this weekend was the world’s largest gun show, the wanenmacher arms show. saturday i went with dad and sunday with jason… it was ginormous, as usual. this year, though, it seemed a bit smaller for some reason. we overheard people saying there weren’t as many people at this one; there was still a ton of crap to see. dad bought some throwing knives and got me an early birthday present: a folding stock. i also got dippin’ dots and some beef jerky that was pretty good

on sunday jason and i arrived at like 3:15 and the thing closed at 4:00!! no one told us, and the only reason we found out is they announced over the intercom that there were 30 minutes left until close. it was very sparse when we first arrived… lots of people had already left and several were in the midst of packing up. so we complained (the primary reason was they sold us a *full-price* $10 dollar ticket like 45 minutes before the thing closed), and they took our names/addresses and said they’d send us free tickets for the next one. so yeah, sunday kinda sucked with regards to the gun show. jason still ended up getting a blowgun. but hey, at least the next one’s free ;-p

friday night i saw doom with keisha, carlos and embry, and some other TU people. i actually saw matt hunt and brad venable as well… hadn’t seen brad in probably 3 or 4 years (he was a prominent figure/big man on campus.. both figuratively and literally, and was there for most of my tenure at TU). i went in with the expectation that the movie would totally suck balls (in the words of the inimitable cartman we all know and love).. and i wasn’t disappointed. *most* movies based on a video game will by definition suck, in my experience. it was at least somewhat entertaining.. basically your run-of-the-mill zombies-and-people-trapped-in-a-space-station movie with guns, gore, and gratuitous special effects. only this one had THE ROCK with his blindingly white shiny movie star teeth. they are seriously freakishly WHITE. it actually reminds me of an article i remember reading awhile back on the onion.

thursday i went with emma/zane and drew/susan to the tulsa corn maize. it was fun.. basically they have a huge cornfield with random paths cut out, and the idea is to go with a group of people and scare the girls they also had a haunted trail with monsters and a dude who ran around chasing people with a chainsaw. at the entrance/exit they had a patch of pumpkins and gourds for sale. and you know the drill.. of course the girls wanted a pumpkin. i think zane got emma a medium-sized one for 10 bucks (you can get the same thing at reasor’s for like 3). i ended up getting some funky shaped gourds that looked pretty cool.. i think i got about 6 or 7 of them for 5 bucks. i may throw up some pics of them at some point. oh, one other thing: the people/person who organizes the corn maize apparently creates a different design every year. this year’s theme was ‘one hundred years of bedlam football’, which you can see an aerial shot of on the web site.

other than that, not too much going on.. i’ve recently been sucked into the TV show lost. kelley and chad (two of the guys i work with) convinced me to start watching it. it’s really a very good show, quite well done. i like the backstories for the various characters, and how they try to explain the attitudes, outlooks, and characteristics of the people through their past experiences. if you haven’t seen it i highly recommend it. the only catch is you absolutely *must* start the show from the beginning: lost isn’t a show you can pick up mid-season and expect to enjoy it, if you haven’t witnessed all of the events leading up to the current episode.