Last night I took a plane flight. A very LONG plane flight. The kind of plane flight where you run out of things to do regardless of how much time was spent planning ahead to avoid RUNNING OUT OF THINGS TO DO. My Boredom Alleviation Kit included: The new issue of EGM that I'd purposefully held out on reading because I wanted to save it for the flight , Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, six episodes of The Office on my laptop, yesterday's new crop of comic books, and to top it all off, I was looking forward to a kiss from the pretty little lady picking me up from the airport (and no, that's not code for anything. I really did have a pretty little lady picking me up from the airport). Yep, folks. I had this thing in the bag. And then, disaster struck.
The plane was stuck on the runway for what seemed like an entire presidential term, so by the time we actually took off, the EGM was just a fading memory. The idiot side of my brain that controls my responsibility level forgot to charge my PSP battery so I spent a painfully short 7 minutes with Snake and Co. Fortunately, my laptop was fully charged, so Michael and Dwight and Jim were able to keep me entertained for a few hours, and this week's comics ROCKED( John Woo's Seven Brothers just keeps getting better and better). However, after all those distractions, I was still left with 3 hours to kill, and since I don't have many extra brain cells sitting around waiting to be wasted--which meant watching the Ashton Kutcher instant comedy classic The Guardian was out of the question--I sat back and thought. I'll spare you the detailed travelogue of my little tr衵cher au cerveau de Blair, mainly because most of it was disappointingly uninteresting and completely devoid of any sign of intelligence. But I will share this with you: I thought a bit about flying, and that got me thinking about games that involve flying. And that got me thinking about my FAVORITE flying game...
That's it. That's all I've got for you. I just really, really wanted
to tell you about my complete and wholehearted love for Kid Icarus. If
I wasn't in such desperate need of attention I probably could have made
the story shorter, or possibly even eliminated it altogether. But I
wasn't hugged enough as a kid, and I'm carryin' my baggage around with
me as an adult. Sorry.
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