I didn't quite remember any kung-fu roosters until Gabriel sang the theme song - but those plots of my physical brain untilled since youth began to turn, and that knowledge rushed upon me. I tasted forbidden "sugar cereals" on my tongue as I recalled his travails against the despotic General Tso, who floated from here to there on a kind of floating throne which was also an oven. He believed (for whatever reason) that Kung-Foo Rooster's dedication to the martial arts would create the most tender chicken the world had ever known, and put his considerable personal fortune toward discerning the truth of the matter. There were ninjas all in white with cleavers and chef hats in addition to a group of seven interchangeable hatchling sidekicks called, collectively, "The Chix."

I’m getting lots of mail about the new merchandise. I just wanted to make it clear that all that stuff will be in the online store after Comic Con. It’s still being printed right now and as soon as it’s done it’s being shipped down to San Diego. A couple weeks after the con you’ll be able to buy all of it online. I’m glad you guys seem to like the new stuff sorry if I wasn't clear about that before.

Speaking of the San Diego Comic Con let me show you some of the new stuff we'll have.

Given the recent conflagrations we've been party to, I thought you might be interested to see this diagram of the booth layout for San Diego Comic Con (provided by T Campbell):

Kara recently got into the scrap booking thing and so she’s been digging out all these old photographs. One of them I found particularly awesome.

So now I've gone from nothing I'm really playing consistently to trying to manage World of Goddamn Warcraft, Guild Wars, Freedom Force Vs The Third Reich, and now that Battlefield 2 demo. Like the mortar between them, any spare second is occupied by El Grande, which as you all know is the strategische Brettspiel von Wolfgang Kramer für den PC. I mean, obviously.

I had to wait two hours and forty-five minutes but I was finally able to get into the Alterac Battlegrounds the other night. I was having a blast with CTF but Alterac is an entirely different experience and just as fun.

They eventually came to an agreement, the specifics of which are covered in the article I'm about to link you to. But it's starting to look like the information we received initially - that actors wanted recurring percentages of profits, or something to that effect - isn't exactly correct.

Varsity over at EvilAvatar has few download options for getting the demo, if you haven't already. I started at a healthy hundred and twenty k or so from Gamespot, but by the next time I looked it said I could expect the demo around lunchtime on Tuesday.

ConfigSys.Boy, whose experince is greater than my own in these matters, would like to append the following.

The Canvas Curse (and its attendant rainbow conveyances) was a welcome addition, because we're stumbling parched through that desiccated wasteland that always follows E3. That's part of the reason I (and the clamoring nation, I presume) are hot for this Battlefield 2 demo that's supposed to hit today - with what, exactly, does it compete for our enthusiasm?

Do you remember this old thing?

My friend ConfigSys.boy (from the Starsiege: 2845 project) dropped me a line about his own time in the Battlegrounds, which couldn't have been more different from what we experienced. Or couldn't experience, because of electronic lines which recalled The Happiest Place On Earth.

I have some pictures of our new limited edition print to share. Here’s your first look at the new CTS print that will go on sale at the San Diego Comic Con.

Not too big a deal, if you wanted to you would have signed up when we bludgeoned you with it earlier - but the last day to be entered into the Omegathon II is July 1st, after which we'll be choosing the contestants. Pre-registration can be reached at this link.