War comes to World of Warcraft

After weeks of build-up, the supplies for the war in Silithus finally arrived from the cities of Ironforge and Orgrimmar tonight on the Silver Hand server in World of Warcraft and one of the guilds that had assembled the scepter necessary to ring the gong did so, and, at long last, the Ahn’Qiraj war began.

There were giant bugs, Egyptian god look-alikes and lots and lots of lag.

It was a pain in the butt at times, but it was cool to be a part of it, since we missed the big events like this in EverQuest, which tended to be long over before Jenn and I had even started playing the game.

And now we can look forward to killing lots and lots and lots of bugs.

Sin City

As a major fan of Robert Rodriguez and a fan of Frank Miller, I think that I was expecting a bit more from Sin City. It’s hard to know exactly WHAT I wanted more of, since the film is suffused with style and violence, cheap broads with hearts of gold and mugs who never got a fair shot.

But for all the style the film oozes, its extremely stylized dialogue is sometimes hard for the film’s cast to get out and sound plausible doing so — this is particularly true of some of the lines placed in the mouths of the actresses.

Still, the film is ruthlessly true to Miller’s vision and is easily the most hard-boiled noir movie ever made. As a result, Sin City has to be strongly recommended to fans of either.

Happy birthday to John and Sarah

Twin happy birthday wishes to my buddies John Bartol and Sarah Biddle. Hope you guys each have great ones!