As we mentioned recently, while Stuntmutt is in Barbados, enjoying his honeymoon, we’ve got a whole series of ‘celebrity’ fill-ins for One One Se7en… the very first strip comes from Frankie. As might be expected, Mister Chief makes an appearance.

MaritalBlaze54 recreated a video originally done by Snow Globe Productions – a music video set to Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Crosstown Traffic’. (I never saw the original, and Snow Globe’s website is currently offline.) This version is quite nicely done – great syncing, great clip choices. Great song. Go watch, and listen – the MPRRS said to. WMP9 version is 33.7 mb, QuickTime version is 32.8 mb. Update: Turtle Mann, of Snow Globe, sent along a link to the original video, if you want to compare.

Paul Davies has caught the front-page bug. After five straight days of new artwork from him last week, we missed a ‘Paul Davies’ post yesterday… so today, he sent along a really nice remix of ‘Heretic, Hero’, from the Halo 2 Soundtrack Volume 1. Multitalented, that guy is! Go listen (mp3, 2.9 mb).

Elnea’s done some bizarre parodies in her day… but ‘Pwn My Heart’ has got to be up there. I ran across this in a recent journal of hers over at Red vs Blue; it was written for a machinima piece we helped host a few months ago, but I never really noticed it there. It’s a full-on Country and Western flavored Halo tune – the lyrics will make you groan. (Like Stuntmutt does.) You can listen to it while you read its history and lyrics on her .Mac space, or you can just grab the mp3 from us (2.7 mb). As usual, if we do any damage to her bandwidth, we’ll be happy to host the full page.

Jillybean found a few tidbits that whet her fancy in the Story Page mailbag/forum pool – go see what she’s brought you!

The man will never stop looking for Megabattle goodness. Rockslider has written up yet another possibility for 35+ enemy action on Truth and Reconciliation; it’s during the setup for his last find, the Dustbowl Megabattle, and it sounds like fun. Give it a read!

Stephen Loftus has snapped a couple of photos of the latest progress on his In Amber Clad model – it’s looking pretty nice! His forum post points to his personal website, or you can check it out in the local version here.

Jester submitted his fourth montage to our MPRRS – and they liked it. Heavy on the effects, but some great gameplay. Grab a copy in either WMP9 format (60.1 mb) or QuickTime format (64.2 mb), and enjoy!

MLG Dallas is all over but the crying… the overall winners aren’t any real surprise (Final Boss took the 4v4, and the top 4 1v1 placers are all highly-known names), but as 3Suns points out, it’s nice to see the money spread out amongst the top 8 this time around. Full brackets are here.

DropShock Episode 16 is out, focusing almost entirely on Halo 3. It’s a biggie…

Press Start to Play seems to be revisiting Halo quite a bit, now that the Halo 3 trailer is out – Friday’s strip was Halo-related again. Thanks, Spec ops Grunt.

The awards continue to roll in; Voodoo Extreme has posted its Best of E3 Awards, and Halo 3 stole ‘Best Movie’ away from Metal Gear Solid 4. Nice! Thanks, Apache.

Heh – Funkmon got his new HBO shirt onto a TV broadcast of yesterday’s Detroit Tigers game… anyone got a tape?

We’ve posted a larger version of Theo Prins’ ‘Duck and Cover‘, the image he created for our t-shirt raffle. I just LOVE that style. He has a bright future ahead of him…

Gah – Friday was so crazy I forgot Fan Fiction again, and Saturday… wasn’t much better. Here is the collection for the week – 31 pieces (though an awful lot of them are short poems by a single submitter…).

Yesterday, we added a larger-than-the-contest-thumb version of Bryn Casey’s beautiful ‘The Guardians’ to his Gallery page – we need to do the same with the other artists who submitted new work for our t-shirt raffle. I’m going to start with Paul Davies’ ‘Arbiter‘, because, well, we’ve had a new image of his every day for the past three days – seems like a silly time to kill the streak. Plus, it’s an astounding image that everyone should get a better look at.

Gah – nearly forgot. Mintz pointed out that Halo Portable is back up and running after a short hiatus – check out what’s coming (as well as some new wallpaper).

Two years ago, Lorraine McLees spent a good chunk of her time at the Bungie E3 Fanfest drawing on-the-spot graphics for raffle winners (and, accidentally, for me) – we posted a note about one of the images she did, for Eric Good, last year… and this weekend, Cunbelin dug out and sent along his own image, another very cool sketch whipped out in minutes by a master. Check it out! (One of these days, we’ll have to put together a gallery for these; I’m sure there are more out there.)