Category: Muskrat Ramblings

From Yahoo News, last Friday. Hadn’t heard about this until now. Where was I? Most likely drinking heavily. Or something. Hackers, Extortion threats Shut Down Game Site Ryan Naraine – eWEEK Fri Dec 16, 2:31 PM ET White Wolf Publishing Inc., a company responsible for some of the most popular role-playing game brands, has shut […]

The Mud Bay Slackers are one game behind the leaders in the Mud Bay Pro Football Pick’Em league, with a record of 142 correct picks and 66 incorrect picks. It’s been a close race all season. The Slackers led from weeks one to ten or so, at one point boasting a three-game lead. Then too […]

Dec. 12, 2005 EDITORIAL CARTOONISTS LAUNCH “BLACK INK MONDAY” TO PROTEST INDUSTRY LAYOFFS Today is Black Ink Monday. Nearly 100 editorial cartoonists from the U.S. and Canada are protesting drastic cutbacks in the newspaper industry the best way they know how — by mocking the perpetrators. The results are now online at editorialcartoonists.com. Since Ben […]

Fifteen years ago, today, some writer for a local newspaper penned the following. He was kind of young, when he wrote it. And a lot of stuff he cranked out in those days was pretty bogus. He was sorta full of himself then, you know. But he tried. Anyway, this piece wasn’t so bad…I can […]

My guess is that one or two people follow this LJ to get actual, you know, like, news about releases and such. So here we go. In this biz, news doesn’t get much bigger than this. The Toy Industry Association has named Apples to Apples as a nominee for Toy of the Year, in the […]

Press Release: Black Ink Monday EDITORIAL CARTOONISTS ANNOUNCE “BLACK INK MONDAY” TO PROTEST INDUSTRY LAYOFFS Since Ben Franklin and colonial times, the editorial cartoon has been one of the most visible and popular parts of the daily paper. However, recent changes within the newsp Over the last 20 years, the number of cartoonists on the […]

Today’s cartoon was shamelessly late. Sorry. Support your friendly local gaming stores. Give the gift of gaming! EDIT: This cartoon is not trying to say people need to buy things they can’t afford, or take food off their tables. But I try to make sure some of my cash always goes to the local stores. […]

Today’s comic was late. Sorry ’bout that. I’m trying real hard to get at least three ‘toons up again, per week, now that I’m home again for a bit. Fingers (all three of ’em) crossed. **** I am converting a Warhammer conquistador unit I bought a while ago into a Mordheim band, for a Lustrian […]

One of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen on the face of this earth — right up there with the Grand Canyon and il Duomo in Florence — is St. Basil’s cathedral in Moscow. What it lacks in size it makes up for in an indefinable “surely nobody could have built THAT” quality. I […]