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Well,

We are back with some more thoughts from the resident psychiatric patient.

I can’t in good conscience keep using Mr. Kings title, so I have changed it to something more original. I hope you approve.

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Some football fans will recognize this title as I am blatantly stealing it from the SI writer Peter King.

I do this 1. because I love his writing and 2. I think it is a great idea. Hopefully I can make it a more regular feature so Smackfu will have some more content,

So let’s begin, Shall we?

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Many of you… wait… I’m not sure I’m allowed to use the term “many” when referring to our current readership, but “both of you” really sounds too depressing…

Anyway, many of you may wonder what the hell we have actually been doing here over at Smackfu since none of us could get off our asses for nigh on a year now and actually post some content.

Well, most of the content I had to add was bitching about things, and Drew kinda made a rule that we should be posting about things that make us happy.

While I did try to convince him that bitching really did make me happy, he was not swayed. In fact I was told, rather unceremoniously, that if I wanted to “Whine like the little wuss that you are” to go do it on myspace with the rest of the idiots, but keep it off Smackfu.

Well, since that would require extra effort on my part it will be painfully obvious that this did not happen. (But I did bitch to my wife about it considerably. This made me happy for a bit. Until it made her unhappy, then it was not a good place to be… but I digress.)

So, in the interest of not bitching, I decided to actually try to find something other than bitching that made me happy… this has apparently taken me ten months.

My apologies.
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Yet another artist is gone…

It was a very bad week for the world. Boyd Coddington, Jeff Healy, and now Gary Gygax.

Gary Gygax affected my life more than I can say.

Believe me, I’ve written this six times and it has yet to come out right.

I had always thought I would get to meet him and thank him for the what he brought into my world, now that will never happen.

I have to defer to Eric Burns over at Websnark. Please take the time to read his eulogy.

Goodbye Mr. Gygax.

Thank you for touching my life.
-R

Boyd Coddington passed away this morning at the age of 63. He will be missed…

Boyd Coddington, Hot Rod King, Dead At Age 63 @ Jalopnik

Boyd Coddington, Remembered @ Jalopnik

Nice article over at Winding Road about our current favorite car around here, the 2008 Challenger SRT-8.

An axiom from the world of industrial design goes like this: If something looks right, it probably is. Examples are legion, from the classic Eames chair to Raymond Loewy’s Coke bottle. This saying also rings true in the world of cars. There was nothing right about the exterior design of the Pontiac Aztek. In contrast, from any angle the 2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8 looks right. Very right.

Potent Pony: 2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8 @ Winding Road

Being addicted to technology is hard; something better is always around the corner. Not even two weeks ago I was writing about the soon-to-be-released Garmin nuviphone and it has already been knocked off of my radar by the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 due mid-2008. I still think that the nuviphone is a compelling product and will find a decent market as it just makes sense to combine Garmin’s great nuvi GPS navigation system with a cell phone. The game changer there is adding internet capabilities to the GPS device which greatly enhances it’s capabilities.

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The still pics had me, but this video just puts it over the top for me. Check out this video of the Challenger playing in the desert from autoblog.com. I’m completely in love with the look and sound of the Challenger in motion.

autoblog – VIDEO: Dodge Challenger romping in the desert

Wow! When will I have the time and money to have a playroom like this?!?!? I’m feeling extremely nostalgic right now. Forget a M.A.M.E. cabinet… I want something like THIS!

Peter Hirschberg has just finished his stunning retro-gaming heaven, a Valhalla for the best arcade video games ever. His Luna City Arcade has 57 fully-restored arcade classics, which span from Asteroids to Zaxxon, plus a whole load of pinballs. Amazingly enough, he does all this on his own dime, for the love of it. It’s open to the public now, and the best thing: entrance and quarters are completely free. Check the video, huge gallery and the interview with Peter after the jump.

Gizmodo – Game Valhalla -Retro Arcade Gaming Fan Heaven Is Worth Infinite Quarters

Well, congrats to the N.Y. Giants on winning the Super Bowl this year. What a good game, it started out kind of slow, but the last half was great. I was kind of hoping that the Patriots would pull off a perfect season, but I’ve been a Giants fan since I was little as I grew up near NYC in Connecticut. Either team could have won that game and I would have been happy.

The commercials are always a fun part of the Super Bowl, my favorite this year had to be the E*Trade spot with the baby and clown.

You know, me and the boys were talkin’ about what to do with all this extra coin, and I was like, I’m rentin’ a clown. Heh-heh, and I did, Bobo here and uhh… I really underestimated the creepiness

Now that my friends, is just brilliantly funny…

There were a bunch of other great ads, some of my other favorites can be found after the jump.

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