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I just wanted to confirm that Mario Paint does have a mini-game in it in which you can create music.

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Wasn't there one where the whole deal was to make music? I thought that's what Mario Paint was, I guess.

Jesse, that's a funny coincidence, my wedding anniversary is Halloween. For logistical reasons we needed to have it the last Saturday in October, and it just happened to be Halloween. Let me tell you, if you think you can hold your wedding on Halloween, and your friends will resist the urge to make the obvious joke about wearing a costume, you're wrong. Also, I'm pretty sure my Jehovah's Witnesss relatives now think we're Satan worshippers. (Man, you drink the blood of one infant, and it's all people ever want to talk about.)

On the plus side, as you said, I never forget when our anniversary is, which I totally would otherwise.

Mario Paint was the first Nintendo video game to make use of the Super NES Mouse and it was a drawing, animation, sprite creation and music making program. You could draw a background, make some sprites, make them animated (up to 4 frames) and then create music to play while the animation played. There was also a flyswatting mini game.

I'm pretty sure there has never been a music making game on the SNES that starred Mario. I would've had it if there was.

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It was kind of depressing hearing all the bad jobs Jordan mentioned are jobs I'm desperately trying to land (of course, I'm desperately trying to land any job at this point). It's hard to get real professional jobs when you're going to school for most of the day.

I loved Mario Paint as a kid. I even had a whole book that taught you had to create your own music videos. I think it predicated a lot of the video game remixes you see on YouTube now.

I had a book too from Nintendo Power that showed you how to create scenes from your favorite Nintendo games. I loved it.

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The world's first Homestar Runner cartoon was done in Mario Paint.

Yeah, all the stuff in the "Museum" section is pretty cool. Especially the childrens book, which is very helpful in making sense of all the characters on the site.

I have a few of the DVD's, and they even have TMBG doing a few songs with them.

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I think one of the Hard n Phirm dudes mentioned the cremaster cycle. This was a totally bizarro exhibit at the guggenhem by Matthew Barney. I took a pretty conservative frined of mine to see it when she visted NYC and it was funny to see how uncomfortable she was with the exhibit. It was truly bizarre, to be fair. CREMASTER refers to the cremasteric reflex, or the reflex of the testes to retreat inside the body.

http://www.cremaster.net/

Also I went to the Tenacious D show at the garden. I would have to say that this was the strangest concert I ever went to. No one was rowdy, and the crowd was multi cultural and multigenerational.
there were kids who were very excited to be there, and parents escorting them, and then there were the 30something couples like myself and my husband(of which there were many). It was so diverse and the people there so obviously happy to be there, and no one was a dick. really.

The effects and set were kind of annoying. I was there to see the D. there could have been one lightbulb and them and I would have been happy.

I just now got around to listening to this one, and I have to say that the phrase "power similes and megaphors" caused one of those awesome situations where you're in a somewhat unpleasant public space (often the subway, in this instance it was the gym) and you laugh out loud really hard and everyone glares at you because they're all sad and they resent your joy.

My boyfriend and I have also been dating for a really long time and didn't have an "anniversary" because our process of getting together was extremely gradual. So we picked an arbitrary "Kristen and Patrick Day," and then thought, why stop at one? So there are two Kristen and Patrick Days, one in April and one in October. It's nice to have two, because we inevitably forget at least one of them every year.

So I skipped this episode for whatever reason the first time around (likely reason: my total and inexplicable fear of Chris Hardwick), but I just wanted to point out that a career of a baseball umpire always seemed pretty cool to me, even though I never played baseball and have held little more than a marginal interest in it since the late 80s.
It might be because I played lacrosse for a few years with the son of infamous ump Eric Gregg and he always seemed like a really cool guy at our games. Ironically, he'd stomp and shout at the ref as much as anyone else. Maybe they don't all have it so easy though.

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You forced me to bring up this bit of trivia: when he was a teenager, Eric Gregg worked for my grandfather at a print shop.