So Halo 3 is coming, life has finally cycled back to it’s Zenful ways. The 6 months before a new Halo release comes out is like a slingshot being stretched more and more until xbox is stretching it so much that when they let go you could head shot Tartarus across Ascension with it. O.K. maybe a little dramatic. Anyways here is the release information for Orange County. And yes you know it would be cool to have a sling shot in Halo 3.

One of the biggest video games ever is back The much-anticipated Halo 3 for the Xbox 360 goes on sale Monday night.

And the Best Buy store in Fullerton is one of only a handful of Best Buy stores that plan to open at midnight to sell the game to the most dedicated fans. Other OC midnight openings include GameStop and the Newport Beach Circuit City (see end of post).

Best Buy won’t say how many games each store is stocking. But a spokeswoman tells me, “We we will definitely be ready for the buying frenzy (both on Monday night and beyond)! As always, we try to maintain enough stock to make sure that anyone who wants to buy the game at anytime can do so.”

Will Halo 3 top Halo 2’s first-day sales record of $125 million?

Here’s the deal for Best Buy. Line up whenever you want, but pre-launch madness starts at 10:30 p.m. Best Buy is giving away lots of stuff, such as t-shirts, hats, glow balls and bam-bam sticks. The first 25 people in line get an “exclusive Halo blow-up game chair with built-in speakers.”

The Fullerton store is providing photo ops with Halo’s Master Chief.

Best Buy will have four versions of the game available: Halo 3, Halo 3 Limited Edition (left), and Halo 3 Legendary Edition and the special edition Halo 3 Xbox 360, which I first spotted at E3 earlier this year.

All are available as pre-orders on Amazon for $59.99, $69.99 and $129.99 and $399.99.

And kids, if you’re under 17, bring someone older with you because Best Buy says it’s sticking to its policy to only sell games rated M for mature.

Serves 4

1 eight-ounce, center cut salmon fillet, skinned and cut into long ½- x ½- inch “logs”
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2 cups Tea Spiced Smoked Salmon Mousse
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1 bag yaki-nori
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2 cups rice flour
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1-tablespoon togarashi
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1 bottle club soda
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1-tablespoon wasabi powder
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Juice of 2 lemons
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¼ cup grapeseed oil
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Kosher salt

Fill a fryer or medium stockpot one-third of the way up with canola oil and heat to 375 degrees. Place a sheet of nori, shiny side up, on a sushi mat and spread a quarter inch thick layer of the Tea Spiced Smoked Salmon Mousse on the bottom half. Lay a salmon log on the mousse at the bottom of the nori and roll. Repeat with remaining nori, mousse, and salmon. Meanwhile, in a large bowl, mix the rice flour with the club soda and togarashi until a pancake batter consistency is achieved. Dip the maki roll in the batter and fry until GB&D (golden brown and delicious). Season with salt and slice. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, whisk together the wasabi powder and lemon juice. Slowly drizzle in the grapeseed oil while whisking to emulsify. Season with kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper. To serve, zig-zag wasabi vinaigrette on a platter and place sushi pieces on top.

1. Drink Pomegranate Juice
2. Eat Blueberries
3. Relax a Little
4. Pop Selenium
5. Order Sushi
6. Spend More Time Outside
7. Clear Your Air
8. Exercise
9. Sleep well
10. Eat Garlic and Vitamens

