Muskrat Ramblings

Re: the last Unspeakable Oaf cartoon…the “Holy Grail” one. The monster features was a Grell, an old D&D creature that’s not so popular these days, apparently. Can you say “Fiend Folio”? Anyway, it was a darn fine drawing of a Grell, if I do say so myself. But I decided to put up the editorial […]

The lovely and talented Judith and I spent Christmas Up North, with my in-laws. As a result of leaving Madison early to avoid a snowstorm that never materialized, and a friend’s birthday on Boxing Day, we never actually got to open our presents to each other, which are still under the tree. We’re trying to […]

From my childhood in England: Good King Wenceslas looked out On the Feast of Stephen; When a snowball hit his snout, And made it look uneven. Brightly shone his conk that night Though the pain was cruel, Til a doctor came in sight, Riding on a mule! Exciting conclusion to the “It’s a Wonderful Strife” […]

From today’s Cincinnati Enquirer: Take a turn at board games Thursday, December 22, 2005 Time’s a ticking and if you’re still empty-handed, snap up a board or card game for the party crowd. For expert advice we called Marilyn Shore, who owns the Boardwalk Hobby Shop on Mount Lookout Square with husband Mike. Her two […]

Today’s cartoon is actually Monday’s cartoon, and is now up. Cartoons will run Wednesday, Thursday and Friday this week, as the current storyline winds down… I’ll try and have Thursday and Friday’s cartoons up early their respective mornings. **** Amazingly, I’m still only a game behind first in the Mud Bay Pro Football Pick’Em league. […]

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 […]