Muskrat Ramblings

There’s one last Mallards game. In Madison, that is. As the Mallards web site puts it: Mallards Set For One Night Stand Your Madison Mallards will return to the Duck Pond for their final home game of the 2005 season Friday, August 19th at 7:05 vs. the Thunder Bay Border Cats for the first game […]

The Madison Mallards beat the Rochester Honkers 6-2 last night, to take game one of the best of three North Woods League southern division championship series. It was a great game to watch. Madison had lost seven of the regular season’s eight games played against Rochester, but the team was well-prepared for the first playoff […]

Melissa Kearcher, she of Dr. Blink coloring brilliance, noted that she and Chris Jone were discusssing their takes on a potential Dr. Blink movie: Cajones maintains that Dr. Blink should be played by Bill Murray. While I think that is an admirable choice, I say that Blink should definitely be played by Rick Moranis. (I […]

PRESS RELEASE TO ALL MEDIA FIFTH DIANA JONES AWARD SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED Annual award ‘for Excellence in Gaming’ to be presented 17th August London, 2nd August — After much debate, the shortlist for the fifth annual Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming has been announced. The award is given to whatever the Diana Jones Award […]

The proofs for Go, Dork! Go! just came in. I sent the corrections off to Art Gawd Hal Mangold, so there’s a good chance it’ll be out at GenCon. ***** Super Munchkin came in, should be in stores now, and will definitely be at GenCon. **** Alas, alack, I will not be at GenCon. There […]

There is good news on many a front. In Spain, the Dork Tower website en Espanol is up and running. There’s also a sidebar interview with me, with some really interesting questions from Spanish gamers. I’ll try and post that in English on Monday. ***** Also from Spain, La Factoria De Ideas/Distrimagen will be switching […]

I interviewed James Doohan once, when I was a writer for the Wisconsin State Journal, and it was a delight. Absolutely one of my favorite interviews of all time. Right up there with Andy Partridge, of XTC, Billy Bragg and Dave Sim. Much of the phoner was devoted to things I’d never known about Mr. […]

Once more, FTP problems are keeping new cartoons from being posted. I apologize for this, and am trying my darndest to find out what the problem is. As soon as the host lets ME know, I’ll let you know. ***** Dork Tower #31 and Dr. Blink #2 are in some stores now. They should be […]

Did I promise “More on Snopes”? OK. Here we go. I briefly made it into Snopes.com. Now, before I say anything, I do like Snopes a great deal. That and the alt.folklore.legends page are must-reads for anybody, before they forward another bogus (and they mostly all are) “you’ll never believe this really happened” message to, […]

Absolutely great to have discovered that Chris Pramas, one of my favorite people, like, EVAR, is now on LJ, at freeport_pirate. Also, he put this meme in my mind. List 5 of your current favorite songs (no order), and then tag 6 of your LJ friends to do the same. Now, tagging 6 LJ pals […]