Nanika atta, blogosphere?

Entry 19

2005-12-26T13:28:00.000-05:00

Well, the night before Christmas I had the most bizarre, restless dream. It started out kind of "A Christmas Carol," and then morphed into pointless take-offs on just about any other Christmas movie or special I ever saw. Later I woke up to a phone call from Dave, who said Jacuzzi Central has gone bankrupt because they'd been sued by Jacuzzi, which I suppose I knew was a company that makes jacuzzis, but I never really thought of the word as trademarked. Well, neither did the PTBs at JC. So now it's over. The show... is over, and I dunno if it'll ever be picked up by anyone else. At the moment we're not really even thinking about it, I think we'll all just look for something else to do with our lives. But we'll still hang out, of course...

Well, I hope everyone's had a nice Christmas. And um... well I guess that's about all I can think to say, for now. Um... Dave should be probably be coming back to Bangor tomorrow, that'll be nice...

Entry 18

2005-12-20T19:51:00.000-05:00

Okay, tonight we did episode Ni ju ichi. And we actually had our first guest ever, beat poet Joe Beats! But that was at the very end of the show, after Momoiro and I talked about all the stuff we'd seen and want to see, and Adult Swim schedule changes (as promised!) and whatever else we talk about...

Not sure what else to say right now, but I could go for a beer... shame Dave ain't around... anyways, he don't get Jacuzzi, so I reckon I'll have to send him a tape of the episode... it's weird doing the show without him producing...

Entry 17

2005-12-06T18:02:00.000-05:00

Hey. I was gonna post here yesterday, but I couldn't get to the site. Well actually I never tried to get to my editing page, cuz I wanted to check my blog itself first, and I couldn't get there, so. Anyway, here now. I was gonna say I'm still not sure when our next show will be, but sometime before Christmas, for sure. And as for Adult Swim's schedule changes, I still have no idea what's up with that, I'm afraid. I also wanted to mention that I gave up on Pokemon Sapphire for now and started a new game of Pokemon Yellow. Been thinking of naming pokemon I catch after characters from Avatar. In fact I have a mankey named Zhao and a geodude named Bumi. And here's the really really really freaky thing. I was just making my way thru Mt. Moon, and something literally impossible happened. It amazed the hell out of me, made me really sit up and take notice, I'm telling you. Un.freaking. believable. Dude, are you sitting down? I was attacked by a wild Gengar! I shit you not my friends! I've never heard of such a thing!

For those of you unfamiliar with the game, let me explain something. There is a ghost-type pokemon called Gastly, which evolves into Haunter. Either of these pokemon you can catch in the wild, or actually in a specific place like Pokemon tower. Now, Haunter evolves into Gengar, but you NEVER FIND A WILD GENGAR. What's more, it is a trade evolution. See, most pokemon evolve when they reach a certain level. Pokemon level up by gaining experience points in battle, or else if you use a Rare Candy on them. But there are a few other ways certain pokemon have to evolve instead of leveling up, and one of those ways is by trading them with another player. So you see, if you don't have a friend to trade with, there is simply no way to ever get a Gengar. It just doesn't happen. And yet, it did. There shouldn't even be any ghosts here in Mt. Moon at all, and out of the blue I'm attacked by a wild pokemon you can't find anywhere, ever? Okay, I know, it's just a silly kids' game, but I am so totally geeking out about this! Btw, I named it Ko, after a spirit from the season finale of Avatar.

Which, I should also say, freakin' rocked. Damn that show is great! Wow. I can hardly wait for Book Two. And btw, if you haven't seen Dave's new banner that has Simon and River from Firefly and Zula and Zuko from Avatar, it's really pretty cool, IMHO. And well, I guess that's about all I can think to say for now...

Entry 16

2005-11-29T21:44:00.000-05:00

I'd lose my head if it wasn't attached! Yeah, it's been awhile since I posted here, not that long, but more to the point, I'm not at the home computer at the moment, so that meant I had to actually sign in! Well I tried bennyiro and benny.iro and neither of them worked, so that worried me. I had to get them to gmail me my account info, and turns out it was benny_iro. honestly, I have no recollection of that. Weird.

