It’s been an absolute nightmare the past 2 weeks.  My body, my brain, and my heart has never been pulled in so many different directions at once and so fast.  As you may have noticed my 365 Pics have slipped, I simply haven’t had time to do the photography I love.  I hope soon to get back onto my regular schedule.

There’s also some personal changes, if you haven’t heard, I’m going to be a father.  Last week I got to see my kid for the first time, swimming away like some sea monkey – though he looked completely human.  And yes, it has my prominent nose.  It truly was amazing to just sit there and watch this little life moving around, and to know that somehow I created that.  

Another thing I’ve always felt I help create was Evil Avatar.com.  Or at least, the way it stands today I helped create it.  That all came crashing down as of yesterday as I announced my departure from the site.  With the aforementioned fatherhood and the success of Co-Optimus I knew I wouldn’t be able to devote my time to both sites.  There were other issues involved with this decision, and this caused a handful of other staff members to leave as well; my departure as sort of a spring board.  With that they created a new site called ColonyOfGamers.  I promised and have helped to get it off the ground, as I felt it was something of my responsiblity.  What I didn’t expect was such a huge following so quickly as a couple hundred members joined the site in only a few hours.  Not only that but more staff from EvAv seemed to follow.   

It’ll be interesting to see what happens next, and it feels weird to not be “part of EvilAvatar.com.”  I put so much time and money and effort into that site to see it literally all be wiped away in an instant breaks my heart.  But I guess that sort of explains part of the reason for leaving, as much as I thought I had control, I never really did.

It’s Friday, that can only mean one thing. Evil Avatar Radio! But alas, during all the shuffle last week with the server outages and whatnot, you may or may not know that the last Friday show of EvAv Radio was broadcast last week.

That’s right, Evil Avatar Radio hosted by Philip “Kefkataran” Kollar is no more. No more late Friday nights in the chatroom listening to Phil and Amanda talk about Draygons and Horse Carcass. Phil is moving sidways and taking on more responsibilities at 1UP.

Fear not Evil Avatarians! Our newest Red and host of In-Game Chat, Scott “Psykoboy2” Benton has picked up the reins of said horse carcass and rode it, and the Evil Avatar Radio name, to Monday nights.

So what ever shall we do on Fridays? Us gamers SURELY can’t go OUT. We definitely can’t be social in public. So instead I bring to you, EvAv Arcade Fridays!

What is it? Every Friday night starting at 10PM Eastern we’ll be playing some specific games over Xbox Live and Playstation Network with the Evil Avatar Community.

So this week we’ll have 4 games lined up to play:
Bomberman Live (XBLA)
Carcassone(XBLA)
Spyglass Board Games (XBLA)
Calling All Cars (PSN)

I’ll be keeping the chatroom up, so if you need to try to get in a game, be sure to head over there and ask around. I encourage people to use it, or even just hang out on Friday organzing ANY kind of gaming activity.

Episode 67 of Evil Avatar Radio will be recorded LIVE tonight, and you can tune in and participate. Just head on over to THIS LINK and start streaming the radio station. The show will run for two hours starting at 10:00 PM central.

Kicking off with news tonight, special guest-hosted by EvAv Editor-in-Chief bapenguin. We’ll be hitting all the big topics from this week in video game news. After that we’ll open up the phone lines so you can call in and join us for game releases and discussion of tonight’s theme: Best Video Game Endings! Spoiler alert!
There are three simple ways to participate in the show, even when Evil Avatar is down. First, toss e-mails to evilavatarnews@gmail.com at any time to get them read on air. You should be sure to join us in the Evil Avatar chat room for great discussion throughout. And you can call in any time after our news segment by dialing 320-589-6355.

All this AND a surprise twist ending! Don’t miss the fun!

I just got word from the big man that we are officially moving to a new host.

All I can say is…thank fucking god.

Yes we are down. Yes we planned to be down tonight. No this outage is not the result of the planned outage. Talk about ironic.

Updates as they become available.

Update 7/27/2007 @ 8:11AM EST: Our hosting provider is being a bitch as usual. We still aren’t up. It looks like we are finally going to jump ship to another provider.