Showing posts with label Staceys Pop Culture Parlour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Staceys Pop Culture Parlour. Show all posts

Saturday, July 2, 2016

Free Books, Trips To The Parlour, And More Ego Tipping

As part of  the 8th annual Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale; which goes from July 1 and runs through July 31, I am offering T.U.M.G.S. #1 FREE! So go over and check it out, download, send to a friend, download and send to many friends. Then if you like it #2 and #3 are available for $1 each and #4 will be out on Dec. 22nd. For one month only, thousands of Smashwords authors and publishers will provide readers deep discounts on ebooks, with coupon code levels for 25%-off, 50%-off, 75%-off and FREE so its a good time to pick up some reading outside the powerful shadows of the big publishers. Did that sound all mysterious like? No. Crap.

Also while I have your attention Stacey's Pop Culture Parlour is doing another 24 hour podcast for charity. This is one of my favorite podcasts. This time the great podcasting ninja herself is doing so to benefit the Alzheimer's Society. So check it out.

Save SPCPL2 to your browsers folks!


Oh, and I started my own podcast here also. Just saying.


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Monday, July 2, 2012

Where I talk about a past project that got me some good hate mail, a Culture Parlour, and healthcare.



No game update this Monday because I didn't get the chance over the weekend to play any games.


Today though is a good day to di.... promote myself.

     
     Paychance Opening Sunday Thoughts was a vignette story that I released a few months ago. It got me a lot of hate mail but also some really good emails of support and so I'm giving it a shout out again. It's free so give it a read and let me know how much you extremely hate me or like me or don't care.


CHECK OUT THESE LINKS:
     A new episode from one of my favorite podcasts Stacey's Pop Culture Parlour episode 5. I was listening to tons of podcasts for a while but when I stopped going to the gym I lost those moments of doing it. I need to get back to listening to a lot of them because they are so cool and also because I need to hit the gym more. Too bad I live in a shit hole that calls itself luxury apartments but they can't add straight or get anything fixed. I might not be too bright but I don't think they have ever looked up the word luxury. Putting aside my living space and lazy ass you should check out Stacey's Pop Culture Parlour, its really cool.
    SciShow brings the science because that's what it does. Electromagnetism - Electrostatic Force: The Four Fundamental Forces of P...
     Here's a couple of SMoring Show And Tell episodes: SMorning Show and Tell #2: Clerks Program and Black Pearl Ring and SMorning Show and Tell #3: Ex-Girlfriend's Mom's Note and Some Awards. Then try some SModCo Cartoon Show: SModCo Cartoon Show #6: PFK and SModCo Cartoon Show #7: The Bryning.
     Check Hank Green rehearsing his Vidcon show: VidCon Set
     Legend Of Neil Episode 3
     I love Are You Serious? and if you are a big wrestling fan from the past and present you should watch it too. RoboCop to the rescue! - "Are You Serious?" - Episode 21
     Hey The Celtic Warrior is a Liverpool fan. The Celtic Warrior Lives for Liverpool - "Outside the Ring" - Episode 7
     Good news for one of my favorite writers on a book I loved a lot, THIS IS NOT A TEST by Courtney Summers is optioned for a TV movie. Options are options but this is really cool news. And if you haven't, do yourself a favor, read the book.
     I love xkcd and this Moon Landing comic had me laughing.
     Electromagnetism - Magnetic Force: The Four Fundamental Forces of Physic...
     My all time favorite Valiant book was Archer & Armstrong and its coming back. As with all of these new Valiant books I'm going to watch for the trades but I will probably pick up the first trade volume of all of them.
     I had a lot of fun watching Euro 2012. Spain was the best team once again and are now in the discussion of best teams ever.


RANTS AND SCREAMS:
     You know why the Supreme Court ruling on healthcare means nothing to me. I still can't go to the doctor, still can't go to the dentist, still can't get much needed help with health issues. Until there is universal healthcare for all, people will keep dying in pain with the way to save their lives within reach. And this is not a day for people to be telling me "You run on about dental care. No one has ever died from not going to the dentist." Now that sort of stupidity is what people should die from. Obama Care is a step forward but only a step. One little and hardly noticeable step.
     A true healthcare system should be preventive. Our systems have always treated diseases and illness{and not very well}. A universal health preventive system would save money by keeping people healthy but healthy people doesn't make big companies money and dying poor people don't matter.
     I give the United States ten years before we are split into allied country states. I don't think its going to be as glory filled as a civil war but a matter of paper work. The frame works of that are being laid now and future riots and deaths to come with be the signatures on the paper. In a few months I will be taking a week off from the internet, the world. Put it on my calendar two seconds ago because I'm really disgusted and ashamed to be a part of the human race right now. Our cats show more of a sense of reasoned thought, joy, and love than a lot of this country. Former GOP Spokesman: 'Is Armed Rebellion Now Justified?'
   When a business is so incompetent that they can't add one and two together with a calculator then its not someone you want to deal with in the future. How do these people keep getting jobs and I can't find one? I might be a ugly lunch box cud but I can at least add with a calculator.
   
