Thursday, February 22, 2007

Speaking of Bananas...

I used to play the Hell out of some Donkey Kong back in the day. All the way from the original back in '85, all the way through to the bad ass DK 64 in the '99...



The other week I picked up Diddy Kong Racing for the Nintendo DS.



No where near as good as the DS version of Mario Kart. With it, you can race people from around the world on the Internet. This past weekend I watched the end of the Daytona 500. After having no crashes for like the first 3/4ths of the race all Hell broke loose and people started spinning out right and left.



I feel like an idiot saying it. But, that was kinda cool.

Bananas

The local theater that I saw The Wizard was disgusting. There was crap all over the floor. Well, it was probably candy and popcorn. But it smelled like crap.



My dream theater would probably be nothing like this Dream Theater. But I sure as Hell know it wouldn't have a sticky floor. It'd have a big ass screen. Bumping sound system. And be clean.



Growing up there was this guy that lived down the street from my family. We called him Mr.Clean. He hosed his driveway off daily. If eveyone else had drives covered in snow and ice, his would be bare down to the blacktop.



Britney went bare to the top as well. In case you live under a rock, last weekend she shaved her head. It is my hypothesis she went nutso after losing a baby last week. About 3 weeks ago the tabloids were wondering if she was preggers. My theory, she lost the baby and went AWOL. But I'm not a scientist.



But Bill Nye is. My father went to Cornell with him. I saw the yearbook pictures. Believe it or not Bill Nye looked kind of nerdy back then.



When I was younger I used to always confuse Goofy and Pluto. I don't know why. Maybe I was stupid back then...



I used to watch Kids Incorporated on the Disney channel before school. It starred Stacey, AKA Stacey "Fergie" Ferguson.



Why am I telling you all of this. This shit is bananas.



B, A, N, A, N, A, S.

1983.

I had a cabbage patch kids doll. Its name was Milton. I had another too, its name was Tina.


I didn't have a Coleco Vision. My neighbor did, but as soon as he got his Nintendo we never played it.





Super Mario Bros. 3 was the bomb. John Clarkson, the kid who lived across the street from me got it before I did. He got it for "first communion."



The movie "The Wizard" was, for the most part an advertisment for the video game Super Mario Bros. 3.



Somehow these kids, who were seeing Super Mario 3 for the first time, knew all about the whistle warp and other suprises (Get the star! The star!)