Friday, August 20, 2010

Gamer Recipe: Pizza Toast

Okay, this one's for the real retards out there that can't even boil water or properly mix ingredients. It's not a good diet-food and it's certainly not particularly super-healthy, but kids will love it.

Gamer Recipe
Pizza Toast

YOU WILL NEED:
1) Sliced white bread




2) Sliced American cheese (I use Kraft Singles)


3) Thin-sliced pepperoni (like for pizza!)





4) Aluminum Foil, cookie sheet or other baking tray.
Sounds f**king delicious. Let's get started.



Recipe:
(Makes 6 Pizza Toasts)
Lay a sheet of aluminum foil on a clean kitchen surface. Position 6 slices of bread on the foil. Put 1 slice of American cheese on each piece of bread. Then place 5 small slices of pepperoni (or 1 if the slices are big) on top of the cheese. Set oven to BROIL and put 'em in the oven (top rack). STAY NEAR THE OVEN. Broiling is like toasting and happens very quickly. Check oven every 3 to 5 minutes to make sure your pizzas aren't burning. When the pepperoni is hot and greasy, the cheese melted, and the edges of the bread are browned, take 'em out and let cool. Delicious snack, yo.

Move over, KFC. The State Fair's got you beat on nastiness.

Remember that post I made about KFC's horrific Double Down sandwich? Well recently, I found another frightening feast called the 'Krispy Kreme Donut cheese burger with chocolate-covered bacon' and tweeted about it like the Twit-tard I am. Immediately, Jeremy Koch (co-owner of GameKrib.com) vowed to try it himself. I didn't believe him.

He did.

Monday, July 12, 2010

Fantastic Fest, new pics, and terrible dinner theater.

If all goes as planned, I'll be attending the upcoming Fantastic Fest Arcade event in September, which is an interactive indie game festival here in Austin. I'm hoping to go and represent GameKrib.com, as well as check out new indie releases and some major production titles. Should be fun!


Anyways, last night I went with my brother Johnny and his girlfriend to an odd dinner theater show at the Spaghetti Warehouse in town. Judging from the price, I thought the show would be witty, unique, quality, engaging, intelligent and/or somewhat enjoyable. Boy, was I horribly wrong.
The Capital City Mystery Players performed a cheesy and predictable version of the board game Clue (handful of raunchy characters, one of whom is murdered and the audience has to figure out who committed the crime), only this was much less enjoyable than the game ever was. The script was poor, the acting ranged from okay to mediocre to f**king horrible, costumes were lazy and almost nonexistent, and the ending was so predictable... I just wanted to hit myself in the face.
OH YEAH. Then there was the B.O.... yeah, one of the cast members desperately needed some Old Spice. Or, ya know, maybe a f**king shower. And every 5 minutes, he'd run out into the audience saying his stupid lines and standing right over me. I cannot tell you how badly a smell like that ruins a formerly delicious plate of chicken parmesan. Satan's wrath was coming out of that man's armpits. Satan's wrath.

There are photos from the dinner and tons of new shots from my latest photoshoot here on Myspace.



Thanks for readin'!

Sunday, June 20, 2010

My 8-Legged Beauties

A BIOLOGY-NERD UPDATE:

Over the past few months, I've developed a love and fascination for tarantulas and other large arachnids. It all started when I found three wild Texas Brown (Aphonopelma hentzi) tarantulas in my yard. I was immediately hooked. In fact, I now have 9 in my collection:

~Unnamed (5-inch Acanthoscurria chacoana, Female)
~Pandora (3-inch Grammostola pulchripes, Female)
~Gypsy (3-inch Brachypelma albopilosum, Female)
~Junior (2-inch Aphonopelma hentzi, ??)
~Jynx (2.5-inch Avicularia avicularia, Female)
~Unnamed (.5-inch Avicularia versicolor, ??)
~Unnamed (1-inch Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens, ??)
~Unnamed (.75-inch Brachypelma smithi, ??)
~Unnamed (2.5-inch Grammostola rosea, ??)

Here are the posts I made on the first three I caught:
Post 1, Post 2, Post 3
Two of them are missing from the collection list because the first two A. hentzis I caught both grew into Mature Males, so I decided to release them and let them go make babies. The third A. hentzi ('Junior') isn't big enough to determine gender yet, but I'll be keeping it if it's a female.


So here's an update on my full collection (Click pics to see bigger!):

After I acquired 'Junior', my third wild-caught A. hentzi, I bought two more: A female Chaco Golden Knee (G. pulchripes) I named 'Pandora', and a Honduran Curly Hair (B. albopilosum) I named 'Gypsy'. Click here too see details and more pics from the day I got them.

Pandora, G. pulchripes:


Gypsy, B. albopilosum:



I ordered my second batch of tarantulas online. A tiny 1-inch Greenbottle Blue (Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens) spiderling and an even smaller .75-inch Mexican Red Knee (Brachypelma smithi). I can't give either of them names until they're large enough to determine gender. Click here for more pics and details on those two.

C. cyaneopubescens:


B. smithi:



Next, I acquired a juvenile, 2.5-inch Chilean Rose Hair (Grammostola rosea) from a local pet store when I went to buy crickets to feed the others. Gender can't be determined until it molts (so I can find the sex organs in its shed skin), so I can't name that one yet either. NO PICS YET.



And in my latest trip to a local exotic pet store (yesterday), I spoke with their tarantula expert and took home three new babies! A rather large, 5-inch female Bolivian Redrump (Acanthoscurria chacoana), no name yet. A 2.5-inch female Pinktoe (Avicularia avicularia) I named Jynx. And the store manager threw in a freebie: A teenie-tiny .5-inch Martinique Red Tree Spider (Avicularia versicolor), gender unknown and no pics of it yet. Click here for more pics and details on the huge A. chacoana and the adorable A. avicularia, 'Jynx'.

A. chacoana


Jynx, A. avicularia




Also! Here's a video of me and my brother handling those two. He's so not scared. Right.



My little lovelies.