This is just too frakking cool. Apologies for my lack of formatting-fu: you may want to click through to YouTube for best effect. And giant props to Jessica Stover (of the very cool Artemis Eternal for totally making my day! John
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This is just too frakking cool. Apologies for my lack of formatting-fu: you may want to click through to YouTube for best effect. And giant props to Jessica Stover (of the very cool Artemis Eternal for totally making my day! John
Look! Look! An actual Big Announcement (t)! As of this coming Monday, Dec 21, Dork Tower will be running here and at the Wired.com blog, GeekDad! Here’s the announcement from GeekDad editor Ken Denmead: ************************** It still amazes me when cool stuff like this happens to us, but I’m not one to look a gift-muskrat […]
OK, a couple big things happened last week, not least of which was a hard drive crash on my laptop. Between that and the blizzard that hit the midwest, it essentially wiped out another work week. Fortunately, it seems (fingers crossed) as if all of my data was backed up. But getting everything back on […]
Did you watch “A Charlie Brown Christmas” last Tuesday night, and think it seemed a bit…shorter than usual? Well, it was. And my friend Leon puts this into word far better than I could have. Please pass on, share, and enjoy. TO: ABC FROM: Leon Lynn RE: Desecration of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” 12/8/09 Dear […]
A few years ago, I read a few very good, very geeky books: “Achtung, Scweinhund,” by Harry Pearson; “The Elfish Gene” by Mark Barrowcliffe, and “Game Night,” by Jonny Nexus, On Monday 16th November, Jonny Nexus embarked on a project to publish the entire text of his ENnie award nominated roleplaying novel Game Night on […]
A new England baseball team chooses its name and mascot… From the Laconia (New Hampshire) Citizen: By GAIL OBER gober@citizen.com Saturday, November 14, 2009 The name of the city’s new collegiate baseball team is the Laconia Muskrats. Chosen by owners Noah and Jonathan Crane after getting about 500 suggestions, Noah Crane said Friday they chose […]
If you’re at Lucca this week, in Italy…here’s my signing schedule. The “Area Performance” is live painting (where I’ll be coming up with something for the charity auction – more Boobies, perhaps?) I’m not sure what I’ll be yakking about, yet, for the Sunday talk, but I’m sure it’ll be, um, riveting: Thursday. 11.00-12.00: Autographs […]
…wasn’t just Woodstock, or a really, really bad Bryan Adams song. Alas alack, it took my friend Jape to point this out to me: “In all the celebratory hyperbole over Woodstock’s 40th Anniversary, people are missing the other seminal event that happen 4 decades ago this week: Gen Con II, when Gary Gygax first met […]
I’d like to offer absolutely huge thanks Weregeek’s Alina Pete for this week’s guest strips here at Dorktower.com. Last Thursday, the Lovely and talented Judith, Louisa (henceforth known as “the Bean”) and I moved house. Since Chez Muskrat was the house I’ve occupied for the last 20 years (the last 15 of them with Judith; […]
Things I obsess about so that you don’t have to: the relative strengths, weaknesses and punchline-ic comedic differences between “Gaimanda,” “Neimanda,” “Neilanda,” “Amaneil,” “Gaimer” and “Palman.” Well, maybe not “Palman.” That just sounds dirty. Indecision. I haz it. **** Holy carp! I won first place for editorial cartoons in the National Newspaper Association Better Newspapers […]
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