Mort Künstler, 1927-2025. Check out the period clothing in the background. Mort Künstler is a name you may not recognize, but he was quite successful. He was born in Brooklyn, and studied art at Pratt Institute. Künstler's first sale. He made his first sale (not sail) while still at school, to Motor Boating magazine (cover, … Continue reading Artist Retrospectives XXIX – Mort Künstler
Subtle reference to my 2025 personal retrospective post. Note: WordPress tells me that I created this blog sixteen years ago today. That's insane. Wow, looking at my notes a lot happened in the world of gaming in 2025. First of all, we lost some folks. Dungeons & Dragons author Gary Gygax' eldest child passes away … Continue reading Part Sixty-Two: 2025, I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire. A Historical Overview of Role-playing from the Trenches
May you have an interesting year. As we embark on a new year it's time for a look back. Last year was certainly interesting. In any case it beats the alternative. We got off to a roaring start here in Los Angeles with what became known as the Palisades Fire. At one point my block … Continue reading That Was the Year That Was, My Personal 2025 Retrospective
The latest in the Fallout universe. By the fans. Are you a fan of Fallout? Interplay's Fallout. Isometric third-person top-down, baby. BTW that's my favorite gun. Debuting in 1997 as a top-down, turn-based role-playing game for PC from Interplay, by 2008 it was under new company Bethesda. They switched Fallout to more of an Elder … Continue reading Review: Fallout London
I appear to be on an alternate-history binge. Today's novel is from 1953, and asks the question "What if the Confederacy won the Civil War?" Not an uncommon topic. The American Civil War has fascinated people for years. Historians, authors, filmmakers, re-enactors and wargamers have all spent countless hours reading about the events and pondering. … Continue reading Review: Bring the Jubilee, by Ward Moore
Olga Jankowska And with this final chapter we're past the music era that I love the best, the 1960s-1970s. You'll see that the number of songs I think are truly outstanding peter out the further down the timeline we go. Why? If you want to go ahead and blame it on my age, knock yourself … Continue reading 4. The Greatest Songs of All Time
Did you enjoy Warhammer's The Vampire Genevieve? She was the creation of British author Kim Newman, writing under the pen-name Jack Yeovil for Games Workshop. The first novel was published in 1989, and Genevieve was destined to appear in more Warhammer fiction over the years. Newman "cloned" her for his 1992 non-Warhammer novel, Anno Dracula. … Continue reading Review: Anno Dracula, by Kim Newman
Illustration by Frank Frazetta (see my Artist Retrospectives). Another horror movie I watched for the Halloween season this year was 1967's The Fearless Vampire Killers. That was the title of the US release; in other parts of the world it was called Dance of the Vampires. It's a vampire movie that starts out very slow. … Continue reading Review: The Fearless Vampire Killers, aka Dance of the Vampires
And now from the elegant pump room of the magnificent Palmer house high over Chicago, asking that musical question... No wait, wrong prompt card. We here at The Michlin Guide have been nominated for a Sunshine Blogger Award! Yay! Virginie at The Wonderful World of Cinema made the nomination and for that we are eternally … Continue reading The Sunshine Blogger Award
This cover by Leo and Diane Dillon, who were featured in my Artist Retrospective series. To be a boy, a boy, not a man, not an old man, but a boy. I remember. — me Halloween just passed (giggle) and as is my wont since it's my favorite holiday, I indulged my peculiar tastes. I … Continue reading Review: The Halloween Tree, by Ray Bradbury
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