Midnight is the "Gamer Spotlight" on the "Inside XBOX" blade on your XBOX 360 console.  Way to go Midnight.

In a shamelessly selfish plug, I'd like to direct you to this week's Xbox.com gamer spotlight where Trixie interviews me about such gaming related topics as Filipino food, cleaning public highways, and that wuss with the power of "heart" from Captain Planet.

Action from the Hushed Casket 5th Anniversary LAN

It’s 10 PM on Saturday night, October 6th. The temperature is 81 degrees Fahrenheit, but my central A/C unit has been running non-stop since noon. There are 38 people in my house playing Halo 3 multiplayer in four separate games on 26 Xbox 360s, most of them connected to high definition displays. In my office sits five gamers I’ve never met. Two exhausted gamers sleep in my living room amidst the commotion. My electrical meter spins like God’s own anti-son-of-a-bitch machine. This must be the THX 5th Birthday LAN.

Hushed Casket co-founder Midnight is writing again for the New York Times. Since the NYT recently stopped charging for access to certain parts of their website, you can read his writings for free without registration. He is participating in a group blog called "Home Fires" that covers life after deployment. He doesn't have a new piece up yet, but check this URL for his writings:

http://homefires.blogs.nytimes.com/

As always, you can read his personal blog at:

http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/

And you can view some of his old writings (that used to be subscription only) while he was deployed on the Frontlines blog:

http://frontlines.blogs.nytimes.com/

For details and registration, go here: http://hushedcasket.com/node/2235