Ramblings and musings of John Zeitler.
At 8:09pm, I cleared the final stage of Elite Beat Agents on the DS at a difficulty level of “Cruisin’” (two stars of four; the maximum difficulty available on a fresh copy of the game). This is the first game cleared in 2007. This is the first game cleared of three needed to break my moratorium on purchasing new games. The next game that is closest to completion is Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, followed by Final Fantasy XII.
One of the most irritating things about television is the advertisements. They’re a necessary evil, of course; the alternative is all-pay television, which actually wouldn’t be so bad if there wasn’t the problem of getting everyone to pay for it. But some advertisements go too far. Case in point, a particular advertisement for a cut-rate car insurance company known for having a stupid jingle. The most recent set of ads for this company are positively fixated on this jingle. This would not have attracted my attention except that I happened to notice the name plate on the desk of the presenter. It read “Bill Lumbergh”.
Immediately afterwards, a second commercial came on with the familiar (to me, anyway) sight of snow coming at a windshield. The familiar strains of the Star Trek theme began playing, sans Shatnerlogue. The camera zoomed back to show the inside of a Hummer.
And that’s when I started screaming.