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I realize I haven’t blogged in about two weeks and that you’ve needed your fix. But I derive great pleasure from watching you squirm.

Sorry. I was hallucinating and was in a beautiful world where people gave a crap about my blog. Okay, back to reality.

Last weekend I was in New York City for the Smart People junket. Here’s what you need to know:

• Traveling First Class is awesome but not worth the price. With the exception of the hot towels and pre-flight drinks, people in coach should get the same kind of seating and comfort of the people in First Class and the people in First Class should get oral sex from hot stewards and stewardesses. Also, those little pilot wings. I miss those.

• Smart People is an awful movie.

• Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Thomas Haden Church are all really cool people because they were so excited and curious about the student in our room who was doing the junket for Carnegie Mellon University where the film was shot.

• Rich people are chumps. I get a per-diem so I don’t mind spending money since it’s the studios and it’s not like I get to keep what I don’t spend. However, if I ever paid $6.50 for a 12oz bottle of Coca-Cola, I would just keep the money, go on to the street until I found a homeless person (you don’t have to look far in New York City) and say, “Fuck you!”

• The Nintendo World store is still Mecca for Nintendo fans and a haven for black market Wiis. They have the popular console every morning. They only allow one per person, but you could just walk in, buy a system, sell it on eBay and double your investment, rinse, repeat. Do that and you’re looking at about $1,250 a week all because Nintendo doesn’t know how to run manufacturing plants.

However, while I was standing in line to buy Power Up energy drink (which thankfully did not taste disgusting) and a Mario figurine, I overheard the people behind me being retarded. They described the Super Nintendo as “so-so” and I’m surprised I had the restraint to not just turn around and pummel them in the organs. But then they kept going and said that the only good game for the Nintendo 64 was Goldeneye 007 at which point I had no choice but to turn around and shout, “Ocarina of Time!” “Oh yeah…” the guy dumbly responded. He then went back to his conversation of ignorance and said that “the mario game” for the 64 wasn’t that good. Again, I gritted my teeth and decided it wasn’t worth the energy explaining to this pile of worthless that Super Mario 64 was a revolutionary game and it basically determined how we play 3-D games today. All he’s ever determined is that people who don’t know what they’re talking about should shut the fuck up.

The Monday following my NYC-jaunt, I finally, finally, finally got an XBOX 360 and I am the happiest boy. It literally hurts when I have to pull myself away from it to do things like “work” and “eat”. My friend Carl has been so great in sending me free games and these aren’t crap games no one in their right mind would want to play. These are Gears of War, Rainbow Six: Vegas, Dead Rising, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, and Guitar Hero II (sans guitar, but I’m buying the wireless one anyway when I get GHIII). He’s also sending me The Simpsons Game and a few others. I treat the guy horribly but you couldn’t really ask for a better friend–one that gives you over $200 worth of free videogames and DVDs. If you have a 360 and want to challenge me online, here’s my info in convenient gamertag form:

Tags: stupid, videogames //