The Dandy Lumberjack and His Mighty Beard of Wolfskin and Boot-leather

Like all enterprising young boys, I looked forward to the day that I could enjoy a full beard; one that beamed of strength and menace and the chopping of nature. However, I think I might officially throw in the towel on the concept entirely!

Being a nomadic individual that fancies the rejection of your utopian ideals such as job-having and job-working, there was no time better than the present to give bearding another go. Though I cannot scientifically explain the phenomenon in which my facial hair only grows in the style of “gay retail manager” or “gay poet what works a retail job on the side,” I can pray that this is not a portent of the future and present an artistic representation of my face in the form of a pseudo-scientific diagram.

Surely I would shave it off, had I a straight razor and some relieving salve.

In Which I Bear Witness to a Wii Accident

I know, I’m also sick to death of hearing about or seeing pictures of Wii injuries, broken televisions, and pride shattered in the wake of improperly swinging a damn remote. Though the ship sailed on these long ago, I can’t help but show you something I taped last night; something that happened a mere 11 seconds after I turned on the video camera for some innocent recording of my friend, who had never played the system before, playing tennis in a woefully constricted area. No more spoilers.

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Not Technically TV Games

What should portable games be called? They’re certainly not Television games! Here are two new reviews from yours truly, just posted over at Got Next:

Cartoon Network Racing (DS)
Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (DS)

(spoilers: one sucks and the other is awesome)

I swore up and down that I would never buy Pac-Man on Live Arcade, but I woke up one morning about a month ago and there it was, purchased by a far more intoxicated man that was obviously trying to piss me off. Anyway, I’ve been playing it, and right now I’m trying to get the final achievement, which involves “perfecting” a level by eating all four ghosts four times. I am not very good at this!