I'm ready. Make me whole.

Oh, if I played videogames and I wasn't scared of survival horror, I would totally play Dead Space.  I don't usually fall victim to ad campaigns, but seriously? 

"Set in the distant future, Dead Space revolves around Isaac Clarke, a space engineer who works for the Concordance Extraction Corporation (C.E.C), a company that operates giant mining ships throughout the galaxy. His company receives a distress call from the USG Ishimura, a “Planet Cracker” class ship that destroys planets in order to extract valuable ore. Assuming that a mechanical failure is the only problem, Isaac and two other C.E.C employees set out to rendezvous with the Ishimura. However, they discover that the ship has been overrun by Necromorphs, a hostile alien race dependent upon necrotic flesh. Separated from his party, Isaac must survive the Necromorph infestation and battle his way to safety through the Ishimura's various environments."

I spent like an hour researching the backstory yesterday.  There's all this stuff about the Necromorphs coming out of "markers", which had previously been used to start a new religion, Unitology, that "taught the truth about human existence".  The new marker that unleashes all the Necromorphs is thought by the Unitologists to be the "next step in human evolution, a new life beyond death".  And well, it is that, because the Necromorphs kill people and infest their bodies, mutating the flesh into something monstrous and animate - basically an alternate explanation for zombies, except here the zombies look like human-Xenomorph hybrids.

It's like 2001 meets Alien.  How beautiful. 

if you see johnny football hero in the hall, tell him he played a great game!

I know no one cares, but ESPN in-game commentators are nauseatingly in love with the Texas QB, Colt McCoy.

I mean, it's actually kind of frightening to listen to them.  They don't even call him McCoy (like they do all other players, by surname) - they call him Colt (his real name is Daniel.  But apparently Daniel was boring).  They spend like 80% of the game talking about this guy, and how comfortable and confident he is, and how smart he is, and how there is no one who could possibly contend with him for the Heisman Trophy.  This has been going on for 4 years now.  Like, uh.  He's not even vaguely hot even for a football player, but then again, I'm not a guy.  Draw own conclusions?

I root for Texas against Oklahoma, yes, but watching them against anybody else just gets grating/creepy.  Texas will be punting and the commentators will still be waxing poetic over how great Colt McCoy is.  And as much as I resent Missouri for flaunting their beating us up and being cocky little geeks-on-the-homecoming-court, I pity any Missouri fans listening to this broadcast.  Texas is treated like such a golden child. 

Not that, of course, Missouri isn't playing awfully, and not that, of course, Texas isn't currently #1 in the country.  But Texas always starts off the season as the "underdog" (not that they know the meaning of underdog), beats some high-ranking team, rockets to the top, and then crumbles in a blazing rollercoaster of flames by the end of the season because they're not that good, enabling them to start all over the next year, as the "underdog".  But of course they're the underdog that ESPN always roots for.  It's like NBC and Notre Dame, except Texas does not own ESPN - thus it really is just the commentators who want to make sweet love to the Texas football team.  It's just, ugh.  Gross.