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This Is The "Go To" Place For Images Of Lipstick

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From reading my site usage statistics, it appears I have had a lot of random visitors come to this blog in the last couple weeks via a Google image search for lipstick. The ordering of my image will probably change over time, but it currently is third in the search results.

People clicking through the image to my blog are landing on a particular Unconnected Tuesdays post.

The strange thing is that people finding my website in this manner will usually spend a few minutes on the post, perhaps trying to find a connection between my lipstick picture and the prawn.

I would like to take this opportunity to welcome all lipstick visitors and indicate to you that, as far as I know, there is no connection between lipstick and prawns.

Love,

Splotchy

movies

I Have To Admit, Netflix Is Quite Nifty

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I don’t know that I’ll devote a space to regularly recount or review DVDs I have watched from Netflix, but I would like to express my happiness thus far with getting movies in the mail.

So far, I have watched You’re Gonna Miss Me, a great documentary about one of my favorite musical artists, Roky Erickson.

I am watching Season 1 of the BBC Helen Mirren series Prime Suspect. As the first episode on Disc 1 ended, MizSplotchy turned to me and asked me if I thought the case Mirren’s character was working on would probably take the rest of the season to solve, to which I excitedly replied, “I don’t know!” Soon after we finished Disc 1, I moved Disc 2 up to the top of my queue. I was happily surprised to see a young Ralph Fiennes, as well as Tom Wilkinson, who played Mirren’s boyfriend. Having only seen Wilkinson play roles in movies like In The Bedroom and Batman Begins, I was surprised that he was a British actor with one of them British accents. Oh, those cuddly Brits and their adorable accents.

So much goodness is ahead — Jacques Tourneur spooky films, Jean-Pierre Melville film noirs, some documentaries recommended by Chris, some older horror movies, over-the-top Japanese action movies, boy howdy.

Movies is good.

arcade games, sound quiz

Arcade Quiz (Mano a Mano)

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I was asking myself, what have I done for Evil Evil Genius lately? Well, I know what I haven’t done.

Yes, it’s time for another arcade sound quiz!

All of these games share a common theme.

In each game, you control a protagonist that uses his or her bare hands to lay some serious smackdown on some deserving fools (or as Mr. T would say, “foos”).

I’ll give you the year the game came out along with the sound sample. A few of these games have some relatively primitive voice samples, for all you primitive voice sample fans out there.

Mano a Mano 1 (1982)
This game is pretty fun. I think the music should give it away.

Mano a Mano 2 (1984)
I would rarely get past the third level (okay, to be honest, the second level would give me lots of trouble too), but this game was tons of fun.

Mano a Mano 3 (1987)
Believe it or not, though I am the first to admit I am a terrible arcade gamer, I could easily finish this game on one quarter. Yes, I used the magic elbow move that basically made you unstoppable.

Mano a Mano 4 (1988)
This game might be a little obscure. I used to play this at the Spaceport arcade when I was going to school at University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana. No, I did not have any friends.

Mano a Mano 5 (1992)
I was working in an arcade while I was at school down in Carbondale, but I stayed away from this game. It scared the crap out of me with its complicated controls. I started playing a couple years ago via the MAME emulator. I suck at it, but it’s fun. If you can recognize this game, I give you permission to give me crap for not doing a fatality.

Oh, I just thought of one more that I wanted to include!

Mano a Mano 6 (1984)
I wasn’t very good at this game (surprised?). This game’s controls were a little unusual, and in some ways were a precursor to Mano a Mano Game #5.

UPDATE:

Answers posted!

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