Homestar Runner is back on the map with a new music video "Fisheye Lens." This quirky little flash comic provided infinite entertainment for me and my associates in years past. I was sad when the site finally ground to a halt half-a-decade ago. As promised in an interview this past summer, however, the brothers chaps have vowed to make a comeback. Their quirky first offerings seem like a good start. Where it goes from here, only time will tell, but I'm glad to see them back in the saddle again.
I got my Super Nintendo Entertainment System when I was eleven years old. That's a couple years after it first came out. The occasion was a little dramatic: to celebrate the end of a two-and-a-half year course of treatment for cancer. I had no idea that it would be waiting for me at home after the final doctors visit. It was a nice spring day, the trees were waving gently in the breeze outside the bay windows. With a cup of tea resting on the coffee table, I set down to play. What was that first game? It was The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past . Around twenty years later, my SNES still works as does that Zelda cartridge. It's been a long way from boyhood in Southern Connecticut to manhood in North Houston, but I'm still playing. Why am I still playing? There were stretches when I didn't. Many times, I've just been too busy. There were also seasons when it felt embarrassing to still be playing video games....
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