Boston Blotter: Not-So-Much Joystick

--The guy who threatened another Virginia Tech because he got dumped has been arraigned. Andrew Rosenblum must stay at his parents' home in Needham, and he has to wear a GPS monitoring device. BU and Wheelock College, the school that the recipients of his threatening e-mail attended, have banned him from their campuses.

His lawyer called him an "immature young man." Indeed.

Rosenblum is getting attention not just because he did something incredibly stupid. He is the host of a video-game review show called "GameLife" on MTV Overdrive.

To add insult to injury, Wired, which has the similarly named "Game | Life" blog, wrote,
I'm wondering if this incident is going to finally end the confusion between Game|Life the Wired blog and "GameLife" the painful Web show, or whether now instead of people looking at my business card and saying, "The one with the kids?" they go "The one with the kid that threatened to shoot up BU?"

Rosenblum had been interviewed with his fellow GameLife cohosts for the Boston Phoenix. The article describes him as, well, the stereotypical gamer: "Andrew Rosenblum is short and round, and his glasses seem, ever so slightly, to enlarge his eyeballs. He speaks haltingly in a nasal voice, and when he laughs especially hard he doubles over in small convulsions."

Only now he's a stereotypical gamer with some mighty big problems.

--Donuts go with coffee, maybe milk. But donuts definitely don't go with Christian Brothers Brandy. Some guy sucked down so much booze in a South End Dunkin Donuts (no word on which donut he preferred) that he threatened another customer. Officers noted the presence of the Christian Brothers and promptly took the guy in Drinking in Public.

--A 19-year-old Plymouth soldier who was being trained for Iraq died during a training exercise in Kentucky. The Globe reports, "On Wednesday, while taking part in a live-ammunition, room-clearing exercise at Fort Campbell in Kentucky, King was shot by a fellow soldier, his father said. King was wearing a protective Kevlar vest but died shortly afterward at a nearby hospital." There are no details as of yet as to why the incident happened.

All charges alleged until proven under law. Image of a joystick from Amazon. Image of a joystick from atarimagazines.com.