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Jul. 13th, 2003 12:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
clayhornikThe sports bar I griped about a couple of weeks ago was the scene of violence recently. Gosh, violence at a sports bar. What are the odds?
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I'm still not writing anything other than this LJ. Had some crap in my life I'm still dealing with.
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I picked up a great Guy Davis double bill this weekend: Sandman Mystery Theatre: The Tarantula and Honour Among Punks, the Baker Street compilation I mentioned a while back.
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Checking out an old sampler DVD I picked up a while back, I was delighted to find a short film by one of my favourite artists: Tony Millionaire. His Sock Monkey series is one of my main reasons for going into comic book stores theses days.
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It's amazing the crap you can dig up when you start looking... I recently discovered a computer game that came for free when I bought the Disney Villians game: Nightmare Ned. Messed up does not begin to describe this game. You're a kid and you've fallen asleep while the parents are away. The house becomes lonely and spooky and Ned allows his fears to inspire his dreams, nightmare actually, real kids style nightmares of School, The Doctors Office, The Attic and Basement, The Things That Lurk in the Plumbing, and a Graveyard.The Attic has some lovely Victorian clip art for wall paper, and feature one of the weirdest things in the game: Edie McClurg (school secretary from Ferris Bueller's Day Off "they think he's a righteous dude", also Herb Tarlick's wife) as the voice of a dragon's head mounted on a wall reciting urban myths Doctor Seuss style. Stories like "the hook", "spider egg infection", and "the poodle in the microwave." This is only mildly disturbing.
The most disturbing portion of the game comes as you have to leap from partially filled bathtub to partially filled bathtub as rats sing a tango while dropping live electrical appliances on you. Yes, water, bathtubs, and appliances. Think "Alvin" on a killing spree.
The graveyard segment is probably my favourite, as Ned has to get a nightlight for the little zombie girls crypt. Very Lenore. (Spookyland is still down, btw.)
There's a platform leaping puzzle in the School segment that's accompanied by a clever little song reminiscent of The Darkest of Hillside Thickets's song "Mathsong".
Apparently the game was based on a tv show. Sigh. And I missed it.
Nightmare Ned is probably out of print, but should be easily enough located in budget bins or on half.com. Check it out.
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I'm still not writing anything other than this LJ. Had some crap in my life I'm still dealing with.
--
I picked up a great Guy Davis double bill this weekend: Sandman Mystery Theatre: The Tarantula and Honour Among Punks, the Baker Street compilation I mentioned a while back.
--
Checking out an old sampler DVD I picked up a while back, I was delighted to find a short film by one of my favourite artists: Tony Millionaire. His Sock Monkey series is one of my main reasons for going into comic book stores theses days.
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It's amazing the crap you can dig up when you start looking... I recently discovered a computer game that came for free when I bought the Disney Villians game: Nightmare Ned. Messed up does not begin to describe this game. You're a kid and you've fallen asleep while the parents are away. The house becomes lonely and spooky and Ned allows his fears to inspire his dreams, nightmare actually, real kids style nightmares of School, The Doctors Office, The Attic and Basement, The Things That Lurk in the Plumbing, and a Graveyard.The Attic has some lovely Victorian clip art for wall paper, and feature one of the weirdest things in the game: Edie McClurg (school secretary from Ferris Bueller's Day Off "they think he's a righteous dude", also Herb Tarlick's wife) as the voice of a dragon's head mounted on a wall reciting urban myths Doctor Seuss style. Stories like "the hook", "spider egg infection", and "the poodle in the microwave." This is only mildly disturbing.
The most disturbing portion of the game comes as you have to leap from partially filled bathtub to partially filled bathtub as rats sing a tango while dropping live electrical appliances on you. Yes, water, bathtubs, and appliances. Think "Alvin" on a killing spree.
The graveyard segment is probably my favourite, as Ned has to get a nightlight for the little zombie girls crypt. Very Lenore. (Spookyland is still down, btw.)
There's a platform leaping puzzle in the School segment that's accompanied by a clever little song reminiscent of The Darkest of Hillside Thickets's song "Mathsong".
Apparently the game was based on a tv show. Sigh. And I missed it.
Nightmare Ned is probably out of print, but should be easily enough located in budget bins or on half.com. Check it out.
