I’m so excited that I’m sleeping with my camera because Friday marks the beginning of the next scavenger hunt. So if you haven’t done it yet, head over to the Dark Side of JohnnyRockstar.Net and add your team to the list. The three person cap seems to have been lifted, so go nuts. Here’s the team rundown thus far:

Adventure Team Nayked:
Bryan and Sarah Zera
Will and Carrie Mobritton
Amanda Widmer
Colleen Elkin

Team Discovery Channel:
5K
5K's woman
yanR McGillisy
Dajut

Team Gila Monsters:
Amelia
Casey

Team Venture:

Johnny Rockstar
Kathryn
Emily
Kelly

Team The Cup:
The Cup
Tasty Beverage
Sippy Cup

Team Pissing Bridge
Cal
Preston
Jake
(Fun Police?)

Team Dead-Last
Garrett
Scotty
Three-headed Monstar (either kevin or steve or dan... who knows)

Posted by Johnny Rockstar at 01:34 PM | Permalink | Comments (6)

A new photo-scavenger hunt is in the works. Head over to my cyberspace second half's to see what's what.

Posted by Johnny Rockstar at 08:10 AM | Permalink | Comments (3)

Does the name Joe Esposito mean anything to you? It didn’t to me either until last night when I got my hands on a copy of a certain Karate Kid song by the name of You’re The Best Around. After listening to it, oh, several dozen times, I came up with a guaranteed pick-me-up for when you’re feeling down and out. Grab a walkman, cd player, mp3 player or any other portable media device and slap in You’re The Best Around. Then just walk around and pretend Mr. Esposito is singing directly to you. I’m telling you it’s better than any song from Rocky(yes I said it), because I AM the best around and nothing is going to ever keep ME down. It even comes close to my own personal theme song, the Wackachicka. If I could somehow combine the two… look out ego, I AM THE BEST AROUND!

Fifty million points and a weeklong tribute to your undying and never-wavering awesomeness if you can give me a *good* mix-up of the two.

Posted by Johnny Rockstar at 08:57 AM | Permalink | Comments (5)

Last night I muttered to myself the phrase, "Oh great, now I have salad in my pants."

Points for anyone who can guess why I said that, or failing that, come up with a good fictional reason.

Posted by Johnny Rockstar at 11:21 AM | Permalink | Comments (8)

I went camping last night… in my living room. In preparation for a camping trip this weekend, I set up a tent and pulled out a sleeping bag, all in my living room. Combined with the kayak sitting on the foosball table, it was a nice little campsite. Plus I could sit in my tent and watch television or play video games, and I was close enough to an outlet that my computer didn’t have to run on batteries. Something I learned: Even a small tent looks huge in a living room. So I took it down today during my lunch. Not exactly roughing it I know, but it was fun, so fun I can’t wait to do the real thing. I really can't wait for the food. Campfire cooking is the best and anyone who disagrees is a communist. That’s right, I said it. Unfortunately, my cast iron cookware is limited to just one big pan, but you can make a lot in one big pan. Beercakes and bacon just may be in my future.

In other news, at the constant hounding of Barefoot Warrior, I updated the leaderboard. The bios are a bit janky because some of the numbers show through, but I’m too lazy to fix it right now. If you haven’t submitted a caption on the dark side of the page, do so now for another chance to roll.

Posted by Johnny Rockstar at 02:34 PM | Permalink | Comments (5)

I have bios up on the leaderboard now, scroll over your name to see your story. I don't know all of you that well, but I think I got things pretty close. If not, too bad this is my site and I'll say what I damn well want to say. In honor of having actually updated something in less than six months, here's a chance to get some pins nocked down in the second frame. As always, if your name isn't on there yet, it will be if respond to this. Also, I try and make these as random as possible so it's not a matter of who gets to google first. Come up with five awesome superhero names. Then I'll put together some sort of voting system or maybe just judge them myself. Let's try and steer cleer of things like Butsecks Man.

Posted by Johnny Rockstar at 03:55 PM | Permalink | Comments (11)

Even though I'm pretty sure this is going to spiral into a massively confusing task for myself, I've scored the first frame on the The Big Lebowski inspired leaderboard. Strikes for the jokes that really tickled my fancy, spares for anything submitted and open frames for nothing. And I must say, I was a little dissapointed that my sister didn't tell her, "Why the long face?" joke. Also, bonus cool points for nobody submitting a cheesy pun. Finally, when I get that awesome combination of free time, energy and drive, I plan on making the board interactive with bios and whatnot.

