Back from ICON!

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 11:47 AM

So I came back from ICON last night, and it was a lot of fun. I met many people, saw many interesting things, and it was just fun to be there. I went to a couple tournaments, had my laughs, stayed with friends at a hotel, and got a couple of things.


Friday night, we found the Magic room, and we spent some of the night there. After that we went to AppleBees and ate. Then we played some xbox until we fell asleep. Then on Saturday, we went to a huge room with lots of RP players, and RP'd for hours on end. It was a lot of fun. After RPing, we went to the Dealers Room, which is a bunch of panels and lots of things that people are selling.

After I went outside I saw some sword fighting, and it was awesome. It was 10 dollars to sign up, and then you can do it as much as you wanted, and it was a lot of fun. You sword fight with just random people, and everyone is really friendly and funny. After doing that, I longboarded around the entire campus for a little bit, and saw some amazing Cosplay.

I wish I had taken more pictures, but I got a decent amount, and a couple of videos. There were so many people who had dressed up as random characters in animes and comic books and movies, it was great. I got to talk to some of them, and meet some really cool people.

Overall I had a great time, and I hope to start going there every year, and make it a yearly thing in my schedule. I was going to go with more people, but some people couldn't go this year. Next year hopefully it will be better, and more awesome than it was this year.

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Frisbee, Work, Magic!

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 11:46 AM

So on Friday, I played Frisbee with a bunch of people. It was kind of fun, but everybody who played wasn't really that good, and there were only a couple people who were actually good at it, and we were all on the same team, and eventually won 7 to 0. So it was a good thing that we were playing, we just all need to work on getting better is all. After Frisbee, we then went to a nearby bench and starting playing Magic, which I know sounds lame, but I know had some fun, I really like the game.


It's funny how people automatically assume I'm a loser for playing a card game that I really enjoy, oh well.

So the kitchen is coming along pretty well. I just finished working for a couple of hours, cleaning up all of the sheetrock from the walls that were broken down a couple weeks ago. We had to sort them all in bags, but my cousin was the one putting them into bags, and I guess we made them too heavy. So we had to distribute the weight among even more bags. It wasn't that hard, but it's really time consuming.

So today the plan is to go to a friends house, and just hang out. I hope I get some exercise and go out and play more Frisbee with more people.

Anyway, that's really it for now, not much else, the week after though, it's Spring Break for my school, along with most of my friends, so that'll be fun.

One more thing, if you think I should read one of my passages I wrote, tell me, and I'll do it tomorrow.

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Sports and ICON!

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 8:24 PM

I've been playing a lot more sports recently, and it's fantastic. It's been so beautiful outside and the weather is just gorgeous enough that I can play frisbee and handball in just a shirt. I've been having a blast these past couple of days and getting in plenty of physical activity. I did rough out some injuries, but nothing substantial, and I'm a little sore, but that's probably from doing a ridiculous amount of exercise. I played maybe 3 hours of frisbee, and then after that, a couple hours of handball.


It's great and I can't wait to start doing some Parkour. I'm going to try to get some people into it, so that I have people to practice with. It's really hard doing Parkour on your own, because it's fun to do it with other people and have a team.

The only downside I see is that, it's technically still Winter, and it's almost 70 degrees outside. This really isn't that good. I'm not going to go into a huge rant or anything but I will say this. If you see a light on that's not being used, close it. Turn off your T.V. Unplug stuff you don't use, buy smarter, and stuff like that. It may seem like it doesn't do anything, but it adds up. At the end of the day, if there are 100 more people who do the same thing, you might have saved a couple dollars in electricity, and it really counts towards the environment.

Next up is ICON! It's coming soon, and boy is it going to be fun. It's my first time going, and I'm going with people who've been going for years. I can't wait, it's going to be an entire weekend at Stony Brook at a hotel full of people who cosplay, play games, design games, create comics, read comics and other stuff.

