Book post

Hello!!!

Sorry about last week, I didn't had an inch of inspiration. This week I am still a little blocked, but at least I have a topic: BOOKS!

My parents read in bed before sleeping every single night so I acquired that same routine. I’m a slow reader but I think I have read quite a lot. I like novels, am not fond of real stuff, like self-help or history (this one I’m a little ashamed of). In the fictional side I like almost everything.

In the mystery/murder/detective kind I have a blur in my head, sometimes I see my book shelf and I don’t know if I have read one of those, once I was finishing one of these books and 5 pages left to the end I realize that I knew the ending, I cursed my self because of my bad memory and for all the time I have wasted, like I told before am a slow reader. Since then I read the summary of the book like a thousand times to be sure and I try to separate the ones I'm sure I haven't read from the ones I have, the last one I read was The Tunnel, I think, LOL. The only mystery/murder/detective novels that I can surely distinct are the Agatha Christie ones, Murder in Mesopotamia and And Then There Were None (Ten Little Indians) are my favorites.

Then the classics, in this category I am a total chick, I love Little Women, Gone with the wind and Sense and Sensibility, and novel that I loooove that is girly but not a classic is Memoirs of a Geisha, great novel, I didn’t watch the movie, and I think I never will.

Horror!! Stephen King and Anne Rice. Stephen King we all know, many of his books have movies like Carrie, The Green Mile, Pet Sematary, Misery, The Shining, Cujo, Dreamcatcher (worst book and movie EVER!!!) and many many others, but these I have read. Anne Rice I think the only famous movie is Interview with the Vampire, I have read Merrick and Exit to Eden, this last book has explicit S&M moments, and some friends borrow it and they couldn’t read it, they skipped those moments that lasted pages and pages LOL, so a 300 page book became like a 100 page book for them.

Tolkien, Lewis, Rowling…

Fantasy, adventure, honor, friendship and a lot of books. Well I have to admit I haven’t finished the Narnia series. I prefer The Hobbit than the LOTR series, and the Goblet of Fire is my favorite HP book and I think that’s why it’s the movie I like the less (well I haven’t seen the last one yet).

Now I’m reading The Hunger Games, it was a gift (thanks again to you know who you are ;-)) and I really like it, I hope that the whole three books are as good as the few chapters I have read.

Have a great week!!!

A Bear post

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I think we can get another round of webcomics. So I have become addicted to a webcomic called Bear Nuts by Alison Acton, It’s about a Discount Zoo with very dysfunctional animals, the main characters are the bears, these have their personalities shown with a picture on their tummies like the Care Bears but a little bit creepier. 

The boss is Prozac, he is the one on my profile pictures in FB and Google, and he has a pill as tummy symbol. Prozac is always maintaining the peace in the bear pit. Next in line is Death with a scull as symbol, Death is a very cool calm guy with some electrifying powers.

The trouble makers are Evil and Lech, Evil with a satanic star picture is the worst of all, always doing the cruelest pranks that most of the time gets out of hand. Lech is the horny bear and his symbol is a panty. He is no stranger to pranks and lately has team up with Evil, not a good combination for the sake of the rest of the zoo animals.

The ones who get most screw over are Gay and Nerd. Gay is just fabulous, he’s caring but not a fool, I think he has a rhinoceros as symbol. Nerd can’t get a break, poor guy. He only wants to do his starship models and dress like Captain Kirk, but always is someone screwing him. His picture is a hotdog, I think I read is because he is a wiener…

At last we have Tanked, Gimp, Crack and Vanity. Tanked is one of my favorites he is always drunk, he is one of the most caring and sweet when he isn’t puking, you can guess that his symbol is a jar of beer. Tank loves watching WWE. Gimp is out resident S&M guy, he is very quiet and his picture is handcuffs. Crack is just a very paranoid bear, he is afraid of everything, they all have tried to help him, but there is no way, his symbol is a needle (medical no the one we use to stitch). And our last character is Vanity he actually is a panda bear and he is a star (the star is also his symbol), all the humans loooove him, so his self-esteem is very high.

Some of the secondary animals are the monkeys, elephants, giraffes and the polar bears. The polar bears are the bullies of the zoo and the monkeys are the well deserved escape goats. Monkeys can be mean.

I think at last my obsession with webcomics is paying off. At last I have an idea for a webcomic, I have only written a couple of strips and now my next step is to learn how to draw and I am going to do something about that, for sure.

