I’m sure that anyone who has heard of “Still Alive” or “Portal” or many others, has heard the name Jonathan Coulton. Wikipedia has this information on him:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Coulton
I have also come across his website:
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/store/downloads
This is the page where you can listen to and buy many of his songs.
I find many of them to be easy to listen to, yet also quite strange and even disturbing in the lyrics department. But honestly, ya gotta love it!
This article seems strangely appropriate for the time of year — don’t ask me why — short attention span and all.
Being a “western” country, we’re used to, in conventional culture, hearing about our local church going to outreach in other countries, and working to spread the word through local reach-outs, events, etc. It is an attempt at spreading the word without smacking you over the head with The Good Book too hard. I can very easily see the same thing happening in Islam and Judaism. But you don’t hear about Buddhists much.
It turns out that at least monks are trying such kinds of outreach. Well, perhaps not the same. This sounds like something out of Sister Act.
From the article:
After their first session on the stage, which lasts about 20 minutes, they sit down with the audience for a drink and a chat. One of the monks gets a bag of balloons out of his pocket and starts sculpting balloon flowers for some of the older ladies sitting around the room.
Read more: BBC News (UK): Japan’s monks take Buddhism to bars
I used to pride myself on my ability to draw, I still do. But after I found myself standing, in-game, on a rather anonymous hill in The Barrens on the continent of Kalimdor; stareing at this rather unusual erection dedicated to a fallen avatar. It was the Spirit Healer (with wings of course) that attracted my attention at first, but after spending time around it and reading the initials inscribed in it “MK”, and the name given to the Spirit Healer “Koiter”, I became quite curious.
I began to look into information involving this word Koiter and World of Warcraft.
It was then when I found this:
http://www.sonsofthestorm.com/memorial_twincruiser.html
I read the entire thing and began crying. Being an Illustrator it hit rather close to home for me.
Burnout looming. Brain too weak to write… article quote here!
The game is called Zoid and it was coded by Futurama co-creator, and previously ardent arcade gamer, David X. Cohen. You probably can’t recall the game because it never made it to mass market. […] Cohen’s game was rejected by the software company Broderbund, which was one of the hottest names for computer games at that time. Don’t you think the company is smacking itself in the collective head right now for missing this opportunity? They could have re-released Zoid under the name Zoid, Created by Futurama’s David X. Cohen and made a small mint. Dr. Zoidberg could have even made a cameo appearance in the game.
::attaches brain slug to head::
Read TV Squad: The truth on how Futurama’s Zoidberg got his name
Subscribe to