Well, I'm here now, and that's what counts, as they say in... y'know... that thing where they say that being here now is what counts. Anyway, so what did I have to say? Dave's away, of course, but Momoiro and i will try to do the show without him for awhile. However, I'm a bit concerned that the PTBs at Jacuzzi told me not to bother updating the website, they can't afford it right now. Which when you consider it's free... scary. More importantly, it means I have to look for a job again, cuz I ain't gettin' paid fer the gig.

Meanwhile, Momoiro and I met an old friend of Dave's, Joe Beats. It's odd that Dave knew him in Ohio, and he knew us in Ohio, but we didn't know Joe. And now all four of us are in Maine. What are the odds?! Anyway, me and Momoiro have been hanging out with him a bit, and no doubt Dave will join us when he gets back here after the holidays. Should be fun. Also, there's a strong possibility that Joe will make a guest appearance on the next episode of the show and share one of his poems with us.

Other things to say: I think after this week Adult Swim's saturday schedule will be changing, I still haven't got the details all straight yet. more on that when I figure it out. Try to do that tomorrow actually, but we'll see. Also, haven't picked up my game of Sapphire in a while, and I was getting bored with it the last few times I did play, mostly cuz that last gym leader kept kickin' my ass. I dunno, maybe I'll pick it up tonight and try again, but maybe I'll give up and move on to something else.

And yeah, um, unless I've forgotten anything, that's all for now. But I'm sure I'm forgetting things. I'm prone to that. I think I caught mad cow from Denny Crane...

Entry 15

2005-11-19T10:56:00.000-05:00

Earlier this week I was starting to work on the episode guide. No link right now since I didn't finish and never had a chance to get back to it. And actually I started thinking it's sort of pointless, so I'm not sure if I'll ever finish or not. I'll let you know.

Meanwhile. Today I found that there's no Mew Mew Power or One Piece on 4kidsTV this morning. Not sure when they'll return. This is really annoying. I should also mention most of Toonami will be taken up tonight by Tim Burton's Batman movie, which I don't expect to watch. But at 9:30 should be Naruto, then IGPX, then Bobobo. Then of course, Fullmetal Alchemist, and the season premiere of Samurai Champloo, and at 12:30 is the season premiere of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. then there's s-CRY-ed, which has like 4 episodes left...

Um... watched a new Avatar last night, which was cool. 2 weeks till the season finale, which will be mega cool. Can't think of anything else right now...

Entry 14

2005-11-12T14:10:00.000-05:00

Y'know, I don't always think to talk to the day care man after leaving a second pokemon with his wife. You really should, so he can tell you if your two pokemon are getting along. I didn't think to do that the first time I left Beautifly with him. But the other day, after Beautifly had learned Silver Wind and I left him with the guy, I did talk to him, and he said my pokemon showed no interest in each other. Which is odd, because they're from the same group. So I tried leaving a couple different Nincada with him, and none of them got along with Beautifly. So finally I thought, maybe he would've said that if I'd bothered to ask the other time, and I got eggs anyway, so I just left and hoped for the best. And then some time later I returned, and there was an egg. It's so weird, because if he says your pokemon show no interest in each other, they're not bloody well supposed to produce an egg. But whatever. Today my egg hatched, and lo and behold, Nincada (who I named Naruto) knew Silver Wind! Huzzah! Of course it'll be awhile before I do any battle with him, but I've got him holding exp. share so he can level up safely and quickly. Right now I'm in Sootopolis, I just beat Kyogre, and now I'm going to do some last minute training against the gym trainers before facing gym leader Wallace.

In other news, y'know I been watching Viewtiful Joe the last couple Saturdays on WB, and I've been meaning to say that Joe's sidekick totally reminds me of Shippo, from InuYasha. And um, aside from that... I guess I can't think of anything else to say right now. So, sayonara...

