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I don't consider myself a charitable person. I give like £3 a month to the NSPCC and that's about it. When I'm earning more I'll raise it or maybe adopt a second charity to champion, but for now that's all I'm giving. If you're my friend and you need help I will do whatever I can, but if you are some dude in the street with a clipboard I don't care how noble your cause is, I am not interested.
Having said that, this is the season of goodwill and many of you are computer savvy gamer types and probably already familiar with Penny Arcade's charity Child's Play, which provides Children's hospitals with toys and games and other pretty cool things that I wish I had. You're probably also familiar with Nedroid Comics, one of the best webcomics around. In his most recent post, Mr Nedroid appealed for donations of toys and things for that hospital he spent a lot of time at as a child, Riley's Children's Hopsital in Indianapolis. Their amazon wishlist is here. I tried to get them some Play-Doh but I am in England and they are in America and Amazon.com is not as coold as .co.uk and doesn't like my card. Instead I bought colouring books about dragons and fish and things for Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool, since that's the only British one connected with the Child's Play Charity. Their wish list is here. Maybe if you guys are feeling particularly charitable you could get some play doh for Riley's Children's Hospital and make Me, Nedroid* and some children happy? I'm not going to say don't donate directly to Child's Play, because that would still be a pretty awesome thing for you to do, but knowing that pretty soon some kids are going to be colouring in pictures of unicorns that I bought them is a better than the vague sense of wellbeing I get from a paypal donation.
In a couple of months when I'm able to again I'll be prodding you all and asking you to give away some of your precious precious blood, but like I said I dont do charity much and thus feel a little hypocritical asking you to give money, so there won't be more appeals like this until around this time next year probably. This journal will remain as self-centred as ever.
*Except, don't tell Nedroid. He might be one of those tortured artist types and only make comics if he is miserable. I like his comics more than I like his happiness (I did warn you right at the start of this post that I am not charitable.)
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I am back in Norwich, Christmas over. Mine was pretty good. Same as always: Aunt and Gran came to stay so I was moved into share with my brother. Usual gathering of people around 11 to all open presents together. Vast array of delicious food on Christmas Day, and the same again on Boxing Day but with my mum's meatloaf as well, one of the best things ever. Same as always, except I spent the last two years in Norwich so it was nice to have these traditions again. It always annoyed me that I'd come home for Christmas but I wouldn't get my room to stay in, so I'd feel like I didn't have my own private space and stuff and everyone had somewhere to play with their new toys and listen to their new CDs and I'd be stuck storing most of mine out of the way until after Christmas, but this year it was just nice to see everyone again. Since I'm projection and full time and all that jazz, I won't be booking time off next Christmas. Two in a row just seems greedy. So it'll be two years until I get to do this again. I think next year I might try to get New Year's Day off. I suspect I'll be working it this year, and I've opened for the last two, so it would be really super awesome if one year I actually got to celebrate without worrying how I'll feel the next day.
I got like a billion DVDs, including Choke, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and the Die Hard Quadrilogy. This is how will be spending my evenings this week. I also have a fair amount of gift voucherness for HMV and Amazon, which will likely become more DVDs, though somewhere in that Assassin's Creed II is a must.
At 17:00 tomorrow I hope to watch Sherlock Holmes. This will be the one hundred and sixth film I've seen at the cinema this year, and the final film I shall watch there this decade. It is a momentious occasion and if you can tell me the correct way to spell momentious - or at the very least confirm for me that it is a real work and I have not imagined it - you are invited. I know many of you have work and this is a bad time for you, but unfortunately I also have work and this is a good time for me. If you can't make it, maybe we could do hangouts at a pub later that evening?
How were your Christmases? Tell me stories.
Edit: Guys, I have a list in my head of films that are going to be really fucking awesome. This list is the reason I will never be able to quit my job at the cinema. Inception, the new Christopher Nolan film, has just been added to the list.
Having said that, this is the season of goodwill and many of you are computer savvy gamer types and probably already familiar with Penny Arcade's charity Child's Play, which provides Children's hospitals with toys and games and other pretty cool things that I wish I had. You're probably also familiar with Nedroid Comics, one of the best webcomics around. In his most recent post, Mr Nedroid appealed for donations of toys and things for that hospital he spent a lot of time at as a child, Riley's Children's Hopsital in Indianapolis. Their amazon wishlist is here. I tried to get them some Play-Doh but I am in England and they are in America and Amazon.com is not as coold as .co.uk and doesn't like my card. Instead I bought colouring books about dragons and fish and things for Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool, since that's the only British one connected with the Child's Play Charity. Their wish list is here. Maybe if you guys are feeling particularly charitable you could get some play doh for Riley's Children's Hospital and make Me, Nedroid* and some children happy? I'm not going to say don't donate directly to Child's Play, because that would still be a pretty awesome thing for you to do, but knowing that pretty soon some kids are going to be colouring in pictures of unicorns that I bought them is a better than the vague sense of wellbeing I get from a paypal donation.
In a couple of months when I'm able to again I'll be prodding you all and asking you to give away some of your precious precious blood, but like I said I dont do charity much and thus feel a little hypocritical asking you to give money, so there won't be more appeals like this until around this time next year probably. This journal will remain as self-centred as ever.
*Except, don't tell Nedroid. He might be one of those tortured artist types and only make comics if he is miserable. I like his comics more than I like his happiness (I did warn you right at the start of this post that I am not charitable.)
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I am back in Norwich, Christmas over. Mine was pretty good. Same as always: Aunt and Gran came to stay so I was moved into share with my brother. Usual gathering of people around 11 to all open presents together. Vast array of delicious food on Christmas Day, and the same again on Boxing Day but with my mum's meatloaf as well, one of the best things ever. Same as always, except I spent the last two years in Norwich so it was nice to have these traditions again. It always annoyed me that I'd come home for Christmas but I wouldn't get my room to stay in, so I'd feel like I didn't have my own private space and stuff and everyone had somewhere to play with their new toys and listen to their new CDs and I'd be stuck storing most of mine out of the way until after Christmas, but this year it was just nice to see everyone again. Since I'm projection and full time and all that jazz, I won't be booking time off next Christmas. Two in a row just seems greedy. So it'll be two years until I get to do this again. I think next year I might try to get New Year's Day off. I suspect I'll be working it this year, and I've opened for the last two, so it would be really super awesome if one year I actually got to celebrate without worrying how I'll feel the next day.
I got like a billion DVDs, including Choke, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and the Die Hard Quadrilogy. This is how will be spending my evenings this week. I also have a fair amount of gift voucherness for HMV and Amazon, which will likely become more DVDs, though somewhere in that Assassin's Creed II is a must.
At 17:00 tomorrow I hope to watch Sherlock Holmes. This will be the one hundred and sixth film I've seen at the cinema this year, and the final film I shall watch there this decade. It is a momentious occasion and if you can tell me the correct way to spell momentious - or at the very least confirm for me that it is a real work and I have not imagined it - you are invited. I know many of you have work and this is a bad time for you, but unfortunately I also have work and this is a good time for me. If you can't make it, maybe we could do hangouts at a pub later that evening?
How were your Christmases? Tell me stories.
Edit: Guys, I have a list in my head of films that are going to be really fucking awesome. This list is the reason I will never be able to quit my job at the cinema. Inception, the new Christopher Nolan film, has just been added to the list.