Club Nintendo Elite Status Gold Reward

For dropping over $500 on Nintendo products this year, as well as spending a fair amount of time tediously registering and answering surveys about my game purchases online to amass the required number of coins to achieve gold status, the Nintendo Club has graciously bestowed upon me the following exclusive end of the year award for being such a loyal patron! And I only had to wait 6 months to get it! Are you ready? It's a...
4"x5" CARDBOARD CALENDAR!!!! YEAH! SURE! WHY NOT! 

"What's this in the mail? NOA? Hmmm, no last name. I should probably alert the police again. Hold up. Wait a sec --- Ha! I figured it out! It stands for NINTENDO CLUB of AMERICA!!!" That's right, a scant 6 months ago they told me they were sending me my gold status reward. Finally, big business showing us little consumers who put them on top some much deserved gratitude! And "people" say these faceless corporations only care about money. PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT! Take that you hippy Occupy Such and Such-ers! NINTENDO GIVES A SHIT ABOUT ME.

That's right ladies, I can get you into an exclusive club: CLUB NINTENDO.

BONUS! Free mini-calendar with my free mini-calendar!

Hmmm. These flaps must attach themselves to some other soon to be arriving prize that had to be sent separately via UPS due to it's size. Probably some kind of large, heavy oakwood display case featuring ornately carved golden figures of Zelda characters amidst an intricate Kokiri Forest tree border. That's got to be it.
FUCKING KICK ASS.
  I WIN.

Oh wait. It folds into a stand. Those crazy Japanese and their art of OREGANO! It's truly mind blowing what only being good at math can produce.

AH, the decisions! Mario Kart! Skyward Sword! Kirby! Starfox! Kid Icarus! Some bubble headed elves! Random kittens! A baboon or something! Now I know what a captain of industry must feel like! All these cards are double sided! Which picture should I choose to feature on that month?! All I know is, I can't wait for it to be January or November which I have cleverly renamed  LEGEND OF ZELDA MONTH . Which occurs twice a year! TOO MUCH!

Here it is proudly displayed upon my desk!

Thanks NINTENDO!  I'll be sure to spend even more money on Nintendo products in 2012. Maybe I'll even get 25 Super Mario Bros buttons like all those devoted members who spent such a ridiculously large amount of hard earned cash on Nintendo products this year that they achieved the coveted title of Platinum Reward Status and received 25 small metal pins in a cardboard box! LUCKY!!!!

Astrophoto of the Andromeda Galaxy...

taken by my Dad at his home observatory in Arizona.

You can take spectacular pictures like this too without having to construct your own computer controlled telescope and digital astro imaging system like he did. Just wait a few billion years when the Andromeda galaxy collides with our own and you can take a close up with your camera phone....right before you and the entire summation of humankind is completely obliterated.



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TARDIS Drawing Lift Off

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Every time I draw the TARDIS, the damn thing leaves time and space on me.

Original journal sketch.

All elements at 100% opacity. Added color and effects layers in Pixelmator.

Animated GIF Test

Me vs the Master. Testing this GIF Maker I downloaded with a previous doodle.

Newly Released Lost Episode of COSMOS: "The Meat Planet"

Los Angeles Arts District Graffiti Murals

Every once in a while I take my camera down to the Arts District, specifically 2nd and Garey St around the corner from that overcrowded hipster breadline the Wurstkuche, to take some pics of the ever evolving graffiti murals. 

BUT THEN CHECK THIS AWESOME SHIT OUT: Last time we were there, we stopped by the Japanese arcade at the Little Tokyo Shopping Center and I saw this wicked piece of machinery --->

A MERCENARY TRAINING TOOL THE GOLGO 13 ARCADE GAME!!!! Now you too can step in master assassin Duke Togo's shoes and heroically shoot the living shit out of worthless people from a ridiculous distance with an M-16!!!! Finally!!!!

Pilko Pump Pants Are a Need, Not Just a Want.