Entry 13

2005-11-09T19:17:00.000-05:00

Welp, did a new episode of Nanika atta, America?! today, that was fun. At the very end of the episode a question came to me: if they made a movie of our show, who would play me and Momoiro? And Dave, of course. But most importantly, who would play me? My first thought is Seth Green. My second thought is not Elijah Wood. I dunno, this bears some more thinking about. Maybe Dante Basco. I'd be very interested to hear other people's thoughts on the matter. About any of the three of us. Especially me. But Momoiro's important too. And Dave's not unimportant... Heh. So what are you thoughts? Anyone? post a reply here or else email me. Or post in the show's viewer forum, cuz there ain't enough talk in there, dammit. Especially not enough positive talk.

Meanwhile, I spent the whole morning playing Pokemon. I did actually rename Easter to Rapa Nui. And I got a Spoink who I named Spanky, though I'm not sure if that was today. The days sort of blend together, y'know? And a Carvanha named Amazon. I got an Electrike named Zeus, but I'm pretty sure that musta been yesterday. I'm not using it though, ended up not having room in my party. Also got a Skarmory named Kaiba, but I had to put him in storage, too. Oh, and I've gotten a couple eggs since putting Beautifly in the day care, but none of the hatchlings knew Silver Wind, dammit. So I thought maybe daddy should already know the move, not just be capable of learning it. so I took out Beautifly and now I'm raising his level myself until he learns it, then I'll put him back in there and try for yet another egg.

And I guess that's all I can think to say for now, except y'all remember to watch Veronica Mars tonight, ya hear?

Entry 12

2005-11-08T16:51:00.000-05:00

Well, haven't worked on the JC site for a bit, I think it's pretty much all done until I can think of some more shows or invent some people to work at the network. Meanwhile, Arrested Development is back, which is good but I really wish they'd only play one ep a night. Been spending alot of time on Pokemon Sapphire, more than I expected to. I'm actually really getting into it. I have a Breloom named Cappy, a Sableye named Violet, and today I caught a Skitty who I named Momoiro. ;) Them things is rare, there's one spot you can catch them but they don't show up often, or else there's someone you could trade a Pikachu to in exchange for a Skitty, but I don't like trades really, cuz you can't nickname them or anything. Plus it's not like Pikachu's so easy to get, you have to go to the damn Safari Zone... So anyway, I spent alot of time running from all the common pokemon that kept showing up, waiting for a Skitty. And when one finally showed up, I went to use stun spore on it, but too late I remembered I'd recently replaced the move with mach punch! So down went the Skitty, dammit. I really need to look at things instead of just hitting buttons automatically. But I'm not even sure if it was male or female, and of course I wanted a female. The next one that eventually showed up was male, so I didn't bother with it. But after a long time, finally another one showed up, this time female, and I caught it. Later I also got a Nosepass, which for lack of a more inventive idea I called Easter. cuz, y'know, them things look like the Easter Island statues, sort of. I was thinking I might call it Rapa Nui, but I dunno. I can always go to the name rater if I want to change its name, but I'm just not sure what to do, not even sure if I'll keep the pokemon. Also I was trying to breed a Nincada that knew Silver Wind, which it can only learn as an egg move. I thought that meant if I bred a Nincada, it would learn egg moves... in the egg, and know them when it hatched. But apparently I have to breed a Nincada with some other bug pokemon who can learn the move I want. Honestly, it's all so complicated! One thing I did read in Dave's guide is that you can't interbreed a pokemon with one of its parents. It's nice to know there's no incest in the pokemon world. Other than that, I didn't really understand what it was saying about egg moves till I got online and checked out gamefaqs... Welp, not sure what else to say right now except the game might be even more fun if I knocked back a few Sapporos while playing, but that probably won't happen anytime soon.

Oh yeah, also wanted to mention that I voted "no" on question one at the polls today. No, I do not want to reject a law that would protect people against discrimination, dammit. And I'm offended that you would even ask. Do I look like friggin' Joe McCarthy or somebody?