Have a great week!!!

Let’s PLAY!!!

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I don’t call my self a gamer but I do like to play video games, mobile games, board games… well I think almost any kind of games. Lately I have been playing some Xbox and I think is next to my beloved Wii, sorry for the Play Station fans, I think for most people all comes down to which game do you like more God of War (PS3) or Halo (Xbox 360), tons of games are for both consoles but these two are exclusive, yes, there are a lot of games that are exclusive for each console, but I think that God of War and Halo are the most famous ones, but at the end of the day I am a Mario kind of gal so that’s why Wii is my number one console.

So I haven’t played God of War but I have played other PS3 games and looking the games list of each console I think that Xbox has more variety of the three, PS3 doesn’t have enough fun dumb games and Wii have too much fun dumb games, so I will enjoy all the time I have with my friend’s Xbox, I have already finished Portal (one) and Bastion (mini game), now I’m playing Halo (one). Let me tell you Bastion is GREAT is those games you have to buy online, is not very long but is very fun to play, I think is a different kind of game and well accomplished. Portal gave me the creeps, is not cool when a robot ask where are you in a creepy voice and tries to kill you, besides that is a very very cool game, It makes you think in a different way, problem solving way and I like that very much, I love those puzzle games almost as much as the mindless stupid but really fun games LOL. And finally Halo, well who doesn’t like to shoot things, I like shooting aliens more than shooting people, but don’t get me wrong the next game I will be playing is Medal of Honor or something like that.

I’m going to give some credit to PS3, I have to say that Little Big Planet is one of the most creative games I have ever played, the best way to play it is multi player mode and it is a blast, sooo much fun. Wii… what can I say the Mario Bros franchise and Zelda, and every day more and more shooter games are been released for Wii, so for me Nintendo rule the most.

Mobile-wise now I’m playing Block Puzzle, Greedy Spider, World of Goo (the first time I player it was on my fabulous Wii) and the game I could not live without: Fruit Ninja (This game you can play it with the Xbox Kinect using your arms as swords, is very tiresome).

Have a great week!!!

Some new stuff you may like

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2012 is here, I hope everything goes according to yours new year plans and that the world doesn’t end, there are a couple of things I want to do before I die actually.

This last week I started watching a tv series called Misfits, is British so for me is quite hard to understand, my ears are custom to American english, but you know if you get the context and what is happening you don’t need to understand every word they are saying, I think. Misfits is in its third season and is very cool. Is about some guys that have to do community service for some criminal stuff they did, and a very strange storm came and they all got a super power, and the super power is linked to something they want or miss. They aren’t the only ones who got powers, there are a lot of people affected by the storm but most of the powers they got are harmless. There are like 7 episodes per season so you can get up to date very fast, well am only finishing the first season but I highly recommend you to give it a try.

So in the spirit of new things here are some new series I like: Homeland, Pan Am, The Walking Dead (well not that new), Ringer, Revenge, American Horror Story, Terra Nova (maybe is cancelled) and The Killing.

Homeland, is about the CIA branch trying to stop terrorists, and the main character (an agent) is certain that that the newly US hero is a terrorist. Pan Am is about the pilots and flight attendants in the 60’s, maybe it sounds boring but there is a back story about the cold war that makes this series watchable. The Walking Dead… well zombies, what else? Ringer, the main character sees a murder and is the main witness so she is in protected custody but she knows that she isn’t save so she escapes from the police and the murderer, and goes to her twin sister for help, the sister kills herself and she takes her place, but it seems that her sister was also involve in something bad. Revenge is a bout this girl who wants to, turum tum tum, revenge her father who was accused of founding terrorism, so she takes a new identity and gets into this social circle of betrayal and starts destroying peoples lives from the inside, but some things don’t go that well. American Horror Story, if you like creepy things this series you will like. Terra Nova, Dinosaurs!!!!! Well maybe this series will be cancelled, so if I where you I would wait if it gets renewed. The Killing, a murder, many suspects and politicians involved, a very refreshing police series. 

In the lighter side there aren’t many new comedies that worth it, I started to watch New Girl and it got future, and Up All Night for those fans of Christina Applegate. There are a few starting this month like Are you there Chelsea? With Donna of That ‘70s Show. So in this subject I recommend you to get up to speed with the good old comedy series.

Have a great start this year!!!!!