“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold…”

And with those lines, so begins Terry Gilliam’s nightmarish and incomprehensible (and ultimately meaningless) orgy of hallucinatory, nightmare inducing imagery and meandering monologuing haze of a film that refuses to follow any semblance of normalcy or logic, instead existing in its own disturbing two hour drug induced haze of paranoia and madness.

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There are three types of story you can get from a physicist about Las Vegas. The first, although not strictly speaking of the city itself, is that of the Nevada Test Site—the arena where, in the 1950s, the nuclear era came of age, and theories of thermonuclear fission and fusion were put to the experimental test. [Question to ponder: what type of cloud is Las Pegasus built on?]

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If you wanna go to a Las Vegas pony con that is NOT shit, check this out. It'll get you money off and stuff.
And so... I mean, come on, let us, the Barcast, sell you on it.
We're "good" at that.

-Pencil

Ack! Forgot about this. Go do a FimFiction Fandom Survey! It's interesting. And fun. And entertaining. So do it!

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Sorry for the dearth of blog entries of late, and for my online friends, sorry to be scarce. The reason is that I remain rather moody right now, perhaps due to a higher-than-normal testosterone dose that seems to have thrown me for a bit of a loop. I asked for it as an experiment, but maybe it’s just too much of a good thing. Also not helping is continuing difficulties at work, though I’m pleased to report that the release I’ve been working on for well over a month was finally performed

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For my last full day in Las Vegas, I sat down for a single playing session... that lasted nearly eleven hours. I played in the $375 deepstack at the new Aria casino resort about a mile south of Harrah's. How did I do? Here's the tournament board when I went out:

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So, yeah, crazy year so far. We got lots of cool stuff going on. Going to Vegas this June to HRPC as more than just a con-goer.
Oh, and we got an actual voice actor from the show! Like, what the holy freaking hell did we do to get this person?! I was as shocked as you all are. I mean, yeah it's no surprise that people from the community get actual people from the show to appear on their podcasts and videos once in a while. But, US? Really?

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Do you think Paris would have been safer if everyone carried a gun?

Do you think the mentally ill should carry guns?

Do you think that poodle is going to get off Donald Trump's head anytime soon?

Wait, it's actually his hair? Seriously?

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Greetings and salutations, my friends.

This is your top-of-the-line film, TV show, and episode reporter here with another review.

Today, for the 5th installment of this year's "Thanksgiving Treat", and for my 6th analysis on a member of the James Bond franchise, I'm gonna give you guys my take of Sean Connery's 6th outing as the title character: "Diamonds Are Forever".

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