Manny's Blog of Awesomeness

I was going to post a rant about Comic-Con and the insane hotel situation a couple days ago but a good friend has helped us out of a bind.  I was beginning to think I would have to sleep in Mission Bay or stay with my relatives at Sea World or something!  Let me tell you, I wasn’t looking forward to have kids gawk at me all day and try to pet me.  No thank you.  But yeah, we’ll be at Comic-Con.  Phil and Brendan are working on planning some meetups and we all are hoping to have our zine done by then to show off to folks.  It should be an awesome time!

Sorry I have been sick.  I also was trying to help Brax get his facebook page up and running.  The dude already got locked out of his Facebook account!  He is claiming it is not his fault, but seeing as how he manages to break everything he touches related to technology, I don’t buy it.  So I am keeping the page updated while he figures that out.

What else is new?  I got a new Xbox yesterday so I can finally download the rest of the Beatles albums and some of that other Rock Band DLC as well.  I don’t know if I’ll have time to play it anytime soon though since Final Fantasy 13 came out today.  Yeah, I’m an RPG geek.  Fight me.

Sorry for the lack of updates.  My computer started acting all crazy and I just now got it fixed.  I made the jump to Windows 7 since Vista was causing a lot of problems.  My music library is getting so large that whenever I make any kind of big change to my computer setup I have to take some extra care to make sure all my music gets put back where it is supposed to be.  I guess that’s one instance where Brax’s refusal to enter the digital age pays off.  Anyways, as Brax said, we’re going to be at Long Beach One Day Comic Expo on Saturday.  We’ll be handing out stickers so be sure to find us!

Yes, that is a full size Fender Strat Rock Band controller.  Yes, it is $300.  That baby isn’t plastic.  It’s an actual Fender Stratocaster.  Some guitar purists might balk at the idea of wasting a perfectly good REAL guitar and turning it into what is essentially a toy, but I say it’s awesome.  No, I don’t care that you can buy an actual Strat (with Rock Band branding, no less) for about $300.  That one doesn’t play Rock Band.  How can a Manta Ray even play fake guitar?  I’m awesome, that’s how.  Merry Christmas everyone!

Man, I love technology. If you had told me five years ago I could post every thought and whim to the Internet from a device that fits in my pocket, I would probably have shook your hand. Now I want one of those Droid phones just because I want to be able to say Droid all day long. And maybe a couple times tell someone this is not the Droid they are looking for. I’m totally sure no one has done that yet.

I’m trying to decide upon a theme for this blog. I think I’m going to go with this minimalist one as I believe it reflects my personality well.  While I can be quite loud, I choose not to be.  Brax tried to get me to use his theme, but I am my own Manta Ray and I will do what I want!  Let me know what you think.  Or don’t.  See if I care.