Archive for December, 2006

Winter Wonderland

Thursday, December 28th, 2006

Bimmer here. I am completely digging this weather. What weather, you ask? Winter in Wisconsin. The term is usually reserved for the warmest most hardcore large green “G” painted on their chest kind of people. Here it is nearing the end of December and it is 40 degrees outside. We have not even seen snow butfor twice this year.

I know I know, what is a Christmas winter wonderland without snow? Well, I have to be honest. The kid in me misses the White Christmas feel of the holidays. However, the rear-wheeled, slush, salt, heavy traffic, ice scraping, sun-roof part of me is just giddy.

WAIT, if the winter is extra warm this year, is the summer going to extra Hot? Lets all hope not.

It was a Brown Christmas this year and its wrapping up to be a Brown New Years as well. If Al Gore Stops by, give him a message for me. “You were right, we were wrong, nice Rolling Stone cover.” Until then, you can find me at the bottom of a big glass of egg nog passed out next to the PS2, GT4 still running. (Raises self off floor and lifts nearly empty glass-o-nog) Here’s to 2007!

Have a Fabulous New Years! Peace.
~ Bimmer

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A Heroic Move…

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

As the NBC show Heroes sweeps the nation with excitement, I too can’t help but take part in the addiction.  It’s started to become a weekly gathering for my roommates and me.  Now, I’m not one to get addicted to shows too easily or get excited about a new episode of a TV show, but Heroes has me pumped.  I think this show is set apart from other shows because of its willingness to change our ideas about a TV show.  For instance, the characters in the show have blogs and myspace accounts.  Also, the show regularly puts out on-line comic book issues that correlate to the story taking place.  This gives the show a life outside of the one hour episode we see every week.  It allows viewers to delve into the psyche of these unsuspecting heroes. 

I think it’s an exciting and surprising revolution of the comic book. This isn’t a show based off an existing comic. It doesn’t have an established fan base to expect that the original text of the comic be held true. Instead, the show is the comic and the comic supplements the shows story. This helps to establish a fan base because it reaches out to the comic lover, the TV show addict, and the occasional fan of both these media like me. My only hope is they don’t sell out too early. This show is ripe for corporate whoring. Video games are an obvious next step but I hope they aren’t a tragedy like the first matrix game ultimately was.

Come along for a satirical side on an imaginary conversation about the first Matrix game.  A new matrix game?  Boy I hope it’s as new and cutting edge as the movie.  What’s that?  The only “kewl” thing is a Max Payne-ish slow-mo move.

Back to Heroes:
If Heroes does release a video game I hope they think it through and don’t rush for the quick buck.  This show and all its side stories on the web are definitely not a broke machine so I hope some corporate money hungry goon doesn’t decide to “fix” it.

If you like the show too, then ignore my pessimism and enjoy.  If you haven’t seen it, give it a shot.  And if you are a gambler, then place your bets for whether this show will sell out.

-Scruff
If it weren’t for that horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college¦

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Print This and Put It On Your Fridge

Friday, December 1st, 2006

Bimmer here, This is my first post as a cartoon and I gotta say, Its pretty flippin sweet! I may be the preppy member of the Snow Day Cafe Ambiguously Enigmatic duo, but at least I have a watch. Hey Scruffy, What Time Is It? Yeah, yeah that’s what I thought. Like any cartoon two-some, there is the smart one…and then there is the…other one. In our case (and our yearn for world domination), lets just say Scruffy and I fighting over the rights to be Pinky.

In addition to my partner in crime, my posts might focus moron cars and the strange but true events that occur to us on a daily basis. For some reason strange things just tend to happen to us. Like Clark Kent, I too must put down my glasses and take my pants off in order to fight the good fight. Alter egos in hand, Sruffy and I will do our best to keep you smiling and coming back for more.

However, If you have just stumbled this site in your vast online effort to find A counterfeit Mini, you are barking up the wrong tree. Nevertheless, if you stick around and chill with us, your bad-literate-self might just enjoy… yourself.

Like Dumb and Dumber, we get funnier the more you watch.
- Bimmer

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