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[dc]T[/dc]he Friday Six: Daft Punk, Arrested Development season four, wedding invitations, Red Wings, The Idler, retro video games.

And seven is RIGHT OUT

[ ] Daft Punk’s Touch from Random Access Memories takes on a whole other level of awesome after I learned singer Paul Williams was the voice of The Penguin on Batman: The Animated Series. He also wrote Rainbow Connection for The Muppet Movie (the original from 1979). I knew the voice sounded familiar, and now when I listen to Touch, I can’t help but imagine The Penguin singing.

[ ] I’m only about seven episodes into the new Arrested Development season on Netflix, and I think it is great. Sure, there are weaker moments here and there, but the original seasons had those too. The writing is as tight as ever, with running gags continuing from the first season and on. I regret not going through the first three seasons again before starting though.

[ ] If you told 2005 me after buying a WACOM tablet, that in 2013 I would use it to color an illustration for my wedding invitations, I woulda said, “So Natalie Portman eventually settles?”

No, sorry 2005 me, she doesn’t. But fear not. I did draw our wedding invitations, and 20 hours of work later they are nearly done.

THINK OF THE MONEY I SAVED D:

::cries::

[ ] The Detroit Red Wings were knocked out of the Stanley Cup Playoffs by the Chicago Blackhawks. A bummer for sure, but when you blow a 3-1 series lead like the Red Wings did, my sympathy only goes so far. No worries though, I can still cheer for the Chubby Wounded Squirrels. Go Chubbs!

[ ] The Idler, a group blog I wrote for, is coming to an end at the beginning of June. I enjoyed writing for The Idler, when I had the time or ideas, and I’ll miss it—I met a great group of folks through it, especially via the Gamers’ Club series. I loved The Idler‘s mission statement: “Refusing to apologize for the things we enjoy,” and it is something I take to heart (and apply here as well).

Thanks to Gavin Craig for first approaching me to join the crew. He ran a tight ship, and will forget more about Batman and video games than I will ever know.

[ ] I found a relic of my gaming youth in the Mac App Store recently. It is a vertical scrolling plane-shooter from 1994, Raptor: Call of the Shadows. I can’t tell you how many hours I spent playing the shareware version of it as a teenager. The best part is, our old PC didn’t exactly have the ideal system requirements, so Raptor always ran a bit slow. Playing it full speed on my Mac Book Pro makes it an entirely different game—but still a lot of fun. Well worth the 99 cents.

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