Want Inane Rantings? Look No Further!
Doug — Jan 1, 2010 14:02:35

Okay, I've been gone for a long while. Time to catch up.

Happy Halloween! I hope you all had a great time loitering around, bouncing from house to house, bar to bar, or hosting your own Halloween party! I hope your costumes were well thought out and brilliantly executed.

Happy Thanksgiving! I don't know about you, but my Thanksgiving was fantastic. Great meal: some of the best meat I've ever had (prime rib, because my family hates turkey), incredibly great stuffing, garlic bread, the works. I do hope you all had a Thanksgiving as good as mine, and that you all got to catch up with your families.

Getting closer. Merry Christmas, to the Christians out there! Happy Hanukkah, to my Jewish readers! Happy Kwanzaa, to all my American Black readers! And, to my fellow Athiests, Happy December 25th. I add that last part because I realize there are tons of Athiests out there who, like me, have realized that we don't celebrate Christmas for it's original meaning, the birth of the Christian savior, Jesus H. Christ (what does that H stand for?*). I know that my family celebrates it for Jesus' birthday (which was actually in June, not on December 25th, but that's a whole different story), but I really don't. I do it for the feasting, for an excuse to see my family every once in a while, to actually see some relatives I haven't seen in years, for the opportunity to spread joy to others and get them gifts, and for me to receive joy from others in present form.

Many of you will find this horrible. Many of you will find this disgusting. In fact, many of you will find this blasphemous. To you, I say that I've said worse. Far worse. I say this because this is the truth. I don't celebrate it for the sake of Jesus, I celebrate it for the sake of my happiness, and the happiness of my family as a whole. Yes, my family celebrates it for Jesus, but I sit through the bible stories for their sakes (and so that my Grandmother doesn't write me out of her will for not being Christian).

Funny story out of that, actually. I just came back from a fun trip to California, which is where (frighteningly close to literally) all my family lives. We went to 5 different Christmas parties, including our own in our hotel room. One of those was making up to be fairly uninteresting(it was at the house of a portion of family I am completely unfamiliar with. They all seemed to know me, but I literally didn't know a single one) until they did the one thing I've never seen anyone do on Christmas that just utterly blew my mind: They brought out a cake and started singing "Happy Birthday" to Jesus. No Bloody Joke. It's a good thing I can keep a reasonably straight face, because I was ready to burst out in a cacophonous roar of laughter. I'm sorry, I respect the Christian religion (no, really, I do!), but singing "Happy Birthday" to Jesus? And bringing out a fully decked out Birthday Cake, complete with Candles (no, there weren't 2014 candles on it, but that would have been awesome)? That's just a little over the top. I get that it's for the kids, to remember "Hey! This is for Jesus! Not just presents!", but still. I have had many the laugh since.

Where was I? Oh, right. December 25th. Yay! I will say, however, that my December 25th celebrations went well. I achieved some free clothing, 2 new DVDs (one of which is a classic I never bothered to buy: Good Guys Wear Black. Classic Chuck Norris), and 2 brand-spankin-new games: "Dragon Age: Origins" and "Borderlands"! I've been enjoying the crap out of both, and will hopefully find time to review them.

Speaking of reviews, I have been hard at work on the new site revamp. As I announced a few months ago, it is Ecoticity, and it will be the host of Game/Movie reviews, a newly revamped WoW Landscaping portion (which is actually already done. It turned out pretty much exactly how I wanted the AFK one to turn out.), and will host a brand new webcomic from the mind of me. This website would be live now if it weren't for the matter of the webcomic slowing me down.

I have plans to set it to be a twice-a-week comic, maybe thrice-a-week if I can actually buckle down and git-r-dun. The problem that's actually slowing me is that I am deathly afraid of missing a deadline with the comics. I did it far too much with the Landscapes (which is why they won't have a regular update day), and also far too much with the reviews. This is why I'm doing a minimum of 50 of them ahead of time, so I never fall behind. I set my deadline to March, but I have a snowball's chance in Hades of actually making that deadline. If I'm phenomenally lucky, I'll have it done by May. One thing I can say about it is that it will not be close to worth the wait. Heh. But I encourage sticking around for it. I would love to have a few readers to get me to make more.

Well, this has been my rant for the New Year 2010. I look forward to the year and hope to make progress on my projects. Thank you for reading my drivel and I hope you continue to, regardless of my controversial stupidity. This really is more of an outlet for my thoughts than anything. So, once more, I thank you for sticking around, and hope to death that you keep sticking around. Until the next review or blog post, I'm out.

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