We got a Wii

Last week a box arrived from Rhonda, she already spoils us both, although mostly me, rotten to the core. This year for Crimus she sent us a Wii. And with no irony attached to it at all, the Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 game that comes with the wee golf club. Priceless, it was bought before the scandal the photo they picked of good ol’ Tiger for the 09 edition is creepier and more arrogant looking than normal, fucking awesome it’ll likely be his last one ever. We stopped buying the Tiger games before we ditched the PS2 and made the switch to XBox because EA kept making weird changes or what we like to call un-provements so if memory serves we stopped buying them after the 07 edition.  We are both really excited about trying it on the Wii though, it is obviously very different. If it is ANYTHING like the Wii Sports Golf, I will suck so bad it should make for some very amusing rounds. The Wii Golf destroyed my skillz score. I’m better at Wii Baseball, these games remind me of my horrible hand eye co-ordination and make me wonder how it is that I have actually become a decent golfer in real life. Almost ten years of practice now I guess.

Wii Bowling.

Wii Bowling.

Wii Bowling.

I started this hanging my hanky out of my pocket thing in Bali and seem to be keeping it up back in my home country. I am not trying to be cool or make any kind of fashion statement, we only allow nose tissue in here if we are really sick and have fire nose and thus have both switched to hankies. I say that wearing a leather belt, it was a gift, so it shall not be denied the awesomeness that is the attached guitar belt buckle. Like my Browns boots I got em before I went as green as we can afford to go.

Wii Bowling.

It is hard when you have Ninja knee high socks AND Unicorns to say that you’ve found a pair that are cooler BUT I did. These socks have red foxes on the feet and happy little mushrooms and little trees and if I ever got a chance to meet Neko Case I would wear them and be sure and show them to her.  It isn’t my fault that they also match the t-shirt I got the first of four times that I have seen her live being the Fox Confessor Brings the Flood tour, the only other group I have ever seen that many times is the local super star husband and wife pairing that make up Mojave [I have their t-shirt too].

naked Hunter S. Thompson w/ Vegas in his glasses.

Dr. Vegas is taking a huge liberty here in wearing the very naked Hunter S. Thompson’s frames that will be the aviators he is being made.  You will also have a hard time not noticing that this is the first time that Dr. Vegas has appeared without his mask in quit some time, in fact if memory serves the last time he was photographed without it was because he was pretending to be Woody Guthrie.  Adam and I were just saying that Dr. Vegas is on a journey of some sort right now. I wasn’t the only one changed forever by a trip to Bali.

“He hasn’t been completely the same since he got back” said [father] Mr. Adam Carlson just as this was going to print.

Gus.

Gus was very into the Wii and watched us play a lot.

If you’ve ever wondered if I’m an energetic person even though I claim to be a hermit though I also claim to be a runner and doer of the yoga and a player of the golf, then this video is for you.

C.J do check out the tunage in the Adam bowling videeeeo. Although seriously WTF, she is NOT growing on me AT ALL. We are really into iTunes Genius mixes right now, because I loaded the entire CD library onto the computer and C.J very generously gave us some CDs, Joanna Newsome shows up a lot, and it is never a good ending.

And get this, I’m going to backup all the music, soon.

Tis the season to look wrecked in photos.

  • http://www.canoncamerabag.info Alexander Hall

    I like the Mario Kart game because it is more challenging as you get to the next level.~”

  • http://gusgreeper.com gusgreeper

    i never thought even just the basic sports would be so much of a work out. i <3 it big time, for when im too lasy to do the Yoga and stuff.

  • Chris

    My wii is killing me/mii.

  • Rhonda

    :)

  • http://gusgreeper.com gusgreeper

    hehe no problem i aim to please. :)

  • http://goodreads.com/ Isreal(cami)

    thanks for the laugh..I got my little brother a Wii as well…
    ha ha hah

  • http://gusgreeper.com gusgreeper

    merry crimus and a happy new year to you and the old geezer!! my love for the XBox remains but this Wii is more fun than i could have ever imagined.

  • Maja

    A wii would suit you down to the ground! Nice one sista, merry crimbo!!!

  • http://gusgreeper.com gusgreeper

    @rhonda totally having fun, didn’t do my Wii fitness test yesterday so im prolly gonna be frackin’ old again.

    @spockette we can’t afford games for it right now the Wii sports if fun for now and apparently adam has a lead on borrowing Mario Kart.

    @abc4 see you on the couch.

    @Shawnte did you watch the video? that is me almost kicking the tv, we are strapped for room in a big way we have out grown this apartment times about four years.

    @kim i have no hand eye co-ordination and im spastic and clumsy let him watch my video, promise you won’t act like that (if you can i mean i couldn’t) maybe cross yer fingers, and the machine is yours!

    @sarah i’ve got Wii back, Wii forearm, Wii triceps… now i have to wait for Wii elbow. SEND IT BACK!

    @bee we will, videos are fun! and you asking gives me more of an excuse to make them. YAY!

  • http://gusgreeper.com gusgreeper

    i made a big ass error in this post i wasn’t thinking that 10 would already be out and I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN that. the photo on the cover is even better than 09.
    Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10

  • http://thefunkybee.blogspot.com theFunkyBee

    YAYYYYYYY Wii!!!!! Just please promise me you will continue to video tape yourselves playing! I wish I was videotaping when my hub smacked the poor pooch with his controller, lost control, then hit himself in the face with it. Thank god for the wrist strap…I laughed so hard I almost peed my pants.

  • sarah

    yer gonna get Wii elbow..

  • http://repliderium.com kim

    Apparently I am not allowed a wii.
    For some reason Steve feels that the flailing about will result in much carnage and broken glass. I hate to agree with him but he is probably right.

  • Rhonda

    @spokette, when we first played it watching others with little co-ordination was hilarious, I will say that :) I prefer my RPG’s , give me Final Fantasy anytime ;)

    @abc4 you so sweet :) John asked what I sent you for Christmas this year, I replied “little things” lol although I did tell him ahead of time :)

  • http://www.iamaforklift.blogspot.com Shawnte Clow

    SO FUN! We’d love to get a Wii, but there’s just not enough room in the apartment, there’d be broken stuff everywhere! Maybe after Christmas…………

  • http://gusgreeper.com abc4

    if i ever find myself on an award show you can be sure that rhonda will be the first person i thank. and not in the meaningless, obligatory jesus shout-out. what else can i say?

    also i may be able to borrow a copy of mario kart from a friend, i am convinced it will be koopa-soopa-doopa-para-troopa.

    next year i want a tanooki suit.

  • Spockette

    Its about time you guys got one! What an awesome gift! You didn’t like Raving Rabids, Rhonda? Its one of my favourites for the mini games when playing with multiple people. Its just silly.

    Rather than buying games straight away, rent them from Blockbuster or Rogers first. Some of the Wii games have a terrible exchange values from EB & Future Shop.

    Mario Kart rocks! Don’t rent or buy Brunswick Lanes. Such a waste of money! Worst bowling game EVER!

  • Rhonda

    Hope you are having fun!!!!! Don’t waste money on Raving ribbits…it sucks. I haven’t tried Mario cart yet so I can’t rate it :) Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!! :)