Well, that basically settles it.

Last Saturday, I was at Benaroya Hall, at a Q&A for the incredibly talented (and always funny) Kevin Smith. He answered questions and told stories for a solid 3 and a half hours.

One person asked him "Who is driving?".

And Kevin simply replied, "Bear is driving, how can this be?".

In another reference to that scene, he also touched on how his ideal transformers movie is just 15 minutes of busses full of people transforming into robots and then have blood and guts just dripping out of them during the transformation.

All in all, a fun evening.

Looking foreward to seeing Mike Birbiglia on Friday. Will HE reference bits from old Kevin Smith cartoons that our blog seems to obsess over? (hint: probably not.)

In the Spirit of the Season

Ok, so it's been a while since we've had a YNTE post about... food. And it's almost halloween. How do we remedy this? With this:


It looks delicious. But it probably looks more delicious than it tastes... or is it?

Source here.

I feel OLD.

Jurrassic Park came out SIXTEEN YEARS AGO.

And on the heels of my feeling old, xkcd had to point out today that Pokemon has been out for OVER A DECADE and that kids born after Aladdin came out will turn EIGHTEEN next year.

Good Lord, I'm a fossil.

Cue the fanfare!

You Need to Eat has surpassed 200 posts!

This is a truly momentous occasion, almost as important as the time White Jesus came to Washington DC with a group of our founding fathers (including George Washington, Seqoyah, Christina McAullife, and "Black Union Soldier") to give our nation's constitution to a small child in front of a politician ignoring the event on his cell phone, a lawyer counting money, and an immigrant who is shocked and terrified to see White Jesus, but "is free to worship as he pleases".

I'm pretty sure that actually happened.

EDIT: I apologize that in my original description, I failed to point out that Ronald Reagan was among the founding fathers.

Just like that one time

Remember that one time where we pissed off Evan by editing this one comment to have bad grammar like one of the posts earlier that day? And he took away our editing rights? Something about more better or something. Whatever. In any case, this commercial that I just saw reminds me of that:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6WX7XGcRhk

Good times... Good times. If we had the power to edit each other's posts again I'd say edit the hell out of this one. Whaddya say Evan? (Maybe my feeble attempt to restore editing powers will work).


P.S. EVAN IS A GOD AND I TOTALLY RESPECT HIS DECISION TO REVOKE ADMIN RIGHTS AND I KNOW THAT MOSTFUNNEREST ISN'T A WORD. NOTHING GOOD CAN COME FROM PEOPLE EDITING EACH OTHERS POSTS.

(12/22/09 edit)P.P.S. YO EVAN I'M REALLY HAPPY FOR YOU, I'MMA LET YOU FINISH BUT THAT ONE POST HAD THE BEST EDITS OF ALL TIME.

Fantasy Football

Recently multiple webcomics have expounded upon the topic of fantasy football, namely that it's really freaking nerdy.

First, two offerrings from Dave Kellett at Sheldon:


And also one from Penny Arcade:



These produced an interesting conversation wherein my dad suggested a combination of the two: a fantasy game with fighters and magic and dragons and adventure, but run off stats generated from the real world (ex, football stats).

My thought is that football stats themselves are too sport-ish to be the backend for this real world RPG, but i think the concept is sound: take the RPG into the real world of stats where any number of variables could affect the outcome, instead of just dice rolls. It could be a great way to get nerds to care about... something.

I just haven't figured out what. Any thoughts?

I'm making fun of something someone said and it isn't Tom for once.

This follows a conversation about how nerdy Umi is.

Umi: I had to take my phone off my belt clip. It kept hitting stuff.
Evan: Just put it in your pocket protector, you nerd.
Umi: I WISH I had a pocket protector.

...he wasn't joking.