Myspace, carefully annotated and cleverly anonymized because I didn’t cheat and vacuum right before the photo:

What you don’t see: the aforementioned unvacuumed floor, 15 stacks of books and 4 stacks of CDs, 2 bags of camera equipment and the dog sprawled on the floor licking the subwoofer. (WHY? WHY?)

Abalieno (of Cesspit) and Dundee (of Mythical) also tagged (and they were tagged by two friends … and so on … and so on) but they didn’t email and I usually don’t read the feed until Tuesday-ish — so no extra credit for them.

Just so you know, don’t send me a Myspace meme asking for 5 celebrities I’d do or 5 flavors I love because I won’t respond and the chain will die with you. I’m sure you already know how dangerous that would be.

Five Things You Probably Don’t Know About Me. (Well, how could you unless I told you?)

1. I graduated from the University of Illinois, aka The U of I. If you ever hear an Iowa alumnus refer to Iowa as The U of I, you have my permission to punch him (or her) in the face. Fucking posers.

2. My great room has been under major remodeling construction for the past two years. Original estimate – three months. I don’t want to talk about it.

3. I can’t sing. You know how moms always say you can be anything you want to when you grow up? Mine qualified that with “… but not a singer.”

4. I’m a music hag. My collection, at last count, totaled over 1500 CDs plus a 6-foot stack of vinyl. If you stop over at my house some day, bring your iPod, I’ll hook you up. Don’t ask about the construction though or you’ll be out on your ass.

5. I still have every box from every MMOG I have ever purchased, including the expansions. I actually pack the boxes in other boxes when I move. I just now realized how ridiculous that is.

Since I’m the last blogger responding (great), the bad luck is all mine … that is … unless … yes, it could work. I’m going to tag YOU, the AFK Gamer commenter community. If you have a blog and you’d like to join in, pop a trackback or ping to this post. If you’re not a blogger, give me 5 in the comments. Don’t be shy, takes 5 minutes, otherwise I’m doomed to bad blogger luck — which for me means guild tranquillity.

I have no credentials other than this: I play games.

You’re in my world now. Be afraid, be very afraid.

More about Foton:

• Contact: Fotonafkgamer.com
• Self-indulgent introduction
• Disclaimers
• History – the game characters over the years
• Guilds – the past, present and future passed
• A rare Foton interview by Zonk (aka Michael Zenke IRL), published in GameSetWatch October 2006.
• A less coherent Foton interview by Fraxx, the Psycho E-Bitch. She’s not kidding. (But I am.)
• Stalking Foton – web defacement elsewhere

About AFK Gamer

Updated Monday through Thursday, or Tuesday through Friday, sometimes on Saturday or Sunday. Meh. Updated most weekdays.

If you’re new to AFK Gamer, here’s a list of Favorite Posts, excerpted, in reverse chrono order — sometimes I hit the high notes.

Many of the AFK Gamer images are hosted on Flickr, the exemplary photo sharing site, in the Screenshot Gallery. Off-site forum threads and other transient material discussed herein are archived either in AFK Gamer’s Furl archive or, in some cases, ancient paged material is saved in the Hanzo (original) archive. Newer paged material is saved in the (not-ancient) Hanzo archive, and btw, thanks Hanzo for screwing around with the login system without providing a recovery process.

More about AFK Gamer:

• Hosted by: A Small Orange
• Former Blog Slave: Rasterafkgamer.com
• Site Taglines, Sep 06 – Present
• Site Taglines, Sep 05 – Aug 06
• Site Credits – more details about the design and the hacks. Technically, they’re not hacks, but after I’m done shoving square code into round holes, “hacked” is an apt description.
• Site Plugins

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