My home is very poorly decorated, mainly because I don't have much of an eye for decor, or a sense of how to do it, and almost never go shopping for it. Well, for a change I'm in a kind of shopping mood, for Rene Magritte!

( Paintings under cut )

I occasionally play hidden object games (HOGs). Not as often as I used to, because they become repetitive after a while. I started playing them when I went looking for new point-and-click adventure games, my favourite (but largely neglected) genre. That's when I found the Jayisgames website, which lumps them all together under their adventure tag. About 40% of the games with that tag are HOGs.

( Discussing the genre )

Now that it's 2012, I hope some of the game companies really put some Oomph into the genre and raise the bar a little. I'm bored. :)

Since I'm at home recovering from a terrible... something that my stomach was doing to me all last night, I thought I'd talk about some of the games I've tried over the last couple of months.
( Bastion )

( Treasure Adventure Game )

( VVVVVV )

( Snailiad )

( The Blackwell Deception )

( Vohaul Strikes Back )

( Detarou )

From an old issue of the Cerebus comic before it went downhill, there's a scene where two of the Marx brothers, who are politicians in the story, get cornered by a very earnest, pushy salesman who doesn't speak English very well, who wants government money for a project.

"Good afterdawn! I will be saying to every each of you... name be Scorz of Scorz, Scorz and Sons. I am here for talking at you Sewage, Sewage, Sewage!"

"Well, you've come to the right place."

"All over the states of the coming together Feldwar is nothing but Sewage, Sewage, Sewage..."

"Who is dissa guy?"
"I don't know, but so far he hasn't said anything I've disagreed with..."

"Please to I am talking at famous the Lord Palnu and famous the also Duke, Duke, Duke of Leonardi...no? You be much now interested for 'Away the sewage', no?"

"Whadda should I say?"
"I don't know, but I'd stay away from running water if I were you."

"We sincere-talk, now! Say 'Sewage for keeps'... yes? no? This is both... both say 'Scorz Sewage away is only way! Yes? Yes??"

"Whadda we do?"
"I'm tempted to take him up on his offer just to find out what he's talking about..."

(lunging forward) "Yes! Yes! Yes! Percent smell of fifty for really and also true!"

"'Ey!"

"Guaranteed smell!"

"On the other hand, you can be too careful about these things..."

"Make for you offer 'Too easy to install smell' - amazing is the smell!"

"We take-a you word-a for it..."
"You don't suppose he carries a sample case, do you?"

Current Mood: silly

Someone on DeviantArt is in the process of adapting The Call of Cthulhu into a Dr. Seuss styled-work.

Current Mood: amused

Or not yet, but it's in the works.

Despite the tragic events in Norway and with Amy Winehouse... sometimes it's the smaller things, closer to home, that hit more strongly, simply due to being more familiar.

So long, Elwy.

Current Mood: pensive

America's Wall

Sur le Quai

Snailiad

King Uszniewicz & the Uszniewicztones

Juan de los Muertos

Current Mood: chipper

As time goes by, I get things in my kitchen that I probably shouldn't have bought - but am loathe to throw out. Like spices... boy do I have a lot of spices, and yet I am terribly shy about figuring out how to use them. Anyway, I'm looking for ideas on what to use the following ingredients in, not at the same time:

1. Almond oil (in stir-fry? which I don't do often)
2. Almond paste
3. Dutch satay paste (kind of peanut-butterish, but more dense - someone once told me to mix it into coconut milk and stew it with meat and vegetables)
4. Rice flour (middle-eastern, non-glutinous)
5. Chick pea flour (tried pakoras already - cooking fail)
6. Frozen raspberries (anything except jam, which I have too much of at the moment. In theory, I could make it into pancake syrup, and freeze it, since I use up syrup rather slowly)

Suggestions welcome! :-)

What can I say, sometimes a stupid joke occurs to you and you simply can't get it out of your head. :)

Current Mood: silly