During lunch conversation yesterday I told CLAW about an interesting situation that occurred a few days back while Lex and I were tearing the shit out of the Locust horde in the interest of preparation for GOW2.

Somewhere between popping heads and blender-busting boomers we got to talking about Duke Nukem 3D. For a few days I had been, annoyingly, saying “Damn! I’m lookin’ goooooood” in my best (terrible) Duke voice and I think I was saying it every time I blew the face off of some poor slob in aviator goggles – which was a lot. A lot.

So I wanted to show her the first few levels of the good ol’ DN3D. A history lesson in ass kickery, if you will; an example of the refinement of a genre we both enjoy. Also, a suprisingly candid view into my very much younger self.

The game holds up. It’s not UT3 or anything, but it holds. So I’m showing Lex the strippers, showing Lex the toilet secret, showing Lex the dead Doom Marine. She’s totally into this. Almost every turn brought a “Sweet!“, “Dude!” or “This is, like, a 13yr old’s dream!”

Somewhere in there she says, “This is so awesome! Why didn’t they make a sequel to this?”
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One of my favorite films when I was an impressionable young squirt was Bloodsport. Cyborg and Universal Soldier (Dolph Lundgren!) were not far behind. A few years into puberty and I realized that Jean-Claude Van Damme couldn’t act to save his own life and  movies like Timecop and The Film That Shall Not Be Spoken Of only cemented this idea.

I can’t help but think that JCVD wil rock face, however. The trailer, at least, rocks mine. Give it a look, it may rock yours as well.

Also, did you know they are making a Universal Soldier III? I didn’t even know there was a Universal Soldier II…

Metal From Finland posted this pic on Thursday. I have, literally, just been sitting here staring at it until right now, just this second. Awa, I feel, is much improved. Check out Amen‘s mouth! OMFG!

The new costumes are, apparently, for Lordi‘s new album Deadache.

I am Lordi’s bitch.

I just don’t know if there is anything I can say to this. It is a lamp. A lamp made our of clear LEGO blocks.

Have I died? Am I dead right now and this is where you go if you’ve recently been a very good person who just happened to walk into a train?

Thank you, RED5. Thank you.

As though plushy microbes and Albert Einstein action figures weren’t enough, The Particle Zoo has gone and made something else to totally entangle my attentions.

At around a tenner for each particle, it may be a while before you get them all – but you know you will need to get them all. You know that, right?