My GF and I attending the San Francisco Dia de los Muertos festival on November 2nd. It was both crazy surreal and oddly peacefully spiritual. I'll have to post some pics.

And we are going to see Pucifer tonight! I'll have to get some pics of that as well. Sounds like it's going to be an awesome show.

Nightfall decends upon the land, the moon drawing high. Mother nature has drawn her curtains on All Hallow's Eve. The unnatural fog unfurls across plain, forest and town, shrouding neighbor and stranger alike in a bluring world of misty nightmares and muffled screams that tear through the night drawn out by tappings at the glass window; bumps in the night; and boogey men come to get you.

As masked children and demons come pouring out of the shrouded edges of reality, you cannot tell who is friend and who is foe until at last, upon your door they stand and demand:

Trick or treat.

Happy Halloween!

Maybe I shouldn't bring attention to the fact that I am a loner on Live, but I'm finding it next to impossible to find people to play ODST's Firefight mode together.

I don't understand why Bungie didn't include a matchmaker, such a simple little tool that most of us FPS/Multi freaks take for granted. Oh, I found Bungie's reasoning, but in reality it's just frustrating. If you don't have 3 dedicated or 10 revolving friends to play Firefight with, then you're handicapped.

I have had the game for weeks now and haven't been able to play Firefight. I finally decided Gamespot wasn't the place to look for Fighters, so I logged on to the Bungie.net ****fieds forum. You wouldn't believe how clogged it is with Firefight/ODST requests. Bungie didn't include matchmaking and cited a more "personal" experience for it, but in reality the MM just has to occur on a website instead of in-game, and with just as many strangers.

Hmmm, maybe they thought it would sell like the Bible and everyone would own a copy?

I'm not buying it. Bungie's excuse OR the game (I Gamefly'ed it). Thanks a lot, Bungie.