Two frickin' awesome videos

The first one I watched tonight is a World of Warcraft how-to regarding Brewfest. I say even if you don't play WoW, have never played WoW, have never played an MMO in your life, you might enjoy it. WoW fans ... you will most definitely enjoy it. I enjoyed it so much I already watched it twice, just to enjoy the sheer artistic value of it! I plan on watching it again too!

The second one is a Duran Duran song I'd never heard before, and just when I thought I'd already heard their best ... along comes one of my fellow Blippers with this song. And can I just say it is Simon Le Bon-riffic? *squee*

Musings on the Fantasy Genre

It's only been recently that I got into fantasy-themed entertainment. Before I started playing World of Warcraft I really didn't care for it all that much, truth be known. I think maybe for a brief period of time when I still lived at home as a child, when most little girls begin to understand what it means to be a princess and all that goes with an 8-year-old's understanding of it, but other than that I don't recall having much interest in Dungeons & Dragons or anything related to that. In fact, I rather abhorred the whole scene; it just didn't interest me. I liked the people who were into it well enough; I had things in common with them. It's just that when they started talking D&D I tuned out and we went our separate ways, metaphorically speaking.

Fast-forward about a decade and a half and the man who is now my husband introduces me to the magical World of Warcraft. Cool!!! Yes, now this I can get into. In fact, I lost myself so deeply to it that it caused me to take a closer look at the D&D world - I still have never actually played D&D (although I would very much like to) - and all it's offshoots. I did dabble a bit in Magic: The Gathering and totally fell in love with it, although the World of Warcraft TCG (Trading Card Game) is far superior. Still, Magic is the granddaddy of TCG and as such deserves much more than an honorable mention.

Then came the movies. See, I think I always liked the movies - Willow, Princess Bride - but I was too narrow-minded to extend it out to the much richer world of role-playing games. It was always right there for me, I just never took a shining to it.

I am so glad I allowed my horizons to expand. When the going gets rough and life seems full of burdens at every turn, I can slip into a daydream-world where everything is perfect, I am surrounded by nature, and I can shoot fireballs out of my fingertips.

Win a trip to BlizzCon '09!

Only 6 days left before Mountain Dew starts handing out the prizes in their World of Warcraft promotion where you can win a trip for two to BlizzCon '09! From logging in every day and spending less than 3 minutes on the promo website I have already earned 1,650 tokens - each token is an entry to win any of the prizes they're offering!

And when the drawings begin May 29 they draw a winner every 15 minutes!!!

So how do you sign up? Easy! Just click on the link below and start racking up your chances to WIN!!!


As if that weren't enough the good folks at Mountain Dew are catering to my novelty addiction: they are unleashing two new Mountain Dew flavors to celebrate the colorful and wonderful World of Warcraft! Horde Red is going to be a citrus cherry flavor, and Alliance Blue is going to be a wild fruit punch flavor - two tastes that sound tee-riffic! I can't wait to try them!

Look for the new flavors in stores June 15th, but your chances to WIN big prizes start a LOT sooner than that, so sign up now and start rackin' up the game tokens!!!

Mountain Dew FTW

Finally! I found out when the flavors will be available in stores: June 15th. Ack! How am I gonna wait that long?

Well, I know one thing I can do while I'm waiting: play the Mountain Dew Game Fuel Game and hopefully WIN a trip to BlizzCon '09 this year!

You can enter to win too! Just click on the link below:



Mmmm, I can't wait for the new drinks, they sound sooooo yummy! The Horde Red is Mountain Dew spiked with a cherry citrus flavor and the Alliance Blue has a wild fruit punch flavor.

I shall display a countdown on my MySpace and Facebook profiles so everyone can know when the new flavors come out!

FOR THE ALLIANCE!

Choose your side - Alliance or Horde?

Win a trip to BlizzCon '09, or an Alienware Notebook, or how about a Razer Lycosa™ Gaming Keyboard?? And those are just the beginning! Starting May 29th Mountain Dew is going to start drawing names to win these prizes and YOU could be one of them!

So how do you sign up? Click here:




As if that weren't enough, Mountain Dew has unleashed two (2) new flavors to go along with the promotion: Horde Red, a citrus cherry flavor, and Alliance Blue, a wild fruit flavor.

So have fun playing Mountain Dew's new promotion and look cool doing it slammin' one of the new drinks!