A Week of Birthday Stories (Day 2) and a Great Webcomic

First things first, a little sneak peek on DC Conspiracy’s development. It’s all still raw (yes, the desk looks horrible), but it should be a cool sight when completed. Any of you guys that live in the DC area, create comics, and want to jump on from the ground floor click the Yahoo Groups button on the front page. I’m not going to name drop yet but some serious talent is going to be a part of this.

Birthday week continues. Believe it or not, I used to bowl. For about 4 straight years I was on an actual league. I think I started when I was 8 and played until I was 12 or 13. All the kids in my neighborhood joined this youth league at Melody Lanes. It was a great time, my team never won a championship but I won the “I Beat Santa Claus” tournament by rolling a 186 at a young age. It was a proud moment, the trophy still proudly displayed in a box in the basement.

Naturally, one year I had a bowling party. Not surprisingly, most of the people I invited where people in my league and a few neighborhood and school friends. We all rolled a few games and spent a good amount of time plating DJ Boy and Operation: Wolf in the arcade. I think as far as over all party atmosphere and fun goes this was probably the best of my childhood birthdays.

Fitting that it was paired with the worst cake. This cake was nothing like the Snake-Eyes cake I had at my Roller Skating party but they did have some thing in common. They were both Carvel cakes, both Vanilla Ice-Cream goodness and chocolate cookie crumbles. But were nun-chuck clad Snake-Eyes was standing we now see a humongous pirate head in all it’s pirate-glory. No eleven year old kid should have a pirate themed birthday cake. I honestly have no idea what I was thinking when my mother asked me, “What cake do you want” and I said, “A pirate cake.”

I honestly don’t think I ever even liked pirates. I still don’t, even after Pirates of the Caribbean and Nate and Benito made them cool. To me, a pirate will always be the epitome of gay and when I was eleven years old I had the gayest birthday cake ever made.

Not that there’s anything wrong with it. Argghhhhh!

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