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Shiraz's Wardrobe

Shiraz is a decently dressed guy with a fairly decent wardrobe. But he’s very conservative with his clothes and to me, this is grounds to make fun of him. So very calm and serious, whenever people are around, I always go “oh is that the jacket you bought at Bradlees?” lol… it’s a nice, normal jacket that I think he actually got from Banana Republic, but because I actually say the word Bradlees (a store that doesn’t exist anymore), it’s so random that people believe it and go “oh.. cool.” He hates this to death, and gets aggravated, but I keep my calm so he can’t say anything and people just have to believe it.lol, on Thanksgiving weekend I did another spin on his wardrobe with one of his conservative light blue shirts. I said, “oh nice.. is that your father’s shirt?” and it made him laugh uncontrollably, while pissing him off uncontrollably.He told me he hates this and wonders why I do this. I told him the truth. “I have no idea.” Next time you see Shiraz, point out his Bradlees jacket and/or his father’s dress shirt.

My Annual Thanksgiving Videogame Fest (2005)

The Thanksgiving tradition I usually don’t break is playing video games all night after food. I remember doing this since I was a kid. I even remember doing it a few years ago with Mario Kart on N64 (crap.. or was it Christmas) where me, my 1/2 white cousins Jon and Shawn and a rotating 4th player kept playing nonstop. And we kept listening to Camp Lo – Luchini … I dont’ know why.Anyways, this year, I thought I’d keep it going with Super Mario Kart on GameCube.

We did this the whole weekend, starting Wednesday night until Saturday night. (Sunday night fell through because Mo’s a punk and couldn’t come earlier). But we played each time for like up to 8 hours non stop. It was sick…. Disgusting.. vulgar…

one of the annoying things about the gamecube though was the lack of games. At gamestop, where I bought mario kart and 3 more controllers, they had a buy 2 games get one free special. The problem was I couldn’t figure out 3 games! I ended up doing Mario Kart, the Smallville Season 2 DVD set, and a rotating 3rd game.

The “rotating” free game was at first Starfox Assault, which was terrible. Shahan said it best after the first 4 player battle match we played… “wow.. what a un-fun game.” I returned that disc the next day and punched the guy who recommended it to me. Then I got midnight club Dub edition for PS 2, which I was hesitant to purchase the whole time because a) it wasn’t 4 players, and b) it didn’t have a case.

Luckily, it didn’t work, and I took it back the next day. They had Mario Tennis which is what Shahan really recommended and they had super monkey ball 2. I went with Mario Tennis.

Note: Why didn’t I go with Super Monkey Ball 2? Because they had super monkey ball 2 used for $17. And they had super monkey ball 1 used for $17 too. So combined, used it was $34. Well, you could buy a super monkey ball 1 and 2 new boxed set for $30 at the same store! The only problem was that I HAD to get a used game as per their rules (they have a higher profit margin on used games). When I told them that this didn’t make sense – a new boxed set of 2 games costing more than each used game individually – they said simply “… yeah” and that was the end of that.

Back to Mario Tennis. At first, I was bummed because there was no manual for this used Mario Tennis, but then I noticed that there was another Mario Tennis right next to it which was a display box for a new one. That one had an instruction manual. So, like the cell phone bandit, I stayed on the phone and calmly moved the instruction manual out of the new one into the used one. I probably could have gotten this if I asked nicely, but, what’s the fun in that?

Anyways, we still haven’t played mario tennis yet. Shahan and another Mohammad I know (a big nintendo buff) has said this game is hot. Hopefully tonight I’ll get to enjoy both Mario Tennis and Mario Kart some more.

Shahryar