I HATE STREET SWEEPING. I swear it’s one of the ways the beaureacrats keep the community in their houses so they don’t cause trouble. Or a way to keep the streets clean. Either way, I’m stuck here so I’ll recap some exciting things that happened last week like y’all think it’s exciting too.

COOKING MAMA

You are looking at the new proud owner of Cooking Mama for the Nintendo DS. Not a new game you say, but very hard to find in English (apparently the language that only people who want to play games like Gears of War speak).

“Cooking Mama (クッキング ママ) is a video game for the Nintendo DS developed by Office Create and published by Taito in Japan and Majesco in North America. It was awarded IGN’s Best Of E3 Award for 2006.

The player learns how to cook various meals using the Nintendo DS’s touch screen to interact with the ingredients. This gameplay structure, with the player completing a series of short mini-games, is similar to the WarioWare series. Following the instructions of the titular “Mama”, the player uses the stylus to chop vegetables, slice meat, flip food in pans and arrange the final items on the plate. The game features 76 dishes to complete” – From Wiki

It’s pretty damn fun, I gotta say, except every once and a while a mystery ingredient needs to be added to the recipe and it always looks like poo. The Japanese will eat anything.



NEW(ISH) PODCASTS


Perhaps they have always been available (I’ve only seen them for purchase), but This American Life started giving away episodes on iTunes here (there are two right now). One might be a Veteran’s Day special as it’s focuses on the statistics that have been reported on the body count in Iraq (very dark) and the other one is about raising kids (zzz) with a David Sedaris reading at the end.

And for those who are Bikerfox fans (I don’t really have the will to explain him, you’ll just have to see for yourself), his video podcast is also available for free too here.

LIVE ACTION FAMILY GUY

Last Saturday’s MadTv had a live action sketch of Family Guy with Seth McFarlene. He really does sound like Brian.