I'm going with 6 people, and we're all sharing a room at a hotel for the weekend for a very very good price. It's a cheap price for what we're getting. I just know that I hope for the best, and that I come back with more money than I left with. You see, at this event, you can play for money if you want to, and my friend and I plan to play together with Magic cards, and make some money. All I want is to have fun really, and I'm going on a strict budget, so if I lose some, I'll still be happy.

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All American.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 7:37 PM

So today I went to this place called All-American Burger, and there's only one of its kind. It's in Massapequa, out in Long Island, and it's a long ways away from most locations, but it's really worth it. Every burger there is around 1 to 3 dollars, and all of them are almost the size of your face. My friends and I got maybe 5 pounds of burgers for only 35 dollars maybe, and with fries and drinks. It's incredibly cheap and good.


It's not all that unhealthy for you too, because it's real beef, none of McDonald's secret sauce crap with artificial stuff in it.

Speaking of healthy, it's getting warmer and warmer everyday, and I can't wait till it warms up so we can play Frisbee, Football, or Handball. It's going to be great. My club at school decided we're all going to go LARPing the last week of school. If you don't know what that is, you're missing out on a lot of fun. It stands for Live Action Role Playing. Basically, it's like you're playing a video game.

There's healers, warriors, leaders, flag carriers, and so on with teams. You use actual weapons and flags and carry armor and everything. You do all that on rough terrain with random objects laid out everywhere. Then you set up your own rules and wreak havoc and have fun. I used to do it as a little kid, now I'm doing it as a 20 year old college student.

Isn't life grand? I have some more to talk about, but that's for a different time.

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Nothing to talk about.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 7:48 PM

Yeah, so it's me here, but I don't have much to talk about. I was with a couple friends and they were going to have fun and have a get together. They used to be a big group in high school but some of them came back for different reasons, but I opted to come back home because I have school tomorrow.


It''s funny because I had a lot of friends in high school, and right before my senior year, I had a group of friends, and we'd call ourselves the hoodlums. Everyday we would get together and just do something else. It could have been doing nothing, or playing football or playing games or just hanging out and talking about nothing. It was a lot of fun.

I don't really have much of a group to do that with anymore, although sometimes I'll see a couple friends and get together and talk about life, it's great, but I don't have a regular group of friends that I regularly see and do things with. It's not really a complaint, but more rather something I'd like to see more of.

I don't really have much to say. I got Allaire an iPod, one of the older ones, the iPod Nano 8 GB, because I knew she wanted one, I could just tell, and I got it for a really good price. I hope she enjoys it and uses it because everybody should have music in their everyday life.

Not really much of a blog post I know, but not much has really happened. If this happens again I'll have to pull something from one of my serious posts, actually that doesn't sound like a bad idea.

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New Paltz? Old Friends?

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 2:37 PM

So today I saw one of my friends, Peter, who I usually never see. I have been seeing more of him recently, and that's definitely a great thing. Thinking about it now, I have been seeing a couple of friends more often than before, and I'd like that to continue. I never really hung out with some people from the olden days, and that's really a shame, because some of them are really good people.


I really have to look into dedicating my time towards more people, because they won't, and I won't, be around forever.

I might head up to New Paltz on Thursday just for fun with a friend, and hopefully we'll get some fun. A lot of college people are starting to come home from Spring Break, so maybe I'll join some people, because I get out a little early from school.

Construction to the kitchen is going pretty well. If you don't know, we're redoing the entire kitchen, and I mean the whole damn thing, it's all gone. My dad's replacing the floor right now, and we did the kitchen window yesterday, and it's starting to look pretty good.

Things are going pretty well, and hopefully they'll get a lot better, I know I'm going to try as best as I can. Things are starting to warm

That's really it for now. Not much news going on in my life, I do still want to go see Alice, but I heard it was really bad from a lot of people.

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Cop Out.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 8:11 PM

Cop Out is a movie that was directed by one of my favorite directors of all time, Kevin Smith. It wasn't written by the guy though, so it didn't urn out nearly as good as it could have been. It also isn't in the New Jersey universe with Jay and Silent Bob, or Ben Affleck or people like that. Jason Mewes is in it, but he isn't playing the comic jackass genius that he is in all of the other movies.