Entry 11

2005-11-07T17:48:00.000-05:00

What to say? Borrowed Dave's Pokemon Sapphire game the other day. He's bored of it for now. Maybe I can have a wee bit of fun with it in my boreder moments. Hmmm. New episode of Sadie yesterday, and also Life with Derek. And of course King of the Hill, and Simpsons Treehouse of Horror (the intro and the third story were good), Family Guy rocked, American Dad, meh, Desperate Housewives was good, totally enjoyed The Boondocks, Minoriteam sucked ass, Squidbillies worst ep yet probably, 12 oz Mouse was interesting because they played it twice, but the second time they cut bits out so that toward the end Skillet had this long, kick-ass drum solo that wasn't in the ep the first time. Or at least wasn't as long.

And that's about all I can think to say for now, kids...

Entry 10

2005-11-05T18:21:00.000-05:00

Well, happy Guy Fawkes Day/Bonfire Night. Um... so yesterday and today I was trying to work out some sort of menu for the links I have in the top frame of the JC site, like javascript or dhtml or whatever. But I haven't got the knack. I tried taking some script I found to use, but I couldn't get it to work quite right, and anyway there's so much code, I don't like it. I want to learn to write this stuff myself, but that'd take about a million years. I haven't the patience. So I've just got links there right now. I even thought of just making simple buttons, which is fine, except that when you click "Home," I want it to reload both of the lower frames, and I could only get it to do one with a button. With my text link, it does both. Btw, there are currently four links up, "Home", "Schedule", "Shows" and "Staff." "Shows" has one link of its own, to Nanika atta America, and Staff has 3 links, to a bio for me, Momoiro, and Dave. I wonder if y'all would be so kind as to let me know if you think I should keep it as it is, with the bios loading in the left frame, or if I should just get rid of that frame altogether and let the bios load in the main bottom frame? Of course, even if you think the left frame is too narrow, you can always drag it to the right, widen it to whatever length you want, but I'd understand if you'd rather not have to do that. Personally I'm just not sure what I want. I don't mind the bios being narrow. I was also thinking that'd be a good frame to put ads in. Or some other kind of content, like random quotes or whatever else I can think of.

Enough shop talk for now. Enjoyed the premiere of Viewtiful Joe this morning, though it didn't seem like a pilot. I look forward to seeing more eps, though. Avatar was cool last night, as always. Um... new Xiaolin Showdown, Mew Mew Power, Pokemon, One Piece... Not sure what else to say, but of course there's a full lineup tonight, including the series premiere of IGPX, so that should kick some ass. I'm hoping. Well, that's all for now, I guess...

Entry 9

2005-11-03T11:07:00.000-05:00

Hey, guess what, kids? I have found me new job! Okay, it don't pay that much, but combined with the stipend I get for co-hosting the show, it should be enough to get by. Yes, Jacuzzi Central will now be paying me another stipend... as webmaster for their new website! Yeah, hard to believe they never had one yet. But what isn't hard to believe is that they're not shelling out any dough for a domain. So it'll be hosted for free on GeoCities. Kinda weak, totally unprofessional, but whatev. Well, I started building the thing yesterday, and put a link to it here on my blog, over at left. There's a hell of a lot of work to do on the thing yet. But I'm hoping it'll turn out real good when it's finished, and who knows? Maybe some other company will recognize my mad webdesign skillz and offer me a job workin' on a site for them. Hope springs eternal. Even when heading toward Winter.

Entry 8

2005-11-02T11:45:00.000-05:00

What did I do for Halloween? Nothing. Said I might go out walking, and I considered it. But instead, after Prison Break I sat around channel surfing and eating candy until finally I got tired of being bored, and went to bed. No, the candy didn't keep me up. And I didn't even have anything to drink, either. Boring night. Even Dave had a more interesting night, and he just sat around watching a couple DVDs. Which you'll know if you read his holiday journal. But then he writes alot of boring stuff in there. Although he did mention that Maurice LaMarche sounds alot like Vincent Price, which was a totally random thing to say. He says alot of totally random things. But this, I feel, is a very important point upon which everyone in the world must come to agree. Maurice LaMarche does sound an awful lot like Vincent Price. Anyway... I haven't posted in a couple days or whatever, so I just thought I should stop in here and say something, so no one says to themselves, "Hey, I wonder if Benny went out walking on Halloween night, and got himself killed because there's even more psychos than usual out that night, and that's why he hasn't posted in his blog?" Rest easy, friends, I haven't gotten myself killed quite yet. It would've made for a more interesting post here if I had, and I swear I would've found some way to post it even if I was dead. But I'm not.