1. A guy walks into a bar with a slab of asphalt under his arm and says, “A beer please, and one for the road.”
2. An amnesiac walks into a bar and asks the bartender, “Do I come here often?”
3. A guy with dyslexia walks into a bra.
4. A young Texan walks into a bar and orders a drink. “Got any ID?” asks the bartender. The Texan replies, “About what?”
5. A pair of battery jumper cables walk into a bar. The bartender says, “You can come in here, but you better not start anything!”
6. A Latin scholar walks into a bar and says, “I’ll have a martinus.” The bartender asks him. “Don’t you mean martini?” The man tells the bartender, “Listen, if I wanted two or more drinks I would have asked for them.”
7. A horse walks into a bar. The bartender asks, “So, why the long face?” A variant on this joke during the 2004 presidential campaign substituted John Kerry for the horse, but the punch line remains the same.
8. A penguin walks into a bar and asks the bartender, “Has my father been in here?” The bartender says, “I don’t know. What does he look like?”
9. A brain goes into a bar and says to the bartender, “I’ll have a beer, please.” The bartender says, “Sorry, I can’t serve you. You’re out of your head.”
10. A little pig goes into a bar and orders ten drinks. He finishes them and the bartender says, “Don’t you want to know where the toilet is?” The pig says, “No, thanks, I go wee-wee-wee all the way home.”
11. A cheeseburger walks into a bar, and the bartender says, “Sorry, we don’t serve food in here.”
12. A dog with his foot wrapped in a bloody bandage hobbles into a Western saloon. He sidles up to the bar and announces: “I’m lookin’ fer the man that shot my paw.”
13. A baby seal walks into a bar. “What can I get you?” asks the bartender. “Anything but a Canadian Club,” replies the seal.
14. A grasshopper hops into a bar. The bartender says, “You’re quite a celebrity around here. We’ve even got a drink named after you.” The grasshopper says, “You’ve got a drink named Steve?”
15. A goldfish flops into a bar and looks at the bartender. The bartender asks, “What can I get you?” The goldfish says, “Water.”
16. A guy walks into a bar. A horse behind the bar serving drinks. The guy is just staring at the horse, when the horse says, “What are you staring at? Haven’t you ever seen a horse serving drinks before?” The guy says, “Honestly, no. I never thought the parrot would sell the place.”
17. A polar bear, a giraffe and a penguin walk into a bar. The bartender says, “What is this, some kind of joke?”
18. A guy walks into a bar in Cork, in Ireland, and asks the barman: “What’s the quickest way to get to Dublin?” “Are you walking or driving?” asks the barman. “Driving,” says a man. “That’s the quickest way,” says the barman.
19. A tourist goes into a bar where a dog is sitting in a chair playing poker. He asks, “Is that dog there really playing poker?” And the bartender says, “Yeah, but he’s not too smart. Whenever he has a good hand, he starts wagging his tail.”
20. A guy goes into a bar, orders four shots of the most expensive 30-year-old single malt Scotch whisky and downs them one after the other. The bartender says, “You seem to be in a great hurry.” The guy says, “You would be too if you had what I have.” The bartender asks, “What have you got? “Fifty cents,” is the reply.
21. A man walked into a bar, sat down, and ordered a beer. As he sipped the beer, he heard a voice say, “Nice tie.” Looking around, he saw that the bar was empty except for him and the bartender. A few sips later, another voice said, “Beautiful shirt.” At this, the man calls the bartender over. “Say, I must be losing my mind,” he tells him. “I keep hearing these voices say nice things, and there is not a soul in here but us.” “It’s the peanuts,” explains the bartender, indicating a dish on the bar. “The peanuts?” “That’s right, the peanuts–they’re complementary.”
22. A man walks into a bar with a giraffe. He says, “A beer for me and one for my giraffe.” And they stand around drinking for hours until the giraffe passes out on the floor. The man pays the tab and gets up to leave. The bartender says, “Hey! You’re not going to leave that lyin’ on the floor, are you?” The man says, “That’s not a lion, it’s a giraffe.”
23. A man walks into a bar looking sad, and the bartender asks him, “What’s the matter?” The man says, “My wife and I had a fight, and she told me she wasn’t going to speak to me for a month. The month is up today.”
24. This guy walks into a bar and orders a drink. He looks in his pocket and orders another drink, looks in his pocket and orders still another drink. His curiosity aroused, the bartender asks, “What are you doing? What’s in your pocket?” And the guy says, “It’s a picture of my wife. When she starts looking good to me, I know it’s time to go home.”

1 1/4 Hours
parsley

1 1/2 Hours
lemon
Irish moss

1 3/4 Hours
avocado
grapes
mango
olive, ripe
raspberry

2 Hours
blueberry
sweet cherry
grapefruit
orange
raisin
coconut milk
artichoke
beet greens
garlic
potato
tomato
brown rice

2 1/4 Hours
fig, fresh
pear, fresh
pineapple
strawberry
asparagus
carrot
cauliflower
lettuce: cos, loose leaf, iceberg

2 1/2 Hours
blackberry
date
fig, dried
gooseberry
peach, fresh
almond
dandelion
greens
leek
mushroom
okra
lima
bean
white rice
basmati rice

Note: Foods beyond this time should not
be eaten 3 hours prior to bedtime.

