Former child actor Wil Wheaton hosts a YouTube show called Tabletop. The show features Wheaton and three or four guests playing a board game, the type of specialty board game one might buy at a specialty game store. In the videos, you see Wheaton and his guests, usually D-list celebrities, playing the game, presumably correctly. …
Today is Memorial Day, the one day a year we officially recognize the ultimate sacrifice many, too many, military men and women paid in service to our country. I spent over nine years in the United States Air Force, and in that time, I personally knew only one person who paid that ultimate price. His …
I’ve been listening to a really fantastic history podcast, Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History. The most recent episode is Ghosts of the Ostfront II. It is the second part of a show that deals with what the Russians refer to as The Great Patriotic War, the theatre of war between the German Third Reich and the …
This illustration depicts aircraft B-52G 0248. Although the image is too small to read clearly, the nose art shows the nickname “In Harms [sic] Way.” Back in 1991, on the first night of Operation Desert Storm, an F-4G Wild Weasel fired an AGM-88 HARM anti-radiation missile at B-52G 0248. The Wild Weasel crew mistook the …
This morning I found yet another email from comic book artist Brian Bolland concerning the whole issue surrounding my blog post over two months ago about a sketch he did at the 2007 New York City Comic-Con. The email basically contradicts everything he has said about this matter up until now. He is now saying …
This morning I found an email in my inbox from Christopher M. Caira, an attorney claiming to represent comic book artist Brian Bolland. The return email address, along with his signature, shows that he is from the Chicago law firm Klafter & Burke. Their website shows they specialize in real estate and taxes. Evidently, they …