If you read this site, you probably like free stuff. I do too. A few weeks back, I went to a Bruce Springsteen concert in a limo for free. I am still a little confused as to how it all came about. But when the tab is picked up, who asks questions?
As faithful readers know, I am a sworn enemy of the blackguards and villains who plot ways to charge for what used to come for free. You may have deduced that I am thusly an enthusiast of what one normally pays for but can get for free. It's like stealing but without the guilt.
Last month, I took advantage of Massachusetts's special sans sales-tax weekend by purchasing a five-volume History of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts--God Save the Commonwealth! (for who else can?)--for $100 (20% off and no 5% protection fee to the racket known as state). I did my part to starve the beast. How about you?
I caught a Shakespeare-in-the-park performance of Two Gentlemen of Verona. A two-year-old groundling accompanying me had his own ideas of entertainment, as did some previous nocturnal visitors to the park--leaving souvenirs of used condoms and a broken O'Doul's bottle (Who smashes a bottle of non-alcholic beer?) from their clandestine meeting, which caused the noisy and anarchic young lad's hasty departure. I stayed and enjoyed the performance. The following day, I checked out of the library the BBC's version of Othello starring Anthony Hopkins in the title role. It's now my favorite Shakespeare play. Library cards are better than rental fees. Sweet Desdemona. Sweeter the cash in my wallet.
Later that week, I took my son to a special children's concert in a different park, thankfully not known for anonymous encounters during off hours, where we heard Jumbalaya, among other ditties, along with an energetic brigade of pre-schoolers. The next day, a make-belive quintet of Beatles, the Faux Fab Five if you will, seranaded a packed park with Ticket To Ride, In My Life, Day Tripper, and more. If it were not for a middle-aged woman slumped in a lawn chair performing a peculiar index-finger dance to the songs, I would have sworn it was Shea Stadium circa-1965.
On a recent Friday night, along with Kettle One superwater disguised as mere Aquafina, I again attend a free concert. How clever, I thought, was I too concoct this elaborate sheme to privately drink alcohol in a public park underneath the noses of cops and within the gaze of so many adult tattlers--until I saw a courageous gentleman drinking beers openly. His brazeness smites me. Rather than a Beatlemania nostalgia act or a Hank Williams, Sr. stand-in, both acts performed original music. Though the headliners were very good, I'm left with some superfreaky memories from the folk-jazz fusion opening act. Imagine the satirical environmentalist lyrics heard on South Park. Now imagine someone earnestly singing those songs. One number was called "Green Is the New Red, White, and Blue." At least he got the first third right. It was church music for environmentalists. In that religion I worship Satan, so I made an offering of the Red Bull can and the Aquafina bottle to the trash barrell despite the ease with which I could have recycled. Let no one say this man's music didn't inspire me.
There's no such thing as a free lunch, but last weekend friends had us over for dinner. On the way there, we passed a free car wash performed by scantily-clad visions who worked as waitresses at the pool hall sponsoring the event. This must have been the scene many an Islamic suicide bomber believed awaited him, though something told me that few of these bikini vixins were virgins (and few of the bombers made it to an afterlife destination below 375 degrees fahrenheit). The view was free, but the "free" car wash required a donation to charity. I opted to watch instead of wash.
The drive-by, mouth-agape stare discredits the "axiom" that you get what you pay for. Alas, a Church of St. Rachel Carson choir concert disproves the notion that best things in life are free.
Free game just released on Friday.
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Should see Anthony Hopkins in 'Titus'. It's basically the closest thing to a Dali painting you could actually see in film. Might make 'Titus Andronicus' your favorite.
Wow, another Sierra fan. While I don't care for the QFG series all that much, these guys did a pretty good job with it. Though, I have to say, if this is product of EIGHT years of work, I think their chances of getting any serious work as game designers are pretty low.
Accepting freebies as good stuff cheap (or in this case 'free'), to coin a phrase, is just setting expectations low. In my opinion. However, I'm not necessarily critical of that as I have been and will continue to be a fan of free stuff.
But the reality is that anything worth anything isn't free.
Speaking of going out of one's way to not recycle -- today marks the first day that the trash cans under the desk at my work become recycle bins. I plan to instead take my waste into my own hands and throw it away at the end of the day. Recycling is largely a waste. A good episode of B%ll Sh*t explains this well: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1444391672891013193
Also, this trend of certain cities and grocery store chains banning plastic bags is pure stupid: http://science.howstuffworks.com/paper-plastic.htm
Homer, they also did recreations of King's Quest I & II. And another group did King's Quest III.
Yeah, I'm a HUGH KQ fan (and a fan of Abandonware in general) and I've followed those guys for a while. I much preferred KQI and III. Their take on KQII was stupid (IMO) and even came complete with a trite attack on the Church. Well done, but I didn't care for the story.
HUGE
Jeez you people are old. I grew up on Sega Genesis and Nintendo 64.
Video games are just a high tech way of saying "I play with myself".