Anyway... I feel there's some other stuff I should mention. For one, folks who watch my show will perhaps be aware that I have a job as a bike messenger. Now, I don't know if such a job actually exists in this town, but if you've read my very first entry in this blog, you'll know why it doesn't really matter one way or the other. But forget that for now. The point is, it's not a job I'm willing to keep doing once the snow starts falling. And we all know my little show ain't gonna pay the bills, so I'll soon be needing a new source of income. I said before I don't think anyone's going to pay me for doing this blog, but remember- there's absolutely no chance of my getting any corporate sponsors unless it becomes clear that I've got alot of readers, here. Which I probably don't. But if I've got any at all, please tell a few thousand of your closest friends to read my blog on a regular basis, so maybe I can make some money on it. Otherwise I'm going to have to find a real job. Which would really annoy Dave, since he still can't find a job of his own, so it'd suck for him to see me get two jobs in the same time it takes him to find none. You know that old Stuart Smalley Daily Affirmations thing? "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me." Dave has long been saying "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, two out of three ain't bad." I feel ya, bro. Keep wishin' you a bit o' success, chief, but... that won't stop me from lookin' out for my own interests, when need be...

Welp, last night watched Bones for the first time since the pilot, since Gilmore Girls was a rerun. That was fun. Then House, since Supernatural was a rerun. Enjoyed dat. Then Close to Home, always a pleasure... Then, uh, Futurama, then soon after that I think bed. See, this is the kind of stuff Dave posts in his blog. What he watched on TV. I do that too. Because we both have our priorities straight: TV is just about the most important thing on Earth. Yeah, I enjoy that song "Television, the drug of a nation." But that don't mean I'm gonna quit the habit. I like my drug, dammit.

Entry 7

2005-10-31T19:12:00.000-05:00

Well, I'm not really worried now about having missed Yu-Gi-Oh GX on Friday, since today was a rerun, the second part of a story so probably the first part was on Friday. I'm guessing. Maybe. And later I watched Code Lyoko... wow was it cool! And scary...

Entry 6

2005-10-31T11:21:00.000-05:00

Harowiin omedetou! Well, watched me some Adult Swim last night, of course. Lucy, daughter of the devil, well it had some familiar voices it's always nice to hear. And I guess it was okay, but you know... too damn short. The end, I just... it surprised me that it ended so suddenly, it didn't seem like an ending to me at all. And it seems like it should be part of a series. I mean I wouldn't mind it ending this way if there's more eps, but I'm not aware of anything, I thought it was supposed to be a one-shot. I dunno, maybe it was okay anyway, but I'd like to see some more. Next week they mentioned some other thing that also seems like a one-shot, called Minoriteam. I suppose I have to check it out, but I ain't expecting much. What I'm really looking forward to next week is the long-awaited premiere of the Boondocks. Well, also last night there was Squidbillies, which I'm still not managing to care much about. And 12 oz Mouse, which... I'm actually starting to think there could be some sort of coherent plot threading its way throughout the episodes. I think it'll be kind of cool if that turns out to be the case, but so far my money's on it being completely random on every level. I hope I'm wrong, though. Not that I don't love the random...

Welp, no particular plans for today. I suppose I'll watch Prison Break at 9. At 10 History Channel has some "Russian Roswell" thing, I dunno. Dave says he wants to check it out on behalf of one of his countless alter-egos, Captain Grey. But he ain't sure he's gonna do that tonight. But gosh, what are the odds of History Channel never airing it again? I dunno, I know he's still haunted by never having seen any reruns of some damn thing about the Anasazi that he missed years ago... Anyway, so um... yeah, other than Prison Break, no idea what I'll be doing. Maybe nothing. Sigh. Maybe just go out walking... that could be kowai...

