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Just a nerd moment I guess.

Today has been a mixed bag. It started off swell in the morning, until I lost my car keys. I had back up keys and they barely work due to the folks at the honda dealership shaving them a little too block compared to my original car keys which are smooth and doesn't make me want to harm a living soul.

I digress.

Sometimes I find myself listening in on other's conversations in school. While sitting in Study hall these kids were talking about three super powers they'd have. Since they took a quiz on their iphones about which hero they'd be.

The one kid, Chris said he'd have Wolverine as one power, my brain had a fart. I mean, he must have gotten the whole idea of the power wrong, right?

Unless that's what he's into, that's fine too.

Being the guy I am I asked him if he meant the comic book hero, who has more than one power or did he literally want to be the animal. He corrected himself with saying that he meant the claws, which I will admit was a good call. Then the teacher asked if he wanted the Adamantium claws or the bone claws. Most of the kids in the room agreed with her. I asked where she knows that from, they all said the Big Bang Theory. The kid next to me pointed to his gauges in his earlobe and said that would be his powers, his gauges were the Punisher Skull.

I wanted to correct him that the Punisher didn't have powers. Just lots of guns and ammo, but I kept my mouth shut. The talk about Wolverine continued and I added a few things in. To help clear things up, then the kid with the Punisher gauges pointed to me and said "Kev knows his shit man." That shit being comics. This was very true. Sometimes I pride myself in being a nerd, it does pay off some times. But I do become unaware of how much I do know of comics, video games movies, books, ect. until somebody points it out to me is only when I notice.

This nostalgic bastard.

Lately I've been growing bored of the newest of new in the gaming world. Sure, I love playing whatever games I have for the current generation of consoles but to be honest, nothing beats what I had as a kid. Today, I had the urge again. To lift up my bed, to move some junk around and dig out the things that made my childhood so full of win.

As a wee lad I played with my brother's Nes and Snes. Though, I was around four and hadn't the slightest clue how to play his games I still gained some sort of insight of how to hold the controller, how to jump, shoot and so on with the help of my brothers and sister. Then it happened, Christmas of '98. My christmas this year was something that would set me up for being the nerd I am today. My presents consisted of toys (of course) and the one game I will love with all my fleshy heart-

The first time I played this I remember not having any idea on how to get out of the house, so I got help from my sister's friend. After that I sort of eased my way into the game and I figured it all out on my own. The amount of time I put into this game will probably best that of any other game I've played in the later years. Beating the Elite Four, my rival then getting Mewtwo was one of the best damn things of my childhood, seeing the cool pokemon and the intense battles I had in the game were highlights of my childhood.

My brother had gotten the N64 that same Christmas and he was on it just about every day of the week with his friends. I would hang out with them, curse with them and play Golden eye, Smash Bros, Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, Super Mario 64, ect. with my brother and his friends. The next year I would receive a blue N64 (like the first picture above) with two controllers, Pokemon stadium, Kirby and Rampage. All of which would rule over my youth and it still does much so into my teenage years. Late last year, I would pull my old Nintendo 64 out from the basement with the games my brother had and his controllers. I would clean it up and play it along side my friends. When I found it I greeted it like an old friend, I was filled with happiness and nostalgia. Not to mention I was smiling like a complete and utter dork too, but it didn't matter.

Soon, I found me and my friends playing with our old game boy colors and playing Pokemon Red then Pokemon Gold and Silver. We would have a night dedicated to playing our Nintendo 64, but as much as we wished it wouldn't end we had to pack up and go home.

As for my brother's Snes and Nes, they're lost to the ages, if he had them still, I'd dust them off and fix them up as best as I could if there were any wrong with them. I love the Nintendo 64 and my GameCube and my Game boy color, but I sadly have to put them away for now, since I have little room to put them. And yet they'll always have room in my heart.

I came up with this comic back during the BP oil spill, but it’s as relevant now as ever; the spill is still causing damage, but few people care now that it’s ceased to threaten anything big and cute in an immediately visible fashion.

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ANIMALS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE:

Dumbo or “flapjack” Octopuses Ceratoid Anglerfish Sea Cucumber and parasitic Pearlfish Bobbit Worm Pistol Shrimp Salps forming a Blastozooid Planktonic Crab Larva, Copepod and Foraminiferan Boxing Crab with its symbiotic Anemones Glaucus atlanticus or “sea lizard” preying on hydrozoan Red Snapper with Cymothoa Exigua or “tongue biter” Flounder Corpses Media Shill Bottle-nosed asshole

Admired author- Douglas Adams

As far as me being a writer I do have plenty of authors to look up to. Douglas Adams, is one of them. Famous for writing the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series, which was also made into a movie and television show. While writing the screenplay for the film adaptation, he had died of a heart attack and well, never got to see his work appear on the screen. Adams being the atheist that he was had some pretty interesting views and ways to describe them. As an agnostic, I can agree with a few of his views on life even if he was a self proclaimed "Radical Atheist".

Religion doesn't have much to do with what else I have to admire about him. His humor was something that made me giggle at how simple it seemed. Like in Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Author Dent had laid out before his house in hopes to prevent his house from being bulldozed over by a city construction crew, the boss of the crew was sort of a funny character. The manager was a funny looking man, but that wasn't just the joke about him, the joke was that he was a decedent from Genghis Khan and he could hear his ancestors murder villagers inside of his brain. The whole character wasn't important to the story and short lived but he also was just funny and unique since I can't recall any other character being tormented by images of pillaging of villages from his ancestor. His writing showed that you can be different with your characters and how you can add humor at any point you can think of.

There's also how I can break the impossible with any of my stories and characters. Like how Marvin the robot was always depressed. You usually never can imagine robots as clinically depressed but Adams made this character that sort made science fiction turn a bit funny.

Douglas's legacy lived on with his famous book series being continued by Eion Colfer, famous for the Artemis Fowl series. I would love to continue writing about him and his influence on me, but I'm tired and I fear I won't wake up on time.

"I spent my lifetime crossing the oceans, with my cloak up and the scarf wrapping around my neck. A reminder of my journey to the last stop. A never ending closure close at hand. Just a few more miles on foot to be home again."