     


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Monday, June 4, 2012

Where I Talk About Madden 11 FS1 G2 Bulldawgs Vs. Texans and I go on and on about John Green.



Madden 11, Franchise Season 1, Game 2, Bulldawgs Vs. Texans


Bulldawgs-42 Vs. Texans-87


     *We drove down and scored with our first touch of the ball but they did the same and that set the track for most of the rest of the game. We were in the game for most it offensively but our defense seemed to only stop them when they also stopped us; which keep us from recovering from their early three touchdown lead. We were only behind two TDs going into the 4th Quarter when we started to turn over the ball and our defense totally fell apart.
     The good news is Tebow had a hundred times better game under this new offense passing but my defense really needs to approve so we can run the ball with actual running backs and risk a few 4 and outs but right now we're in a mess that says we need to score every time we have the ball.

     STATS:
Passing
- T. Tebow/22comp/46att/348yds/4tds/3ints/
- D. Dodge/5comp/9att/74yds/2ints/ {injured at the beginning of the 3rd quarter}
Rushing
- T. Tebow/195yds/26att/2tds/
Rec
- G. Olsen/9rec/176yds/2tds/
- M. Bundy/7rec/87yds/1td/
- R. Cooper/4rec/50yds/1td/
Defense
- D. Carson/7tackles/
- A. Oguanleye/5tackles/3sacks/


     *Found out D. Dodge will be out 7 weeks so we picked up Kyle Boller as a free agent QB on a one year contract. Going into the game with the Texans I set our defense to be way more focused on stopping the run but we still gave up 200+ yards to one of their running backs; so I switched from a Bears defense to a Ravens D. Hopefully that will work. This whole season is a experiment so that's work I'm doing, trying to find our way. Maybe our improved play will improve even more next week against the Rams.


Next Game:
Bulldawgs (0-2) at Rams (0-2)




Check out these links:
     John Green Swindon Town FIFA fun. How To Be Friends After a Breakup: The Miracle of Swindon Town #121 The History of My Breakups: The Miracle of Swindon Town #122
     One of my favorite podcasts. I always listen to it as fast as I can when it's updated. I wish it was weekly. I mean come on, any podcast where you hear someone say "Top tits fantastic" in a sexy voice. You really shouldn't let yourself miss that.  Stacey’s Pop Culture Parlour: Episode 4
     Another treat for those people out there who love it when I talk about sex or mention fisting or the such or link to things about fisting or the such or just say fisting because I know it pisses if people I know read my updates. No fisting in this video though, just talk about quickies. Having Sex: Quickies #3
     Wil Wheaton is the only person who could get me interested in table top games and this episode also includes Felicia Day. Munchkin: Felicia Day, Steve Jackson and Sandeep Parikh join Wil Wheaton...
     Some Vlogbrothers fun: Top 5 Ridiculous Conspiracy Theories Top 5 Actual Conspiracies The Top 10 Greatest Hoaxes of All Time
     Oh, and if you haven't gotten enough John Green in this update you can download a book he has online for free. It was part of a charity project they did. Zombicorns is just a awesome title for a book.


Rants and screams and such:
      When neighbors blast music I decide I'm too busy to do dishes right now and will have to do them at around 3am. Then the dishwasher which shakes the joined wall like a Tesla invention will signal my love back. And yes that is passive aggressive but regular aggressive involve disembowelment.


     A quote: "The Venn Diagram of guys who don't like smart girls and guys you don't want to date is a circle." John Green.
     You know I've mentioned John Green so much you'd think I had a crush....and I might. Love all the Vlogbrothers and Crash Course shows. Now I just need to read one of his books. Mar owns all of them and keeps telling me I need to read them so I can pull one off the shelf any time I want. I will probably do that as soon as I'm through my current stack of reads and to reads.
    
     Mar a couple days ago was happy that I used a Oxford Comma in a Tweet. I think in a way her excitement was an insult? I'm even more sure after I looked up what a Oxford Comma was.


     
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Friday, April 27, 2012

Where I Give a couple cheap and quick top five lists. Otherwise known as blog laziness.

*not really top five lists, more like just three lists of five things I like. Just check out these things because if I start writing too much here there wouldn't be any point of doing a cheat blog entry to begin with.