Entry 5

2005-10-30T10:12:00.000-05:00

Okay, I just changed my settings so that posting comments requires word verification. Hopefully that'll help prevent spam, but it may not. if I get more spam, I may start requiring people to be members to post, I dunno... in that case, if you wanted to post comments, you'd have to email me and ask to be a member, I guess. I'm not sure how that works...

Anyway. Yesterday, good day for TV. Didn't pay that much attention to Duel Masters, I'm afraid. But later there was Teen Titans. Nice to see an ep that didn't involve the Brotherhood of Evil or whatever the heck they're called. Then Zatch Bell, Naruto... that tracker that killed the guy seemed like a girl to me, but they kept calling him a boy, so I dunno. Later there was Bobobo-bo Bo-Bobo, which was weird as always. Then of course InuYasha... very sad about Kikyo. Then Fullmetal Alchemist, Kakurenbo, Samurai Champloo, s-CRY-ed... nice to see some characters actually talking for a change... and then, finally, time for bed. Ah, nice long night of anime... but sleep is always good, too...

Anyway. Happy Devil's Night...

Entry 4

2005-10-29T12:49:00.000-04:00

Made a few changes today. Yesterday I put a link to the show under my profile at the left, but I didn't really like that it sort of... I dunno, I guess like didn't seem prominent enough to me, or whatever. Today I put up a few more links, to Dave's blog, bboard, and homepage, and at the top of the list I put the heading "Links" in bold. I'm so clever! Also today added a footer at the bottom of the page, about my avatar. Also edited my posts with headings in bold that have the post number, which I'll be doing from now on. Well, at first I thought I'd just do this within the posts, but then while poking around in settings, I found I could turn on a title option. That'll make it even easier in the future. This makes me happy. Although what doesn't make me happy is that I've noticed some spam commenting. The first one I replied to, just cuz it was the first comment ever in my blog. The second one I deleted. I don't want to keep doing that forever. I looked around for any info on stopping spam, but it looks like that's the sort of thing the site tries to do itself, and I don't see anything for me to do about it. So if it ain't working, I guess it just ain't working. Sigh.

Anyway, so far today I have watched Magical DoReMi while taping Yu-Gi-Oh, then watched Mew Mew Power, then my tape of Yu-Gi-Oh, gosh what fun. Later watched Pokemon, and Loonatics Unleashed, and Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go! I can't believe I never saw last season's finale, I must try to catch that sometime. But at least I've seen the new season premiere, which was nice. And then One Piece. They really do tend to stay in one place too long, it gets old after a while. But of course, sooner or later they always finally leave. I hope they leave soon, cuz I'm getting tired of the current arc... And I guess that's it so far. I still have some stuff to watch on tape, I should try to get to that this afternoon if I can...

Yes, my life is ever so dull. But simultaneously totally exciting and cool! N'est-ce pas?

Entry 3

2005-10-28T23:39:00.000-04:00

I just checked TV.com and apparently I've only missed one episode of Yu Yu Hakusho, last Saturday was the one right after the last one they aired back in like January. So I guess I'm not so far behind, I might as well go ahead and start watching from tomorrow's ep... Okay, seriously, I gotta go to bed now. G'nite...

Entry 2

2005-10-28T22:51:00.000-04:00

Btw, I chose this template for my blog cuz it kinda reminds me a little of ICv2. Which I really need to read more often.

Anyway, after nearly 2 months, we finally did a new episode (Ju kyu) of the show. Y'know, me and Momoiro-san talking about like TV and movies and junk like that. Stuff we've seen, stuff we look forward to seeing. There's a bit of other stuff in there, but not much. I don't really think it was a very good episode, and it turns out our producer fell asleep! Weird, man. But hey, it's a good way for folks to keep informed about what's coming up, at least. Yessir, we tell y'all what we want to see, and that way you know what you should want to see. Glad to be of service, folks.

