Blind Idiot God

Revocation - Scattering the Flock

Hey now, speak for yourself only. I actually like Rolling Thunder. To each their own that is what I say. I like classic old white rough wooden coasters. I would rather them get rid of Green Lantern or Superman than Rolling Thunder. I think both are boring coasters. But that is my opinion and a lot of people do not agree with me. If they do get the drop tower on the side of Kingda Ka I sure hope they are ready for all the issues with wind like in Magic Mountain. From my experience that goes down a lot due to high winds. I could be wrong so I apologize if I am. There's a difference between charmingly rough and "ow ow OW someone get me some Tylenol oh **** I think I broke something" rough. Rolling Thunder is decidedly in the latter. Made Wildcat look smooth.

Bizarro is probably going to stay put, as it's still popular enough to justify keeping it where it is. Rolling Thunder was a walk-on, and it's an uninteresting, forceless, hideously rough waste of space that no one likes. Hell, it doesn't even have the "baby's first big-ish coaster" reason for existing, as there's still RMT.

Went on 8/21 as part of my brief NYC vacations. Rather than a full report, here are my thoughts (not in chronological order): -BtR: First Batman, and jesus christ was it something. Didn't black out, but it was still astoundingly forceful and never let up for a moment. -Nitro: Decidedly inferior to SFNE Bizarro, but still a strong ride in its own right. -Green Lantern: Surprisingly good and quite forceful. Better than people give it credit for. -Superman: Pretzel loop wrecked me. Everything else was okay. -Kingda Ka (pahk my cah, khed): Launch floored me and the air was fairly decent. Rattle wasn't too bad due to my being tall enough to escape headbanging. -Bizarro: Decent overall, surprisingly intense second half and a fairly odd zero-g roll. -Runaway Mine Train: Reasonably fun, but goddamn rough. -Skull Mountain: Serviceable time-killer. -The Dark Knight: Meh. -Rolling Thunder: OW. Should NOT have been stupid enough to ride it. El Toro was down, which blew; other than that, the few flats that still exist were decent enough, and the tostadas (those aren't chalupas, khed) that I had at La Cocina were surprisingly tasty. Also, I saw three fights break out over the course of the day, all due to linecutters. Two were standard wannabe tough guy posturing fests, but one actually did turn physical after someone stuck their foot out and tripped the linecutter. The day was ended with a six-pack of Yuengling and a bunch of Robot Chicken, Squidbillies, and Aqua Teen at the hotel that I was staying at (sure, it was in East Orange, but it was dirt cheap and I've walked around in the hood enough to know how to not look like a scared white kid).

Yuengling Traditional Lager. Not being able to get it in New England is wicked lame.

Sam Adams Boston Lager. Tried-and-true.

Deeds of Flesh - Xeno-Virus

Inherit Disease - Prolific Dominance

Abysmal Dawn - Rapture Renowned

Kamikabe - The Rot

Voivod - Kluskap O'Kom

Havok - Worse Than War

I would assume that if there were a lot of security personnel in a one-train line, it was probably to crack down on the linejumpers and other behavior problems that tend to result from long, slow-moving lines.

Last one as of now was Cattle Decapitation's offdate up in Burlington, VT. Been friends with Josh and Dave for a while now, so it was nice to actually see them again. The best part, however, was seeing them get a full-length set in front of a grateful audience, even if they did fail to play anything off of The Harvest Floor.

Beyond Terror Beyond Grace - Dusk

Kraken Black Rum. Strong as hell, but goddamn delicious and SMOOTH. Man, this stuff is so friggin' good.

Dude's either a really bad troll or needs to take off his tinfoil hat. Surprised that he didn't say anything about Illuminati involvement or something equally absurd.

Goddamn it. I'm going there in about a week and I'm gonna be pissed if El Toro is still out by then.

Vektor - Tetrastructural Minds

Narragansett Summer Ale. Low-quality hipster fare, basically.

Arch/Matheos - Neurotically Wired

Hate Eternal - Thus Salvation

Arkaik - Sirens in Electric Veils, Part I

Exhumed - Carrion Call

Exhumed - (So Passes) The Glory of Death