5 Podcasts:
Geektress
Stacey's Pop Culture Parlour
Nerdist
Radio Rashy
Pod Crash

5 Webcomics:
Unshelved
Girls With Slingshots
The Garlicks
xkcd
Moon Freight 3

Web Shows:
The Guild
Hank Games
The Flog
Husbands
The Legend Of Neil



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Monday, April 23, 2012

Where I talk about the Bulldawgs second Pre-Season game, palour voices, and John Green {who I’m starting to mention in every blog title}


Where I talk about the Bulldawgs second Pre-Season game, palour voices, and John Green {who I’m starting to mention in every blog title}

I think I’m going to do a blog entry each Monday after playing a game on Madden on Sundays. Stop by here on Mondays and maybe I have something to update you with. Like how much I suck at defense on these games.

Ravens-13 Vs. Bulldawgs-42
The second game of the pre-season was played on All-Pro level. It was harder than the last game but I’m hoping when I move to All-Madden for the last two pre-season games and the franchise it will step up even more.
I say that now. After about six loses in a row I’ll want to quit and play MLB The Show or something else.
Madden 11 seems to move a little quicker or smoother than Madden 08. It seems to greatly favor running the football too, which is ok to me. My offensive philosophy is basically use three running backs to attack the defense, pass to tightends and running backs. Then open up things with bombs down the field from time to time and keep everything else in chaos by using the quarterback’s ability to run.
That’s why my N.F.L. all time leading receiver is a TE{Greg Olsen} and the all time rushing leader is a QB{Vince Young}
And that leads me to Mr. Tebow who was the highlight again for my team but my offense is pretty weak and unstructured right now. I’m scoring but if I keep scoring like this he’s going to get injured.
My defense is playing really good but defensive players and philosophies on Madden are only truly tested on All-Madden level. My defensive philosophy is aggressive blitzes from random players and going for turnovers, turnovers, turnovers. If I’m not getting sack and turnovers I’m in trouble as a defense.
The next two games are the true tests for what kind of season I might be facing.
I need to get the ball to Olsen more and need to see if Tebow can throw. Not that I’ve ever been able to play very well with left handed Quarterbacks on Madden. I think right now Dodge or McCown will end up getting the start with me using Tebow as a package QB. That’s what I usually do to get young quarterbacks playing time and pushing up their ratings so I have a good backup.
All positions are up for grabs so things will get more interesting with the rest of preseason. I still have no idea who will be starting at any position and that’s one of the things that already making this a lot of fun.
Game Stats
Passing:
Dodge, 123yds, 2 TD, 9 Comp
Tebow, 0yds, 0 TD, 0 Comp, {I attempted a few passes with him but he mainly ran the ball.}
McCown, 27yds, 0 TD, 2 Comp, 1 INT
Rushing:
Tebow, 128yds, 4 TD, 17 Att
Cooper, 59yds, 14 Att
Bundy, 46yds, 11 Att
Westbrock, 31yds, 11 Att
Dodge, 19yds, 4 Att {The only problem I’ve seen with Dodge so far is even though he is the highest rated QB I have on the Bulldawgs, he’s pretty slow and I wonder if he will work within my offense?}
McCown, 11yds, 4 Att
Griffith, 6yds, 3 Att
Rec:
Olsen, 3 Rec, 36yds, 1 TD
Denham, 2 Rec, 21yds
Bruce, 2 Rec, 37yds, 1 TD
Owens, 2 Rec, 41yds
Askew, 1 Rec, 9yds
Griffith, 1 Rec, 6yds
Blocking:
Pace, 12 Pancakes
Defense:
Christman, 7 tacks (Is this a real names? I’m keeping this guy on my team forever. Well, unless he starts to suck and gets mouthy and then outcomes the nails.)
Ogunleye, 4 tacks, 3 sacks
Pierce, 3 tacks, 2 sacks
Smith, 2 tacks, 1 INT

There are 7 teams with a 2-0 record so far competing for the All-Player Challenge{the pre-season} Someone asked me a few posts back what is the reward I mentioned for teams who win the pre-season.
Basically in my N.F.L. if you finish with the worst record in the league your team is replaced using the relocation function. I do it sort of like how Soccer leagues like the EPL do with teams going down and up leagues.
It’s how by the end of a franchise mode on a game almost all the original N.F.L. teams have been replaced. There are rules though. You can’t be replaced during a franchise if within said franchise you win the Superbowl, the All-Player Challenge, or finish the regular season without losing a game.

Remaining Pre-Season games for the Richmond Bulldawgs:
At Jets
At Cardinals


Here’s Some Cool Stuff You Should Check Out:

Another fantasy sports team on a march towards greatness.
Manchester City: The Miracle of Swindon Town #104: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrIJ2Jw8BRw&feature=colike

One of my favorite podcasts. I was listening to this podcast while writing this blog entry.
Stacey’s Pop Culture Parlour Episode 3- Man Crush: http://popcultureparlour.podbean.com/2012/04/23/episode-3-man-crush/


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