{"id":598,"date":"2005-07-15T13:41:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-15T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=598"},"modified":"2005-12-10T17:07:10","modified_gmt":"2005-12-10T22:07:10","slug":"one-more-thing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/one-more-thing-2","title":{"rendered":"One more thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

My buddy Tom posted his version of yesterday’s events<\/a> at the Con. I forgot to mention, while we were at the CBLDF booth yesterday, we looked over at the XBox booth next door, which had a number of comics-related games that people could play.<\/p>\n

Charles Brownstein, the CBLDF director, was looking over our shoulders at the booth, agog. He said, “The Hulk is beating a cow to death.”<\/p>\n

We turned around. A youngish kid was playing a Hulk video game and was, in fact, beating a cow to death, smacking it against a cliff, picking up a boulder to throw at it, etc.<\/p>\n

Tom & I were both thankful that we’re not kids nowadays, as we’d never get out of the house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My buddy Tom posted his version of yesterday’s events at the Con. I forgot to mention, while we were at the CBLDF booth yesterday, we looked over at the XBox booth next door, which had a number of comics-related games that people could play. Charles Brownstein, the CBLDF director, was looking over our shoulders at … <\/p>\n

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