Retooled, revamped, recharged, let’s do this.

Oh man, here we are again.  SSB.  The three letters that signify a certain level of geekiness achieved only by years upon years of #thatgeeklife.  Welcome to the new “Strawberry Scented Burnout” website! Lovingly hosted on bluehost.com, SSB is now a wordpress.org site, with all the bells and whistles that come with it.  Truth be…

BACK AGAIN.

Back from the depths like a laced out, custom built Cousteau submarine. Let’s just pick up and kick back where we left off like a Three Ninjas reunion and proceed to spread all the glorious funk for which we were once known…There comes a time for growth, there comes a time for change, and there comes a time to…

Happy Friday!

I haven’t done anything overly geeky in a while, so here’s a clip of me practicing my shungokusatsu with Shin Akuma, of Capcom vs SNK 2, one of the finest fighting games ever made.

Oh Me! Oh My!: O M Jii

I may have just been out of the loop, but I saw this the other day and just had to share. There are these USB lighters from Japan. Pretty cool concept. A lighter and USB in one. For the tech geek who also smokes. Wonderbar! And they run on rechargeable battery? Amazing! And then there’s the commercial…

Asian Archetypes in Comics: Revealed and Reimagined

For any film makers, writers, actors, or musicians out there, the Japanese American Natural Museum in Los Angeles is calling for original monologues or short performance pieces “that rethink, subvert, deconstruct, or satirize the eight Asian pop-culture archetypes depicted in the Marvels & Monsters: Unmasking Asian Images in U.S. Comics, 1942-1986 exhibition. Winning entries to be showcased on…

Of course I supported “Mighty No. 9”. Why wouldn’t I?!

For many of us gamers, Mega Man has a special place in our collective hearts.  Some more than others.  Admittedly, I didn’t start playing with the Blue Bomber until the X series.  That shit was the tits. However, the blue bomber’s been gettin’ the shaft from Capcom as of late, and after his creator Keiji…

For all our readers going back to school…

I hope your senpai notices you.

Courtesy of Sherdog :)

A Lineal History: Middleweight Championship Infographic by Sherdog

Life at “The Boxing Club”

Gym time. This is where the magic happens. Stick with us and we’ll see how deep the rabbit hole really goes.