candy and kitsh. In Target today, the place was absolutely overrun with Halloween junk. I snapped some quick spy shots of my favorites from my iPhone.

Food and Drink

These eyeballs look great, and are sure to scare the shit out of unsuspecting mothers everywhere. Equally creepy, and pictured to the right, are the candy finger suckers, which are strange, and have a wonderfully discomforting fleshtone no lollipop should have.

(Read on for more, there’s much to be seen.)

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Oh. My. God.

Yep. That’s mine. And yep, that’s T-mobile you see up there in the carrier area. As a colleague of mine said today “Well, enjoy it for the week or so before they figure out how to lock your shit down.” Until then, I’m loving this thing.

Photos by Donald Bell.

Shit I wish I hadn’t bought two of (part I): Puffs Plus w/the Scent of Vicks

Tissues are important. Our nose is a veritable nozzle for all sorts of strange stuff, and you’ve got to put it somewhere. I’d easily consider them my 4th favorite paper product ( right behind 1. toilet paper, 2. paper towels, 3. Origami paper), and by god if I haven’t gotten stuck with some shitty tissue boxes in my day. That’s why when I saw these suckers at the store the other day I had to pick up a box. Mainly because they were one of the three types without god awful looking flowers on them. By the way, if you’ve been to the UK, they have “Tissues for Men” which are about twice the size, an extra ply, and have boxes that have been “designed with the man in mind.” Figure out what that means.

Back to the point–this box looks serious. Like medicine serious. They’re so serious they need a super hero/anemic child with no eyes to smell them in the advertisements (seen on the right). The outside of the box features what looks like guitar picks (actually Vicks logo silhouettes), adorning a cool aqua-marine swoosh that wraps around the entire thing. This is far more impressive and visually neutral compared to some of those flower boxes, and by god I needed to buy one.

Unfortunately a) they smell like cough syrup and b) I bought two boxes.

The problem is these things are meant to be therapeutic, but as a side effect, the 3-foot radius around the box smells like cough syrup. Even worse, using the things makes your hands smell like cough medicine until you wash them (which theoretically you should be doing quite often if you’re actually sick) .

Dammit.

Internet People

This has been making the rounds around the office today. I’m sad to say I recognized about all these references short of about five or so. That makes abundantly is clear I need to get out more.

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