If you aren’t already a regular reader of my blog, here are my choices for THE BEST OF TOREN’S ABSOLUTE BLOG entries for 2007
DEEPLY PERSONAL ISSUES = HILARIOUS
Christmas Magic Came Out of My Gut
http://www.thickets.net/toren/2007/12/27/all-this-christmas-cheer-stuff-makes-me-puke/
More extremely personal bodily functions
http://www.thickets.net/toren/2007/09/22/anal-distention/
My Fight With Fat
http://www.thickets.net/toren/2007/04/16/food-tastes-good-in-my-mouth/
ACTING/FILM:
What it’s like to have a small role on an episode of Stargate:
http://www.thickets.net/toren/2007/09/15/some-notes-on-my-stargate-atlantis-experience/
The final version of the commercial I was in (filmed in the basement of Riverview Mental Hospital):
http://www.thickets.net/toren/2007/03/21/careful/
How special effects can work against movies:
http://www.thickets.net/toren/2007/11/17/i-am-overcompensating/
SOCIAL COMMENTARY:
Religion: Why?
http://www.thickets.net/toren/2007/07/27/the-trouble-with-dawkins/
Why I Don’t Like Patriotism or Competitive Sports:
http://www.thickets.net/toren/2007/04/22/why-i-dont-like-patriotism-or-competitive-sports/
Just cuz you think you have a soul doesn’t make you better than me:
http://www.thickets.net/toren/2007/11/13/a-comfortable-emptiness/
ART/PHOTOS:
My first four comic book pages ever:
http://www.thickets.net/toren/2007/04/02/spaceship-zero-comic-page-4/
If you ever wanted to know how spooky an abandoned mental hospital can look:
http://www.thickets.net/toren/2007/01/19/riverview/
THIS RANDOM THING HAPPENED TO ME:
A Funny Story About Cocaine and Bare Skin and Chilliwack and Getting Locked Out of Joyce’s Car
http://www.thickets.net/toren/2007/05/22/coke-head-in-their-underwear/
MUSIC/THICKETS:
For Guitar Hero Fans and Darkest of the Hillside Thickets Fans
http://www.thickets.net/toren/2007/05/14/de4dmeta1-is-my-guitar-hero/
The Best Music Video Idea Evar (and yes we still need more marine biologists)
http://www.thickets.net/toren/2007/05/06/a-marine-biologist-video-idea-please-disseminate/
NERDS ONLY
Geisel’s entry into a nerd contest, featuring a “professional actor”
http://www.thickets.net/toren/2007/07/08/wizard-needs-haircutbadly/
The best D&D setup ever
http://www.thickets.net/toren/2007/12/09/enter-the-world-of-dungeons-dragons-toren-style/