• It's time for a shocking confession. I was a little preoccupied on Monday night, looking for something quick to post for Tuesday that wouldn't require a lot of heavy thought, and the best I came up with was KEYWORD ROULETTE. Having had a few days and finally a few moments to look at the idea, I realized it didn't make a lot of sense, or was in some way incomplete. Somewhere in that rough concept there is a good game, but I think I need to remove some of the random elements and narrow down the focus of it. It's definitely not the next Blog Party, M.C.F.A.T. or Perilous!. It's barely the next M.C.F.A.D., MCF LI, or MCF Might Know. I'm man enough to admit that they can't all be winners, and I'm putting this one down mercifully two days early. I will come up with a great new game or feature this year; this just wasn't it:
• This one is kind of cool. Back in the late ‘80s, Dwayne McDuffie once pitched an idea to Marvel for a team book featuring ”Teenage Negro Ninja Thrashers”. That pitch is hilarious and, as Comics Should Be Good explains, was done in response to the fact that Marvel had not one but two skateboarding black superheroes in prominent roles at the time, Night Thrasher and Rocket Racer. I think it's great that he was able to poke fun at that, although he definitely ran the risk of a joke being picked up and suddenly going from satire to stupid reality. And to be honest, if that book did come out back then at the peak of my addiction, I totally would have been collecting it. McDuffie went on to greater things in animation and his own comics, and it's notable that his most famous African American hero was known to zip around on manhole covers or garbage can lids.
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• Finally, I'll share a stupid joke I heard in a bar this week:
Chelsea Clinton is speaking with a tough-as-nails Marine, and asks him if anything scares him. He replies, “Ma'am, I'm only afraid of three things: Osama,Obama, and Yo Momma.”
It's a brand new year, and I've yet to come up with a new game for the Nexus! I'm in the mood for a new game. Who wants to play?
I'm not sure if this will work, but playing off of variations of classic themes, I present the debut of KEYWORD ROULETTE. Below I will list FIVE sets of somewhat random keywords. Plugged in to Google™, they'll reveal a site of my choosing. The tricky part of course is the thousands upon thousands of results one might find from any five words. To make your lives(and mine) easier, I'll limit my choices to the first three pages of results. At ten results per page, this means for each set you will have a one-in-thirty chance of choosing the same web site I do. Hopefully there won't be too much variation from location to location and we all get roughly the same results.
Obviously, it would be very surprising if anyone matched me five for five. I'll be impressed if anyone gets one. But whoever gets the most matches will earn a fragment of the Mysterious Master Prize™. Yes, there are still about two of those things floating around unclaimed. In the likely event of a tie, all parties with matching highest scores will get a prize.
Post guesses in the comments or post on your blogs, whichever you prefer. I'll reveal the answers in one week. Good luck, and good clicking!
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MCF is a mild-mannered
artist from the suburbs.
His knowledge of obscure
comic book characters
is more powerful than Gladiator
of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard on
an ego-trip. Able to leap topics
in a single sentence faster than
a speeder-bike on the moon of
Endor, MCF has never written
about himself in the third person
and now dreads the day he
utters aloud the fateful phrase,
"MCF is gettin' upset!"