Oh yeah, also wanted to say, this afternoon I was working on stuff online, mostly setting up this blog, trying to figure out the look of it, and all. I wanna get my profile off the main page here, not sure if I can do that or not. I just want my picture and a link to my profile, dammit. Anyway, near 10 minutes after 5 I realized I was missing Yu-Gi-Oh GX, but I thought, meh, I'll catch the rerun at 10:30, just let it slide... Come 10:30, I realized they don't do that on Friday. Maybe they do it some other time I can check out, I should look into that... Okay, looked into it. Um... it isn't on at 10:30 again till Tuesday, looks like. And it isn't till Thursday that they reair the ep I saw yesterday, so maybe it's the Monday or Tuesday after that they'll air today's ep. After I've watched a week of newer eps. Whatev, no big. I'm not that into the show anyway.

Although in looking for it just now, I noticed that Yu Yu Hakusho is on Saturday morning at 5:30. I wonder how long they've been doing that? Cuz I haven't seen that show since Toonami stopped showing it several months back... I really wish Cartoon Network would alert me to these things. But who am I? I'm nobody. Sigh. I suppose I should set a tape for it anyway, though I'm not sure if it's an ep I've seen, or if it's one that'd be new to me... maybe one that comes a fair ways past what I've seen, in which case I'd sort of rather not start watching again. I bloody well want to pick up where I left off, dammit!

Anyway, I also need to set the tape to record the regular old Yu-Gi-Oh on the WB at 8am, at which time I should also be getting up to watch Magical DoReMi on Fox. Yes, I know it's an anime for little girls. No, I don't care. I'm not that into it, but it's still kinda cute, and it's nice to wake up to it and easy my brain into a state of... awakeness... and get ready for a big day of watching cartoons and anime. Also it's a nice little lead-in for Mew Mew Power, which I am into, okay? So shut up. Jeez, a person can't even be allowed a few small pleasures in life without... you know... the voices in his head pretending to be the people who could theoretically be reading his blog and complaining about... um... You know, it's really time for me to go to bed now. Oyasumi!

Entry 1

2005-10-28T16:41:00.000-04:00

Yo, what up, kids? First off, let me lay a couple uber-important dates on you.

June 11, 1981: Yours truly, Benny Iro, was born.
April 19, 2005: My cable access talk show, "Ohayou Ohio!" made its debut.
July 19, 2005: The show aired for the first time nationally on Jacuzzi Central, with the new title "Nanika atta, America?!"
September 2, 2005: I announced my intention to become a professional blogger.
October 28, 2005: I finally started my damn blog! Will anyone ever pay me to do it? Only time will tell. But if you do any betting on the subject, I seriously advise you to put your money on "No."

Now, if you've read my profile here, you'll already be aware of this quasi-open (or one might say "ajar") secret: I don't exist, and neither do my show, or the network it ostensibly airs on. It's all just an online comic about a show that doesn't really exist. Except in the comic. Created by a guy named Dave, who was, in case you care, born September 21, 1975. But this is the last time I expect to ever make overt reference to the fact of my own nonexistence. I've occasionally made somewhat veiled references to this fact in the comic, but don't expect anyone to ever declare it openly. And while I can't say for an absolutely certainty that I'll never mention it again here in my blog... I can at least promise to try not to do so, and definitely make sure it happens very rarely, if ever.

Well, I'm not sure what else to say here in my first entry, but it's almost Halloween. That should be fun. Except for poor Dave, who has no money.... Shame about me and my co-host Momoiro-san not really existing, or else we'd surely try to do something with him... But anyway, I hope you all have a good time. Watch out for razor blades in your apples. (I know, like me, razor blades in apples don't really exist.) And more importantly, look out for people giving away apples, unless they're candy- or caramel-coated. Or floating in a bobbing basin. Or on a string running from the ceiling to the floor or something, they did that once at a school Halloween party when I was a kid, that was weird... Or if the apples come in cider form, that's cool. Especially hard cider... But anyway, you know... plain apples without even a game involved? Weak!

A'ight, I guess that's it for now, I'm out. Sayonara, minna...