So on the 360, there is an xbox 'news' tab. It's the very first option on the very first screen you see every single time you boot up your system.

Now... in this news section there are anywhere from 8-20 articles (ie. ads) about new content on the xbox. every day or two they add a page or two of news. at the bottom of each article is a link to the product they are hawking, or a link to the view they are talking about.

they had an ad for the new Lewis Black TV show as one of their new pages. instead of offering a link, the offer the instructions 'go to shorts, got to recent, then download'... gee... thanks. then in the marketplace, they have a major tab for shorts... they dont mean that tab. they mean to go under television, then under shorts. but that doesnt matter because...

THE VIDEO IS NOT POSTED!

i looked all over, even alphabetically.

way to go. nice. right on. ok. thanks. great. yes.

in general, i have no complaints about the 360, so maybe i'm just bitching for no reason. its just that they went so far out of their way to promote something thats not there... much like EVERY WEEK IN THE CIRCUIT CITY ADS. see a great deal in the latest CC ad? well you best forget about it because they never even carried the gotdamned thing and will call you an asshole for even asking about it.

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CD

Michael Showalter - Sandwiches and Cats

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i found an even worse job than lugging around shopping carts as a lot attendant... and that job is... Gas Station Attendant! B to O to the RING.


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Fotini went to see 'Juno', so Call of Duty 4 it is! i'm tired as hell tonight though...

I played Call of Duty 4 for about 3 hours tonight... it was hard to put down, because I was on a tear! I generally suck at live games, sick at FPSes, suck at war games, suck at video games, etc. But tonight... man. The other night, I created some really tight classes, but didn't have time to test them until tonight. Once I unlocked the M5... forget about it.

I threw a red dot sight on it, last stand, unlocked claymores and spent a lot of time cooking my grenades. I got MVP at least twice, and was always in the top 2-3... not that great in and of itself, but i'm also a much lower rank than nearly everyone alive. tonight is the first time i've ranked up enough to actually play with people ranked lower than i am. i'm still only a 25 or so. i started out tonight at 17... most people have seen 55 come and go. after you 'top' out at 55, you can start over again at zero, but with a different icon... you can do that 5 times or something.

and the games i won weren't just by a couple points.... i had over 25 kills for the first time ever. also, i had seven kills in a row for the first time ever (it happened twice) and was able to call in a chopper. and got over 10 kills both times (though, the chopper helped). i finished a lot of challenges too!

it was a lot of fun! there was NO douchebaggery to speak of, although the camping snipers started to wear me thin.

the great thing about CoD4 though is that there are very very few bottlenecks. there's always some other way to get where you're going, so they couldn't camp for long. i took the long road a couple times and took out some snipers who were dominating the field.

i also officially hate 'Bloc'. what a crappy level. its essentially like that one Halo level with the two spaceships side by side. You can sit there and snipe, pretty well hidden, and if you're a good sniper (which i'm not) you'll last for a while. that said... it made them very easy to sneak up on, as they were always scoping the scene.

i never realized calling in a UAV gave you points.... but i did it often and noticed it always gave me +10. thats nice.

i played a couple levels i've never played before too. one is another level that snipers should love, but mainly because its all rooftops and its a mess so you cant tell whats what. fun level though. it was just really hard tracking down those guys, as the road is raised so you're always out in the open when you go after them.

i wish i had some real life friends on it, but thats ok. it just makes for a great group game. too bad it doesnt support local multiplayer on live.