Posted by Johnny Rockstar at 10:27 AM | Permalink | Comments (8)

Okay, so I’m not mad as hell, but I am in a one hullofa grumpy mood today. I can tell I’m in a bad mood, well for a lot of reasons, but especially because when I read this, it hardly fazed me. On a normal day, I’d be all about it. Unfortunately I’m sort of between projects at work right now, which leaves me with nothing better to do than sit here and stew in my crankiness. I’m hiding at my desk listening to dark songs with the volume on my headphones cranked way up. I only wish my volume went up to eleven; that would be great. As it is, my ears are in a little pain, but I’d rather deal with that than have to actually engage anyone in conversation at the moment. As easy as it is to sit here brooding all day, I really don’t want to stay in this funk, so tell me a joke. Give me your best, cheesiest, bad joke. I lost the ability to edit the leaderboard in the great Linux/Windows debacle of ’06, so whoever comes up with the joke that makes me laugh the hardest will get the first points on a new leaderboard. Also, the new board will have a set date on it and whoever has the most points come that time, will get some sort of something displayed in the header for a week.

In other news, there’s talk of a new photo-scavenger hunt at my internet-life-partner’s site.

Update:
New board is up and instead of a date it's a set number of questions. I may start naming multiple winners so there aren't so many open frames.

Posted by Johnny Rockstar at 09:40 AM | Permalink | Comments (14)

It's been way to long since I've offered up some points for the leaderboard. Since 5K has another caption contest running, I thought I'd join the fun. For 3 points, what was I talking about today when I said the phrase, "I'm not jonesing for a fix or anything; I've just been staring at _____ for 45 minutes and now I'm _____."?

P.S.
Mom, note the strange but correct punctuation. I never thought I'd do that again.

Posted by Johnny Rockstar at 04:31 PM | Permalink | Comments (22)

It's been too long since I've done anything with the leaderboard, so here's a riddle. Points to be decided by how easy this is to solve.

There are no buildings in my towns
My rivers are dry
There are no cars on my roads
What am I?

Posted by Johnny Rockstar at 10:31 AM | Permalink | Comments (29)

I must admit, I got a little homesick yesterday when Bryan called me from Gizzard City. He, Sarah, Jen and Chuck were drinking beer and eating all of Joe's finest fried foods; gizzards, Oreos, pickles and fries. I don't think they had the fried twinkie though. Same that. But man, just talking to those drunken bastards for five minutes sure made me wish I was sitting in Joe's Gizzard City with them. I hope I'm able to come home for Gizzardfest this year. Aside from the pounds of deep fried chicken guts I want to eat, it would also be nice to see Erich and Nora's wedding. But really, Gizzardfest is just a gun shooting, ball playing, beer drinking, Mohawk vomiting, gizzard eating, firework exploding, bonfire burning, backyard barbequing, car showing, mullet watching, face sunburning good time. Did I leave anything out?

In an unrelated note this guy is pretty amazing.

In another unrelated note, my good friend and confidant, Ryan has another photo to caption for the leader board.

Posted by Johnny Rockstar at 05:32 PM | Permalink | Comments (7)

All right gang, I need your help. There's a rumor floating around that somewhere on my page is a picture of a naked cupid with an arrow shaped package. Personally, I have no clue what this is about and can't ever remember seeing anything like that. Do any of you ever remember seeing a picture like that on here? Or anywhere that could have been a link from here? Three points for the person who brings me that picture.

Posted by Johnny Rockstar at 10:30 AM | Permalink | Comments (9)

Depending on when the last time I announced new cartoons was, there are either two or four new ones for your enjoyment. I think it's pretty much impossible, but 5 points to anyone who can tell me what the cover of the book says in Uber-Nerd.

Posted by Johnny Rockstar at 02:28 PM | Permalink | Comments (9)

This is the new look, more or less. I still want to tweak a few things and fix a couple bugs. Also, this is the only page I worked on today, that means everything else still looks like it used to, and probably will for a while. In the meantime, two points for anyone who can tell me why my roll-over images aren’t working and an additional two points if you can tell me how to stop all my apostrophes and other random punctuation from being converted into this junk – ’. I've been trying to figure it out for a while, but I developed a splitting headache which I have to believe is partially due to staring at my computer screen for hours on end.

P.S.
Are all six images at the top on the same row on your screen?

P.P.S.
Let me know if your browser throws up a bunch of errors when you scroll over the images at the top.

P.P.P.S.
I have a new about page up if you want to see how the images are supposed to work.

Posted by Johnny Rockstar at 08:24 PM | Permalink | Comments (10)