I Write: Scrubs & How I Met Your Mother

So as many of you know I devote quite a bit of time to the shows How I Met Your Mother and Scrubs.  I try to write reviews of the weekly episode and they get quite a few visits. I enjoy writing them and have tried to put a lot of thought into it. I break things down and even used to try and recap the whole show in addition but found that it was cutting into my nightly nap times so I cut back, for now at least.  I even started taking the music sections of each show review and putting them on devoted pages for Scrubs Music and How I Met Your Mother Music. Still in progress with the music pages but I’ve got at least all of the current seasons up.

 

I never knew that the review world was such a hard cookie to crack (by the way I’m really Jones’in for some Oreos and talk of cookies only makes it worse). I get quite a few unique visits to the reviews each week but I’m struggling to get discussion started. I’ve tried taking notes from some of my favorite review sites, asked them questions about generating discussion and implemented a lot of their advice. But Now I just have to wait and see if it works out. I get a quite a few comments from friends about the reviews, just more in person and not on the articles. Oh well.

 

So what is my point? I’m not too sure. I love doing what I do on the site, so I have no plans of stopping. Even with Scrubs “potentially” ending the series this year, I’ll probably go back to Season 1 and do reviews too. Anyways. I’ve been meaning to start talking more on this my personal site, so it was a good excuses to talk.

 

Cheers.

Join a Real Band

Real Band

I enjoy punishing myself through fruitless side projects. One that I truly love and thought was going to be far more popular than it turned out was my Rock Band/Guitar Hero parody (real band) site joinarealband.com.

I made it because I am an actual drummer and the game kind of annoyed me at first… let me take that back, the people who loved the game annoyed me. The games are actually quite fun, despite the lag of where actual notes and beat should be played (I’m not alone). But I found it annoying how proud people were to be great at this game when with probably just a little work they could have been good at the real thing.

meet_groupies

 

Despite it’s current un-popularity, it was pretty enjoyable to make.  Especially some of the little subtle comments and graphics. I wanted it to be humorous, but fairly PG rated, which if you know a lot about about the rock star lifestyle isn’t really that easy.  Either way, my parody hero Darren Barefoot inspired the idea with his ever so clever parodies iCryptex and Get a First Life. Now sure this isn’t the only parody of the game in town, possibly just the worst publicized one. Rock band jokes like college humor’s roadie hero,and the accordion hero game made me laugh endlessly in fact. Then my favorite web comic XKDC chimed in on the Rock Band situation and I knew for sure I wasn’t alone.

But honestly, what did I expect… once people start making t-shirts making fun of the situation it usually means the market is flooded.

 

Case in Point:

someecards: Rock Stars