NightStalker....

So I am running late again, hopefully this one will catch me up...somewhat.

I was given a call Saturday by a group of people trying to access my blog and that's when I figured out I had been shut down for violating the terms of service. Hopefully all is forgiven and you noticed the warning prior to. Someone must have went elementary school on me, oh well. Looks like I am back and running, Loomisms version 2.0...which Ii will now be backing up.....

Beer of The (Last) Week:
About ten days ago Ii had one of the best beers that I have had in recent memory of its type. I was waiting for my parents to snag me up from the Flying Saucer, and after having an Avery IPA, which was hoppy and flavorful, I noticed the
NightStalker....which is already a sweet name and would make a fantatstic comic book. I was informed it was only in 22oz bottles and it was sixteen rocks. Ii remembered the article in the STL Post-Dispatch a few weeks back praising it and stating that it was only bottled until late march so you'd be lucky to find them prancing about. With little hesitation Ii accepted and was pleasantly surprised. I spoke with the Goose Island rep at Microfest and he told me the two locations where they were still available. Man, is that stuff the sheezy!

Jam of the Week:
Welcome to the Jungle, Guns n Roses

I understand this is a very uncharacteristic song for me to put out there...but when you go to a Royals game and see them black it out in flames in the 360 vision with this blaring you cant help but get goosebumps...unless you are un-American or a CreamSox fan. Purely mesmirizing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4StVvK0Dh8&feature=related
Shout out to youtube for having this on there, it's not the best...but you get the idea.

Game of the week:

I was almost tempted to not have one after my boyhood excitement was dashed and stomped on with Godzilla-like force. When Ii saw there was a downloadable version of Tecmo Bowl redone for XBox live arcade I grinned and giggled uncontrollably and downloaded and waited. No NFLPA liscence. Not really that cool to switch from "3D" to "2D" on the fly. Huge disappointment. I thought it would have all the old teams and present day teams and I could play it on Live and beat people while telling them how bad they are in a Loomy-type way. Not so. Why do they always do this? Over-hype and bring back an old classic, only to ruin it forever. They didn't do it with Zelda or Mario, but they sure as hell managed to with Sonic and Castlevania. I remember when Ii bought Castlevania in 3D for N64 and could hardly contain my glee only to realize it sucked. Thank God for Capcom remaking new 2D Mega Man games, I got 10 and it is pretty impressive, which could give it the game of the week in this last second rant slash change of heart, but instead Ii will stick with the ingenuity to recreate a classic with classic characters....truly remarkable. Peep this link and try to play for less than 20 minutes....not possible.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/534416

I had no idea that the Loom April bracket of awesome would be that tough to put together. I have finally put the list together in next year's accepted NCAA Tournament Format. It was extremely difficult to put a field of only 68 of the best teams after the autobids from some systems. It was still pretty rewarding and fun. I now see why it's so easy to beat up on the selection committee yearly, but they weren't beefing down a group of thousands, merely three hundo and some change. I first ranked each system in order then allowed automatic bids from that...whatever didn't fall into that went into the 'bubble' From the bubble I selected the last seven games. I then went through and gave a rough estimate of order of awesomeness then serpentined the way through the brackets so Ii would not show favoratism...although I'm sure I will throughout. The Four Divisions will be named:
Captain N Division
Hyrule
Cortana
Vice City