As I recall, and can piece together from historical fact. I got the NES title Dragon Warrior for Christmas 1989. My dad and I played that one together a lot, and more accurately, he completed the game and I watched. Fair enough, I may have been too young to properly grasp everything going on in there anyhow.
On New Year's Day, I recall us spending the entire day down in the basement, where the NES lived, chipping away at that game. At least all during the day up until dinner, which was a turkey-and-all-the-trimmings kind of spread, which my mom cooked while she watched the Macy's parade and we hid out in the basement, hitting slimes with a stick, hoping to earn enough money for a copper sword in case a wolfman showed up on our way to Ridmular for keys.
Anyhow, just thinking of that. I hope everyone's having a SpooooOOOooky ThaaaaAanksgiiiviing!
This went well. Comrades and strangers alike told me so.
And then there was cake.
(FYI: A machete is not a liquid.)
I would estimate, if I had to, that my apartment contains something on the order of 1500 hours of media that I have not yet consumed. That's in terms of physical objects: books (hardback and paperback), DVDs (films and TV series), video games for various consoles (PS1, PS2, Gamecube, Wii). Factor in ISOs of PC games (those would be images of the CDs, because storing them as data is more convenient than lugging CDs around) and ROMs (which would be similar data, ripped from old videogame cartridge formats (2600, NES, Genesis, SNES, GBA, etc) and that number skyrockets. And still, corporations keep churning out more of this stuff.
..I wonder what kind of sponsorship deal I could get to start really tacking the load. Nike? Everlast? Craftsman Tools? Are you listening?
SOLVED: The crickets get in through the vent/fan unit in the bathroom ceiling that can not be turned on!
SOLVED: The mysterious NY phone number (646.308.0915) that calls me thrice a day but never when I'm at liberty to answer belongs to the publication Videography, that would like to give me a free subscription!
SOLVED: The reason, according to a small note slipped into my food, that people admire me (and I had been wondering) is "for being such a charmer!"
SOLVED: You don't really hear anything new from rock supergroup Moxy Früvous these days because they went 'on hiatus!' In the year 2000!
To Abby, from North Carolina by way of San Francisco visiting Los Angeles for almost-free, who quit her job and her home and her old life to have another one, who waited patiently in line for the 7:00PM Sunday free showing of ASSSSCAT on October 21, 2007 at the UCBLA, who could not believe the show was free, who has read the Alienist and wouldn't expect anything less than a raw smoothie and has a red messenger bag with the Full Frame logo upon it: the word was PICARESQUE.
(This is a modern-day message in a bottle.)