Going Off The Grid

Ghosting.

Long ago when I played video games, one of my favorites was Super Mario Kart for Super Nintendo (or SNES for those hip to the lingo, ya dig?). The reasons I don’t play video games anymore can wait for another day. Alas, this game was typical in its modes for play like any other racing game; there was Campaign, Head-to-Head, and Time Trial. The Time Trial was where you, by yourself, drove a course and tried to complete it as fast as possible.

Whenever you got the best time, that run was saved forever and ever as a ghost. If you tried to race that course again, that ghost of your best run would be right there with you. I can’t begin to tell you the amount of times that ghost would cut a corner better or hit a ramp faster and would beat me. I would soon find myself hating this ghost and its nonexistent guts (because it’s a ghost and according to my thorough knowledge of ghosts gained from watching the film Casper one time - they have no organs). I would hate how that ghost time and time again was faster; in fact, I’d start to think the game was cheating - a classic phrase for anyone who ever played video games as a kid.

Then I realized - the ghost was me.

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Conservative Sheep

Reblogged from animalsbeingdicks

animalsbeingdicks:

Conservative Sheep says “Go back to Burning Man, you dancing hippie! And get a job!”

Got Work Done.

It’s true. I have not wrote an entry in quite some time for this online diary. Let’s be real and admit that a blog is a diary. You can name it whatever you want to sound cooler but dude, seriously, you write a diary.

I’ve been writing… it’s just been screenplays. If you read this then you know that if I only have time to work on one thing, I’d like it to be a screenplay. I have mental posts for Tumblr all the time. What I mean by mental posts is that while driving, or hanging out, or whenever - I will get an idea for a Tumblr post in my head. The problem is I just don’t get to a computer to write it down. The same thing happens with tweets.

But plenty has been done since my last entry. I finished my “splash page” which I like to think is basically my online resume. www.about.me/spencermosness

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So-

I just realized that the most recent post I reblogged, with the guys having dinner on the 405, are friends of mine. I don’t think I’ve seen Matt Corrigan dressed up with hair slicked back, so that’s a first. The man is amazing; he’s the one that won an episode of WipeOut! this year. I love that guy - many a good memory of college with him, like almost getting stabbed.

So the other night I was preparing Grey for a bath. My usual routine is to lay him on the bed, get him down to his diaper, go turn on the bath, and hang out with him for a few minutes as the tub gets right. As I laid with him on the bed waiting for the tub, we did our usual thing and he grabbed my finger, squeezed it, and was just being a baby - but it made me think.

What about Superman?

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