Muskrat Ramblings

There seems to be some confusion about my upcoming schedule, so here’s the latest word, as updated at the Events section: SPIEL Thursday, October 13, 2005 – Sunday, October 16, 2005 Essen, Germany I’ve been invited by the good folks at Pegasus Publishing, so look for their booth! International Exhibit of Comics and Games Saturday, […]

Holy Elder Gods! Animated Culty Cthulhu Covalicky goodness! Check this OUT! “Sinestros Cultistas” indeed. 🙂 Pardon me for freaking out, but the Spanish version of Creatures and Cultists looks like it will be AWESOME! With luck, when the US version is reprinted, some of the Spanish box templates and layours can be used! I’ve never […]

Lou Zocchi was missing in the post-Katrina chaos. Rick Loomis just got word from Lou’s daughter that they have heard from him, and he is safe in Alabama. No more is known, but that’s relief enough for the moment. For those who may be too young to know, Lous was called one of the “grand […]

The Mud Bay Slackers are here! This is my first foray into Fantasy Football (American style), so I’m hoping that I don’t do too embarrassingly poorly. Overall, I like the look of the team following the draft. I’m in the ten-team Beefy Cheesehead League. Save for Rothlisbureger and the defense (both sentimental favorites I wanted […]

Sobering thought for a day full of sobering thoughts and images. Highway 90, which passes by Madison, disappears under the water, beneath the now all-encompasing bayou, between the levees broken like a backbone, somewhere outside the remains of that most glorious city, New Orleans. Somewhere, an entire major metropolitan areas has been – for all […]

Actor Michael Sheard, of Grange Hill, Dr. Who and Star Wars fame, has passed away at the age of 65 at his home in the Isle of Wight. I fear I only had the honor of meeting him once, at CONvergence 2003. But I could easily see how he became beloved in the eyes of […]

Hard to believe that if I can keep to anything resembling a schedule, there’ll be 500 Dork Towers up soon. Actually, I just checked. As I numbered the Interactive Week cartoons differently, there already are more than 500, by far.But these are the “Made for the Web Only” ‘toons I’m talking about. So…counting down to […]

Sorry I didn’t post this sooner: I’ll be appearing at the 25th Birthday Celebrations for Pegasus Games (aka “Pegasaurus Games,” in Dork Tower) from noon-2 pm both Saturday and Sunday. (Actually, I’ll most likely be there much longer. But those are my “official” times). I’ll be running tons of Out of the Box games, with […]

That promised non-Mallards coolness: **** The Great Luke Ski is releasing his latest CD at GenCon: “unCONVENTIONal.” Some yutz did the cover art for him. Luke wanted me to rap with him on one track (it’ll be very easy to tell which one, once you get the CD). Events, and my massive work schedule, conspired […]

The Fifth annual Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming ceremony/party was held Wednesday evening in Indianapolis. For 2005, the committee’s shortlist was: CODE OF UNARIS (role-playing game designed by Gary Pratt, published by Goldleaf Games) Code of Unaris is the first Internet ‘Chat’ role-playing game to use the medium, instead of just being in […]