Jay McGavren’s Journal

(and others) may be interested to know that Mel Brooks is working on a SpaceBalls sequel.

> As far as a release date, Brooks says, ‘Best case scenario:
> a week before the new Star Wars opens. Worst Case Scenario:
> a year after the new star wars opens.’”

He’s a George Lucas fan (not just Star Wars, but American Graffiti and others), so I went to Wal-Mart to pick up THX 1138. (I haven’t seen it yet, so I hope it’s good.)

The lady at the checkout (who was obviously not American-born), looked at the cover, which features a bald-shaven head with a barcode tag in the ear. She looked at me and asked, quite seriously, “Is a movie for your head?”

I guess there are more futurists out there than I thought.

If you ever donate to an election campaign fund, do so anonymously if you can. I’ve been getting e-mail, snail mail, and phone calls from the Democratic Party ever since May. >:( Of course, the Republicans seem even worse - I’ve gotten junk mail from them addressed to “resident”.

Out of boredom, I Googled for my own name today. I wanted to see what dark corners of the Net my reputation had spread to. (I was surprised at just how far it had gone.)

Anyway, here’s an amusing post from a Neo-Geo mailing list in response to a post from :

>>I still think the best game mag to come out in recent times was Game On!
>>USA, which some of our MLers, namely Shidoshi and Greg Kasavin, were a
>>part of.
>
>Greg was part of the staff? Wow, guess I either noticed and just don't
>remember, or it never occoured to me.

I double-checked...it's definitely him! This is for Vol. 1, number 7,
BTW.

>
>Little bit of trivia: I wrote for more issues than many people think. After
>being hired over at GameFan, I switched over to using the name J.J. Dagger
>to avoid GF possibly finding out that I was writing for two magazines.

Really? I need to go back and see if I still have any old issues that
you might be in!

>As
>well, contributor Jay McGavren, who mostly helped out in the codes section,
>was one of the guys I used to make my old fanzine with.

Really? Cool! I remember him back when he was on AOL using the name
"TheSpook1". He was MAJORLY into the Game Genie, and started a club.
Those were the good ol' days...

For those who have always wanted to outfit their home with creepy furniture:

Gravity Lamp

I bought Arovane’s Lilies off the iTunes Music Store last week (and then downloaded MP3s right after so I could listen in my car). Apple is really doing a good job of signing smaller labels - Arovane’s publisher is based in Germany. Maybe someday I’ll even get more of my music from the Music Store than I do from SoulSeek.

I’ve had “Cry Osaka Cry” looping through my head all day - I’m hooked pretty bad. Fortunately, Arovane’s music tends to stand up to repeated playing.

Now that they have articles with titles like 3D Chocolate Printer Made from Legos, I’ve seen it all.

Diana, Lenny and I are watching her folks’s house over the weekend… We meant to bring a Dreamcast for entertainment but forgot it, so when we were at the mall I picked up one of those Jakks Pacific plug and play controllers with games embedded in it. (We chose the one with 5 Namco arcade games over the Atari 2600 paddle with 17 games in it.) Not too bad for 20 bucks, though I’m a little disappointed that it runs off batteries (4 AAAs) and has no 2-player options.

Len and Connie (Diana’s dad and stepmom) have 3 dogs who are for the most part quite lovable. The dachsund is a royal pain in the ass, however. Right now she’s running all over the house barking, and it’s a matter of time before she wakes up Lenny (who has been sleeping for much of the day thanks to his cough). I want to punt that dog into next Tuesday…