Weekend Recap: Juice Gets Beaned

The most important thing that happened this weekend… Okay, the only interesting thing that happened this weekend didn’t even happen to me. I never actually saw it, I was looking some other direction.

On Sunday, Juice and I went to the Stouffville Country Market (a flea market) in search of the usual crap you’d find at a flea market. So for me that meant vinyls (I didn’t find any) and for Juice that meant vinyls (he didn’t find any either) and books.

Juice likes looking at these sorts of places for a certain sort of book. He likes those choose your own adventure style of books. But not the cheesy ones were you, the reader, are some kid stopping smugglers like some lame Hardy Boys book. He reads the ones where you are a samurai or an elf or a robot or some sci-fi mumbo jumbo.

Juice eventually found this one book and it was eight dollars. I remember these things when I was a kid and they weren’t eight dollars when they were new. They were five or six bucks. So Juice takes the book to the old lady running the store.

“This can’t be eight bucks, could it?”

“If its eight bucks, it must be first edition.”

She takes the book from Juice’s hand, opens it to the publishing information page and points to it.

“See first edition!”

She then closes the book and beans Juice in the head with the book.

And he still bought it.

Other than that I had a pretty quiet weekend. Friday night, I went to the Wonder Twins place with Bob and we watched a DVD.

The rest of the weekend I spent playing video games. Yeah, I’m a mature human being who does adult things…

I’ve got this game called The Darkness. When I was a kid, video games didn’t have storylines, it was just Pac-Man eating some dots while evading those little ghosty guys. This game I’m playing now is more movie than game.

If I wanted to watch a movie, I’d buy a movie. And you’d think with that much movie, it would actually make some sense. The movie, err game starts in contemporary New York City and the central character is some young mafioso. After a couple of levels, he’s driven to suicide. But instead of dying, he awakes to find himself in the trenches of World War I.

Oh, and did I mention this guy has a pair of talking tentacles.

I really don’t care much for storylines in video games. The last game I was playing, F.E.A.R. has a storyline but I really didn’t pay much attention to it. All I know is that I shot anything that moved until the game was over. And to win that game, I had to shoot a little girl in the head. I don’t reallly know why, but it seemed to work. Maybe this girl was evil or something. She probably was, when I didn’t shoot her, she’d kill me.

But in this Darkness game, I can’t skip by a lot of movie parts. Don’t these video game makers realize I just wanna shoot things.

Recommended Listening: Epic by Faith No More.