Tuesday's Fortune: 27 March 2012

MEAL: 2 Shrimp Egg Rolls + 1 small order Beef With Oyster Sauce = $6.85 + $1.15 tip

Hotcha! Hank

Tuesday's Fortune: 20 March 2012

MEAL: 1 order (8) Crab Rangoon + 1 small order Sweet & Sour Chicken = $8.14 + $1.86 tip

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Tuesday's Fortune: 13 March 2012

MEAL: 2 Shrimp Egg Rolls + 1 small order Hunan Pork = $6.85 + $1.15 tip

Hotcha! Hank

Something 4 The Weekend # 238

The Simulated Jerry Martin Situation: Threshold 3000: "Infrastructure" [mp3]

EA/Maxis announced this week that they will be releasing SimCity 5 some time in 2013, and I must admit, I got a simulated boner thinking about it because SimCity is either my second or third favorite video game franchise. Mario Bros and Thief would be the other two.

In terms of hours spent playing, SimCity 3000 Unlimited is probably the game I've spent the most time with, and I still spend a day or two with it four or five times a year. This weekend will likely be one of those occasions.

Actually, I think I'm going to fire it up right now.

And for the record, there really is a Jerry Martin who wrote 20 full-length songs for the SimCity 3000 soundtrack. About half of them are performed by him on synths, and the other half performed by a Jazz quintet. This is one of his songs.

Hotcha! Hank

Tuesday's Fortune: 06 March 2012

MEAL: 2 Vegetable Spring Rolls + 1 small order Shrimp With Hot Garlic Sauce = $7.05 + 95¢ tip

Hotcha! Hank

Something 4 The Weekend # 237

Grinderman: Grinderman 2: "Palaces Of Montezuma" [mp3]

I just finished watching season 2 of Luther over at Netflix, and this was the song played over the closing credits of the final episode. If you haven't seen Luther, I highly recommend it. Idris Elba plays the fearless and brilliant detective, John Luther, taking on London criminals that are so absurd in their extremes that they could have been ripped from the cheesiest of comic books. As any good show of these times, seemingly everyone is morally ambiguous, or compromised to one extent or another, although in the end, like any good cop show, the good guys win. Anyways, Luther is an extremely well-done and engaging crime drama that I cannot recommend enough.

Grinderman is damn awesome too.

Hotcha! Hank