2 3/4 Hours
apple, fresh
apricot, fresh
currant
peach, dried
plum
watermelon
chestnut
coconut meat, fresh
pecan
pignolia
beet
summer squash
wheat bran

3 Hours

lime
prune, dried
filbert nut
walnut
broccoli
cabbage
Swiss chard
sweet corn
endive (escarole)
kohlrabi
rhubarb
spinach
winter squash
white bean
lentil
soybean
wheat germ

3 1/4 Hours
cranberry
cantaloupe
casaba melon
honeydew melon
olive oil
pomegranate
cashew nut
coconut meat, dried
celery
cucumber
onion
sweet green pepper
pumpkin
radish
rutabaga
sweet potato
turnip greens
watercress
snap bean
peas, fresh
peanut
millet

3 1/2 Hours
safflower oil
sesame seed oil
eggplant
mustard
greens peas, dried
soybean oil
rye

3 3/4 Hours
persimmon
quince
red cabbage
barley
wheat

4 Hours
Brussels sprouts
horseradish
turnip

* Source: Ford Heritage, Composition and Facts about Foods (Mokelumne Hill, Calif.: Health

With such a awesome line up, how can you go wrong right?  Well..  start by not having an actual show, did these people forget what a concert is supposed to be like? I mean every band just ran around on stage other then David Groul going through the crowd. I had a feeling Foo Fighters where going to be the only ones to step it up. Not too mention the stage looked like something from the mtv music awards. Is this a Pink concert or is this fucken Kid Rock! But the music was good and the bands didn’t kill the concert. If anything killed the concert it was the lifeless drones standing there front spooning their girlfriends. Didn’t concerts have people that moved at one point, or heaven forbid people that partied? But despite the lack of life from most people we did find some awesome people, and did have fun in style; Kon fu fighting when we shouldn’t of been, Brandies infamous robot when it wasn’t appropriate and getting woke up by cops when Brandy and I where kissing on a lawn (maybe a little drunk). They seriously said they have to haul us in for public indecency…WHAT! I had kiss ass needless to say. So we went back to the truck and passed out for a couple hours then got some Del taco on the drive home and crashed until 1 then next day.

Rock on!

Commercial director Joseph Kosinski is in final negotiations to develop and direct “Tron,” described as “the next chapter” of Disney’s 1982 cult classic. Sean Bailey is producing via the Live Planet banner, as is Steven Lisberger, who co-wrote and directed the original film.

Kosinski, who last month signed on to helm the remake of “Logan’s Run” for Warner Bros. Pictures, will oversee the visual development of the project and have input on the script, which is being written by “Lost” scribes Eddie Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. Story details are being kept secret.

The original, about a computer programr thrust into a computer and forced to fight in games he helped create, is remembered for its sci-fi gladiator-style battles and groundbreaking special effects. It was the first movie to use computer-generated images instead of models and other optical effects in conjunction with live action. The arcade game based on the movie was so popular that it earned more than the movie.

When making the original, in order to convince the studio to take a chance on a first-time director, Lisberger shot a test reel, financed by the studio, involving the deadly Frisbee battle. In a case of historical synchronicity, sources said one of the things Kosinski will be doing is working on a sequence involving the movie’s Light Cycles to work out his vision for the movie. Sources also said visual effects personnel, for many of whom “Tron” was an inspiration to enter the business, already are jockeying for pole position to work on the sequence.

Kosinski is a former architect whose specs caught the attention of director David Fincher, who convinced Kosinski to move to Los Angeles, where he joined the director at commercial house Anonymous Content. Kosinski then moved quickly up the ladder, eventually directing award-winning spots for Nike, Apple and Nintendo that gained notice for their use of computer technology that erased the lines between reality and CGI.

Kosinski is repped by Endeavor and Michael Sugar and Bard Dorros at Anonymous Content.

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-Personal note:
My guess is they will fuck it up, much like star wars, Disney hasn’t really done a good movie in along time so unless they bring in some outside influence and push the limits of kid friendly it will suck. But I guess it doesn’t matter I will see it and probably buy the HD DVD version when it comes out.