That's right! I finally got my first red ring. This 360 was purchased back in April of last year... right before Microsoft announced the Elite. It's been shipped out to Texas, and now I've just got to wait my 4-6 weeks. The good news is, I'll be getting a free month of Gold, which I haven't been subscribed to for a while. Woo hoo!

The title of the blog is also indicative of the fact that I'm finally updating this blog with something more than a MM post. After watching the Dtoid panel, I felt inspired to start blogging again, and decided I should finally put up this post. I know that it's been a while, and on the internet 2 hours is equal to 9,000 hours, but not too long ago there was a MEGA NARP in Cincinnati. Shortly before that it was my birthday. I lost my camera at the NARP, freaked out and assumed it had been stolen. As a result of this false assumption, I left early, because I didn't want any more stuff to be taken! Well that turned out to be a big mistake, because if I had asked a few more bartenders, I would've found that they found my camera (I guess it had fallen out of my pocket!), and were keeping it safe.

So, a few weeks back my camera finally got back to me. I've been meaning to put up a post about the pics on the camera, but I fail at not procrastinating. Since this post is so big, I've split it up into two parts. The first part is about my awesomely brutal death-day cake, and the second part is a dump of pics from my camera of the Cinci-NARP.

Part 1:

So first, on May 28th it was my 24th birthday. Since my girlfriend is a baker, she offered to make me any cake I wanted. I told her that I wanted the most brutal, deadly cake EVAR! I wanted a black cake that would bleed.





She decided to go with red for the trim and lettering of the cake, since red is the color of blood, and blood is (in fact) brutal. She got a bucket of both from work and you can check them out above. This icing was then applied to the cake. The strawberry filling is what makes it bleed!




The cake covered in brutal black icing.

Initially, she decided to put a dumpster full of bloody babies with fake barbwire surrounding the cake by using toothpicks and twist ties. We put in the toothpicks, but couldn't find twist ties anywhere.



The weight of the dumpster was also digging into the cake, and it wouldn't stay on the cake, so she had to come up with a plan B. She decided to work with the dug in portion of the cake by filling it with 'blood' and putting the babies in. She also removed the toothpicks, and they left a good reference for where the candles should go.







The cake was DELICIOUS!






Black icing will fuck your teeth up for a few hours.

Finally, next year I'll be getting a big delicious DESTRUCTOID cake. Shit will be so cash!

Part 2:

The majority of what I had to say was said in the post I put up right after the Cinci-NARP. I wanted to get my impressions and thoughts out while they were still fresh in my head. So below I've got some pictures from the event.


The wonderful bar that hosted all us internet and video game nerds




Britini made a tiny new friend named Bridget

Tazar biting into the always delicious pizza sandwich

Blehman is both a gentleman and a scholar.

Puppet has perfect timing.

Jungle Joe was a weird dude.


EPIC GTA IV flyer!



Britini Martini sitting on GTA IV girl's face. HAWT!

bunnyXablaze and PuppetPallMich playing airhockey


IKILLPXLS (aka GuitarAtomik) rocked the house from day to night!


And so did CosbyTron!




The hotel got ready for Destructoid by installing a robotic panel for the elevator.




Who doesn't just LOVE a trip down memory lane? I know I sure don't! Shut up... noone was talking to you!

Finally I just want to say

THANK YOU!

to Joe Burling (BuckF1tches) and Nino (Ninoog3) for making sure that my camera arrived safe and sound! Thank you guys!