I'm excited to announce the latest addition to the Hijinx staff: The Machine: Bride of Pinbot! I've always wanted a pinball machine, and now I own a robot construction themed one. We'll be rolling out a high score contest soon, so get ready to win big prizes for your pinball skills.
I'm very interested in the idea of a pinball machine being an interactive art object. It insists that you give it money and invest your time in learning it's arcane rules and intricacies and rewards you by revealing hidden aspects of itself and awarding you points. It's a very early form of electro-mechanical interactive art, and fun as heck too. Pinball rules. Bring quarters!
How can you not want to kick ass after hearing this? I especially love the announcer naming that week's guest stars and episode title. I wish they still did that.
I just want to thank everyone who voted in the "Best of Silicon Valley" readers polls in the Metro and Wave magazines. Thanks to your votes, Hijinx took first place in both magazines, and one of them even spelled our name right!
Fellow comic book retailer and Hijinx mentor Joe Ferarra will be attempting to set a Guinness Book world record for continuous live performance, all in the name of raising awareness for prostate cancer, of which he is a survivor.
He'll be performing 12 hours of live music with no repeats and no sheet music at the Shadowbrook restaraunt in Capitola starting Sunday September 14th at 10am.
Joe is not only a great guy and a great musician, he's also got a great comic book store I visit every time I'm in Santa Cruz, Atlantis Fantasy World. If you can't make the record-setting gig, make sure to visit him on your next trip to Santa Cruz, and tell him Hijinx sent you!
The amazing Professor Plastik has started releasing this killer series of golden age paper dolls. Please, won't someone download and make some of these for me so I won't have to?
Google just announced they are releasing their own web browsers, bringing some serious performance and UI enhancements to the web browsing table. Not only that, but they hired Scott "Understanding Comics" McCloud to make a cool comic explaining the whole shebang. Pretty technical, but well worth reading.
