Here it is the start of the fifth year of Hotelblues.com. I’m on my way out the door to go have a beer at the Bop. Not much more to say than that.

I keep forgetting to mention this, but my site hits the start of it’s fifth year on the 31st of this month. I think it is amazing that it’s lasted this long. And who knows how longer it will go. These last four years have been something. I hope it makes it another five.

Ok here are a few links I thought you should know about. First the newest Penny Arcade made me laugh a lot. I used to play MTG and still know a few people that do. The comic in the link below is in reference to the upcoming on-line MTG. MTG=Magic The Gathering, in case it has to be spelled out for you.

copyright 2002 Krahulik/Holkins

The Geek Hierarchy made me laugh as much as the above Penny Arcade strip. I’m always fighting my inner geek. So it was nice to see where it was I may or may not be on the chart. I may be only 29% geek, but there are lots of spots on that chart I could fall in on. Any of you on this chart?

Have you seen this movie? A Jerry Bruckheimer produced flick I liked? A Jerry Bruckheimer movie that didn’t play like a Jerry Bruckheimer movie? I’ve not been this disgusted and angry from a movie since the Nick Cage movie 8mm.

I’m not a guy who has served in the armed forces. I’m not really a kind of person who thinks military force is always the answer. But I feel for those guys. The US soldiers, the guys whose job it is to be soldiers. What a cluster fuck. Them poor fucking guys.

And those Somalians, what kind of savages are those people? Fucking dragging the corpses of those dead US soldiers around? That is savage. That was an instance when I could have lived with civilian casualties. Lot’s of civilian casualties.

And I have respect for the men who serve. Sure I play all the games like Ghost Recon and Operation Flashpoint. So I have seen a lot of simulated action. But seeing Black Hawk Down just makes it clear that I never could do what those US soldiers do. I would have shit my pants ten times over in a fight like that.

Black Hawk Down has been compared to Saving Private Ryan. But Ryan was a hypothetical what if of WWII. Black Hawk Down was a real engagement. Ryan’s war scenes didn’t sicken me. Maybe the Omaha Beach scene in the beginning. But the war scenes in Black Hawk Down made me want to cover my eyes. Seeing characters who are based on real people die just had that effect on me.

It’s been some eight hours since I’ve seen the film and I’m still angry. This is a good time to end this one.

The comments feature of my site is working again. It had been not working. So if you click on the thing that says 0 Comments it takes you to a page were you can leave your comments on what I write. It’s the kind of feature all of the cool sites have. You don’t have to register to post comments. But if you register you can get your own unique name. So give it shot.

Here is a neat link that I thought was really cool. The LOTR Personality Test. Then I took it and was a little bummed. It turns out that I’m Boromir. I don’t know if that’s good or bad. Oh poor Boromir. I did think the LOTR’s movie played Boromir a little to bad. Boromir wasn’t bad, just a little misguided. I thought the dude that played him did a great job. Seeing Boromir die was neat in an epic kind of way. So I guess there’s worse things to be than poor Boromir.

Okay the Poll is now fixed. I hope. The culprit was that I hadn’t popped in the code for the cookies on every page. It should be kosher now. Well that’s it. Go about your business, there’s nothing to see here.