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patrick

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About Me

Gamespy.com is where I work, as an associate console editor. It's an amazing gig, and I love it, but it can be a bit rough to meet me there. Send me a message if you're interested.

My Interests

Secret Santa presents that leave people so well thought out they realize I've been watching them the whole year.

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to meet someone capable enough to keep up, but not so capable that I have to feel defensive. So, ninjas are fine, but cold-blooded government spies are out. On an addendum: Girls who have pictures of male models up - if not all over their walls - are just as viscerally disturbing as boys who have pictures of girl models up. Beer icons or underwear logo don't make a difference, all we get is the lovely feeling that attractation, emotion, the best vices, sex, sensuality, a good image, all of these things can be bought and sold like a seven dollar copy of Cosmoaxim. How can you worship something that isn't just false, but pandering to self-deception? whether the goal of attraction is something that if you believe it is sacred or not, it is still deeply personal, a very clean expression of "self." How can you allow a marketing budget to dictate what turns you on? The buying and selling of sexuality is the single biggest flaw in American society, which leaves me freaked out even more - since the competition is stiff. I have no opinion on girls with girl posters or boy with boy posters. Yet.

Music:

What's up today? Azure Ray, old TMBG (narrow your eyes, sink manhatten, She's an Angel), the postal service, magnetic fields, decemberists, coldplay, and some The Flaming Lips. You?

Movies:

Pi, Donnie Darko, The Princess Bride, Three Amigos, Freeway One and Two, My Blue Heaven, Frailty, the Matrix, Starship Troopers, Seven Samurai, Six-String Samurai, Aladdin...these are all movies I've heard of.

Books:

I don't read, for fear that I'll start talking.

My Blog

A simple blog from me

No news, nothing of particular interest, just a quick note: Burn Notice is awseom.  Watch it and keep it from being cancelled, or I'll throw a big fit. It's always Sunny in Philadelphia, too.&nbs...
Posted by patrick on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 05:57:00 PST

Another year under the hood.

Last year, my "that's a birthday" blog post was a bit more on time. It's indicative, I think, of my overall available time. I've gone from freelancing to working at GameSpy, which tears about 60 to 10...
Posted by patrick on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:58:00 PST

The GameSpy Debriefing

Sorry everyone who subscribes via iTunes, our feed is a bit choppy this week.  But I won't let that stop me from bringing you the brand new episode of the GameSpy podcast anyways, because I love ...
Posted by patrick on Wed, 30 May 2007 08:50:00 PST

iTunes link for the Podcast!

Hi everybody, and here we are:Here's a direct link for the GameSpy Debriefings on iTunes, you can always just search for those keywords as well:http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewP o...
Posted by patrick on Thu, 24 May 2007 10:23:00 PST

The new Podcast!

Every time we get you guys coming, we appreciate it.  It's the second GameSpy Debriefing! How much do I love having you guys check it and listen?  Millions and millions of tons.  So che...
Posted by patrick on Sat, 19 May 2007 01:43:00 PST

My Podcast (for work, yeah, but hey! Mine!)

The podcast for my work, GameSpy, is up.  That's it, under the link.  We just kicked this off, and its first few weeks of life are crucial!  We'll have RSS feeds and an iTunes link soon...
Posted by patrick on Wed, 16 May 2007 07:03:00 PST

Hits, sun, hits

Gamespy and I are officially rolling.  I'll be staying home tomorrow to work from ...uh...it.  I'm going to be playing a metric shit ton of Rainbow Six Vegas  -- check out my first impr...
Posted by patrick on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 02:56:00 PST

Work

    That was a hell of a week -- two console launches and a race at a hundred miles an hour to be working, online, and overall rocking with gamespy.com.  My NHL 2K7 and Tiger 07 re...
Posted by patrick on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:28:00 PST

Waiting for the PS3, first new article

I 've been up...a while now, waiting for the PS3 launch. Taking a break to get some sleep, take the piss, what not, write up a few things. Speaking of, check this out -- my first piece with Gamespy.&n...
Posted by patrick on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:46:00 PST

Work

    Man, I am tired. And behind in replyin to people; I'm sorry. What was going to be time inbetween freelancing and starting work turned into tons of freelancing and starting work earl...
Posted by patrick on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 06:26:00 PST