Review of "Cop Out".

Plot Summary.
I think the story takes place in Chicago, I'm not so sure, but that doesn't really matter much anyway. It stars Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan with I think his name is Sean Scott or something. Bruce is typically playing his funny tough cop act as he typically does in all of his movies, and Tracy Morgan is his partner who seems to be a little on the slow side. He is really funny though. So Bruce has a daughter who's getting married, and he doesn't have the money to pay for it. He doesn't want to let his ex-wifes husband pay for it, because that will make him look bad, not to mention that that guy is a complete ass. He decides to sell his baseball card which recently sold for about $80000 or something like that. He goes to the store, and he gets robbed. As he tries to get it back, he makes a deal with the guy that has it to get his car back that's been stolen. They get the car back, but there's a girl in the trunk who doesn't know English. There's a lot of comedy in between scenes to fill the gaps, but in the end, the card gets destroyed and he can't pay for the wedding, they get promoted and he earns his daughters love by walking her down the wedding. That's it, but there's a couple of things I left out, but they aren't so big.

The Good.
It was really funny. Both, if not all actors did a very good job at making my friends and I laugh. Never at one point did I get bored and wanted the movie to end or stop abrubtly. The acting was pretty alright too. I mean, I don't expect any oscars or anything, but it was decent. The plot wasn't very solid, but it was strong enough to keep the movie going and keep you entertained. Of course one of the key elements was that it was directed by Kevin Smith. Every movie he's done is really good. But this is the only movie that he's done that he hasn't written, so obviously it didn't turn out as well as it could have.

The Bad.
Well, it wasn't written by the guy, so that's a bad already. I never thought he would ever direct a movie that he didn't write, because I've seen him in tons of interviews and stuff, and I never would think that. The only real bad I can think of is that Bruce Willis always plays the same damn character every time. He never changes, almost ever. Anyway, that's really it. I can't really think of anything that was bad but I mean, there wasn't too much good, so it makes it okay.

My Overall Thought.
Eh. It was alright. I mean, it wasn't so amazing that I would watch it again and again, or maybe even a second or third time. It doesn't really have much replay value, unless your looking for a quick laugh. This definitely won't best any charts or any other movies, but it's just there because it can be, and because it's a fun movie, without any huge promises. It wasn't really brought out and advertised as an amazing fantastic movie, because it really wasn't, and I think Kevin Smith knew that. He probably looked over it and said, eh, it's alright. That's what I say at least.

My Rating.
I'd give this movie a 6.5 out of 10. It was definitely the weakest movie he's come out with, but how can you compare it to Clerks, Dogma, Zach & Miri, and Mallrat movies? You can't.

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Busy, tired.

0 comments Posted by Bijan Turkcan at 6:54 PM

If you read my blogs you should have known that I was going to come out with a review for Cop Out yesterday, but I didn't. Why you ask, why have you left me with no video for me to watch because I have nothing else to do?


Well, I got home at 9 PM last night, when I really didn't intend do. I ended up spending 4 hours at a place called Game Table, doing nothing but sitting around and play and watch people play magic. Nerd haven for others, but not for me. I was so tired by the time I got home, and my battery had died out.

Anyway, I was going to do one a couple of minutes ago until I decided, nah, another time. I'm also very hungry and I have to type up an essay and catch up on music homework.

So I took my math test today, but I'm screwed if I don't get another calculator that costs $120 bucks. Why does it cost 120 dollars? Because it does things like add and subtract and make pretty graphs that are super not useful in real life.

I also got my case in that I ordered for the iPhone, and it's real nifty, and very smug tight.

Last news for the blog, I can fix the PowerBook G4, for a nominal fee of around 350 dollars. But that's so expensive, you might say. Well, yes and no. One, it's mac, two, it's a really good computer and it gets the job done. Either that or get one of those netbooks.

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