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It looks precisely as though someone has shoved a very large grapefruit where my kneecap used to be. It feels as though this grapefruit, as opposed to the more common grocery store type, is filled with very angry bees. Or, more succinctly, my knee is grossly swollen and quite painful. Why? I don’t know. There wasn’t a soft pop followed by intense pain or even a “hey, THAT’S gonna hurt tomorrow” moment. Nope, I went to bed a few nights ago with the knee feeling a little stiff and when I woke up… Well walking had become quite a bit more uncomfortable than it used to be. A trip to the Doctor revealed two things: A) the screw in my knee from a previous surgery was still there and b) I needed to see an orthopedic surgeon. The high point of the visit to the Doctors office was seeing every doctor in the building. Not for diagnostic help, they all stopped by just to gander at the apparently amazing amount of swelling. All this to explain why I haven’t posted in a few days after I promised a good friend I would post. Good friend, I apologize deeply.

I know, I know the airport enabled iBook shoud’ve got me through but I’d be tapping out an entry and Safari would unexpectedly quit. I think I have some bad ram in the thing or something. I didn’t want to retype the stuff I lost so no posts. Tonight I finally made it downstairs to the rock solid NEEEEVVVVVEEEEERRRRR crashes G4 with the OWC upgrade and now posting can resume. First some links:

A very cool Bob Dylan flash thingy. This is excellent.

Mildly Amusing:

Microsith.com

Game Pick: Bushgame
A few warnings: Don’t play this at work and don’t expect a really great game. It’s mostly propaganda. But there are a ton of eighties references thrown in (you start out as Hulk Hogan, Mr. T and He-Man) and Karl Rove turning into a robeast is funny. Hey, I’m in a bush basing mood.

Video Pick: Bush in Thirty Seconds
A bunch of folks made anti Pres-Bush ads, some good, some not so great. As noted earlier I’m feeling like doing a little anti-President Bush stuff.

Well that’s all the links I’ve got today you can stop reading now. Oh, if you’re wondering why I seem so anti Pres suddenly, I’m wondering too. What puzzles me even more is why I’m still not pro Kerry. Man that guy must suck. Erp, too much politics.

Now, for no particular reason, I’m going to list movie villians that actually scared me. Not entertained me, not amused me, nope villians that actually terrified me. All of these are from my childhood (well one is from my late teens) cause after you get to be twenty or so movies just aren’t scary (one exception: BioDome, but I meant purposely scary):

Scariest Villian ever: Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. When I was a young lad this movie would come on TV once a year or so. My parents would get all excited telling me that we were all going to watch “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” on TV. I guess they’d say that at dinner to get me amped up for the showing but for the rest of the evening I would walk around dreading watching that movie and the nightmares that followed. I remember wondering just why they were making me watch it. I can hardly wait to make my kid watch the movie.

Shark from Jaws. I never saw Jaws as a kid. I picked up the story from all the hype. Giant shark eats plenty of people. This movie caused me no end of fear. I would lay bed in abject horror that I would be eaten by a shark at any moment. At the time I lived in Nebraska and slept on the second floor of an apartment building. Which meant I lived in a place where a shark attack was impossible. Still, my seven year old brain thought “Walking Shark” Hey, a walking shark is surely a moronic fear but my fears were obviously shared by others, why else would someone make the hyper realistic JabberJaw?

Rosemary’s Baby: I did see this movie, I don’t know when. But my thougths were along the following lines: That baby was born in the past, it’s now sometime later and that baby has grown up, There is every chance that that baby is going to kill me, Chris Seibold.

The child catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Yeah I’ve already listed him, but that fiend could SMELL kids. How freakin scary is that?

Finally: The evil monkey from Monkeyshines. C’mon little monkey, you’re supposed to be helpful not murderous.

CKS/BL Tridiot rating: I don’t know, can’t concentrate, reliving childhood fears…wait, I the commodore 64 has it: OOMPA LOOMPAS (scary as the gates of hell)