you're very welcome! by the way looking forward to checking out your book! already got it bookmarked. will make a nice holiday gift for myself. :D

Hello Mr. Ashcraft!

Just thought I'd stop by to let you know that a poster on 1up completely copied your post on the girl with the 360 drawing that you posted. It's even on the front page at the moment under "Popular Blogs".

[www.1up.com]

Dunno if you would care or not, but yeah.

Keep up the good work!

No worries! Let me know how it is. I'm catching up with the rest of the world on things like Muse right now.

The Verve's new album! How is it? I haven't gotten it yet.

Hey Brian,

Has there been any thought to posting an article/looking into the extreme censorship of the music in Madden 09? I can understand censoring swear-words, but what they have censored is unbelieveable.

It's pretty bad, for example:
- the following words were removed from The Offspring's "Hammerhead" track:

* "guns" from "Camouflage and guns"
* "in arms" from "with my brothers in arms"
* "loaded" from "locked and loaded"
* "shadow of death" from "shadow of death, i fear no evil"
* "my aim" from "my aim is true" - the entire outro!

- the following is censored from the Disturbed track on there. From the chorus:

* "life" from "release your life..."

Apparently, there are quite a few instances of this occurring with non-offensive lyrics throughout many of the tracks.

Doesn't anyone else find this very strange? Or is it just me?? ha.

I am a huge Hayao Myzaki fan (Ghibli in general), and if and when you see Ponyo on a Cliff, i would be greatful to have your oppinion on the film.
Thanks!

[www.gametrailers.com]
Cursed Mountain trailer, post? :D

Otanjou-bi Omedetou Gozaimasu Ashucurafto-San!

Hey Brian, nice comment post about the Pokemon movie. I know its not games-related, but let me know what you think of the Ponyo movie if you go with the rest of the family :)

Well you know something, Ashcraft, brother... when i look into your eyes man, i see the biggest threat to hulkamania in the history of hulkamania brother, so, at Wrestlemania 25 brother, it will be you and me in the middle of the squared circle brother and we will find out where the power lies.

Hey Bash, congratulations on getting your book published! I have a friend in the marines in Japan, I'll have him go pick me up a copy : D

Congrats on the completion of your book :) I'll actually be in Tokyo when it comes out so I'll be sure to attend your release event.

IGN just posted the coverart for Mega Man 9 and it is deliciously horribly retrotastic...

[wii.ign.com]

Hey Brian, hope you get some time to yourself after all the extensive E3 converage! Enjoy my multi-tap suggestion :)

Keep up the great work.

Hey Brian,

The funniest thing so far today is the "The Last Guy" first teaser. It's hilarious and you guys should should have it here on the site :)

Read My Private Message. Very Important.

Brian,

From the recent posting about David Hayter posting on the IMDB boards, I was just curious If you had heard of the Petition for David to write the screenplay for the MGS film?
I am the founder of the Petition and we currently have just below four thousand signatures. If you've been keeping up with it, you will know that David Hayter supports it and even mentioned it briefly at the Anime Expo.
I was hoping that you could help us publicize the Petition by posting an article on Kotaku. I would be very greatful for this and would be happy to answer any questions you may have. Email me at alexanderoregan@hotmail.com.

Link for Petition: [www.petitiononline.com]

By looking at his IMDB message board, you can view the messages between David and myself.

Thanks Again

Alex O'Regan.

The music, I mean (should of made that clear, Haven't been to sleep)