Brawling online

Just a quick word to those that may read, may not, COMMENT!

Other than that um I'm about to do an online Super Smash Bros. Brawl tournament and I suggest you kids with the game get online sometime. To answer the question about problems with the online as it is, you can get around it by going to places like the Smash World Forum and use their Smash World Friend Finder. Or you can go to my personal favorite All is Brawlthe site mixes it's friend finding with tourneys, and a facebook like appearance. SSBBPlayers is also another option. My review on this game is coming soon, it'll be the first review I've ever written and my first TRD Review so standby.

Random Thoughts

Just a quick thought session on that which is the current situation here in America. This isn't meant to be super thought out because I'm no analyst. I'm simply Everyman Dan and I've been noticing things here and there. The only thing I thought that would make this interesting is that having been in Japan for the years of 2007, I was kinda out of the loop.

Ummmmm let's see, GAS PRICES.... that's pretty much all that has to be said there huh?

OBAMA, love him or hate him he had to work through some shit to get to where he was didn't he? I mean why do idiots wait to see you succeeding before coming out and trying to be a douche whilst representing you? He had to work through that one multiple times and still came out the Democratic nominee, there must be more loving him than hating him huh?

The weather situation in the midwest is really... really bad. My heart goes out to those in the upper-midwest as that shit ain't cool.

The economy is complete shit and I really mean that. Before I left it was rosey and whilst I was away the shit hit the fan and it all came tumbling down. Weak dollar? And the job hunting is down right despicable, I've been searching since January with no luck. It's as if people are suddenly terrified of hiring right now. Which really just hurts the economy more right? I'm no economist, but with little money going into the market, doesn't that just weaken the market? Isn't that why Bush was giving away free money?

Well that was my little soapbox, if you read this stuff comment what you think about it.

Taking a Look Back: Crystal Pepsi

Along with my views on Japan segments, I'm gonna be doing some other ones, hell if I work hard enough people may actually start reading this bad boy. Soooo to start this off, let's look at a drink I haven't seen in well over a decade. That oh so refreshing, oh so pure, oh so healthy, oh so not not brown soda known as....

Crystal Pepsi:
Oh Crystal Pepsi, how much I miss you. For those unaware of the delight... and really I use that term loosely here, known as Crystal Pepsi, allow me to take you back to the year 1993. You may have been 6 like I was or older, or younger or heck, maybe not even born. The 80's were slowing in their influence over the decade and the 90's were just beginning to get their own identity. It would still be some years before the Macarena or the Spice Girls, but Crystal Pepsi slipped into the health craze with a storm. Just think about, all the great taste of Pepsi minus the bad stuff like caffeine or brown! In reality, everyone thought that making their drink clear like water made it pure like water but Pepsi Co. were really just fooling us. Sure it lacked caffeine, but the high high HIGH amount of sugar still reigned supreme. But hey I was 6 and health wasn't so much on the agenda as having clear pop. It was like drinking Sprite, except without the lemon-lime sensations tingling on your tongue.

Well to make a long story short, after everyone drank it to death in the span of a year, Pepsi got rid of it. I thought it was making a comeback in Japan, but instead they introduced Cool Cucumber... what kind of a taste is that?

Ramblings on Various Japanese Happenings pt.1

So I'm gonna use this time to do what I had planned to do during my stay in Japan, which was comment on it. You know, kinda like that TokyoCooney, JidouJidou stuff, except in written form. To begin though I must say that in written form, this will be very basic because it's hard to explain the crap that I've seen. It would be easier to get the gist if you've been to Japan or you were hanging with me when I was there, or if I had video. I didn't take much video and the stuff I took didn't reflect the craziness that I experienced, so expect this in parts and me trying my hardest to explain.

Boogie Nights:
Well I typically find that most people deal with absolute extremes of Japanese culture, such as the echi shit and the weird things that they eat. I thought I'd actually start off with something that we have in common which is a nightlife. The pic above is of a club known as The Commune in Hiroshima. As one can tell the place is small, my back is against one wall, and seeing as you can see the other wall in the picture, that gives you an idea of how semai(narrow) the place is. The door back there leads to the entrance which is an elevator, you could only reach the place via an elevator. But no kidding, the place was one of the rawest places I'd ever been in all of Japan, now granted I'd only been to Hiroshima, Osaka, Tokyo, and Nagoya, but trust me, the place was hot. It was a Hip-Hop club and everyone there was deep into the culture. But to bring a little of the ridiculousness that is Japanese culture into my story, the two black men pictured here, myself and my friend Manny, were the only two black people there. Manny somehow got under the radar, me on the other hand was treated like celebrity up in that place. Mostly because to them I looked like Biggie Smalls(who they know is dead so they didn't think I WAS him, just that I resembled him, which I don't think I do) So I was approached by like everyone in the place, DJ, Bartender, random people it was crazy, but I was def getting drunk so it was all fun. And I've had many experiences like that in the Nagoya clubs. Japan club Nightlife as far as I've seen is very much like our own, save the dance clubs where they para-para and shit like that.

An Introduction If You Will

I'd like to give a big hello and welcome to my little corner in the virtual world. Now I've never thought of myself as a journalist, I still don't. But entertain me for a moment as if I were one. If you want my mushy emotional trash, just go to my Xanga blog and look for IsntThatJustPrime. This... this here is where I let my fingers do the walking on that tiny keyboard all lappies have and indulge you guys with menial, likely boring stuff. Did I say boring? Oh I meant the awesome stuff you don't get anywhere else, and by anywhere else I mean likely everywhere else. But it's my fifteen right?