Ken Newquist The SlaveMaster e-mail has returned to stalk the Internet, this time donning the persona of “MonkeyMan935” in an attempt to scare uninformed men and women. Like its predecessor, the MonkeyMan935 e-mail is a hoax. To date, we’ve captured two versions of the new hoax: Date Captured: Nov. 6, 2002 The state Police are warning all … Read more
With my Thanksgiving editorial, I urged people to piss off a liberal and buy something on Black Friday. And amazingly enough, it worked! In an e-mail succinctly entitled Go To Hell Kenneth an irate reader took me to task for my editorial. The e-mail wasn’t signed, so I don’t know who wrote it (and to … Read more
Once some fans encounter J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth, they never truly leave it, choosing instead to keep exploring the myriad, mystical depths of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. The rest of us though, could use some help staying in touch with the land of Frodo. The Guide to Middle Earth 2003 calendar does exactly that.’,NULL,8,NULL,’ … Read more
Why buy the world a Coke, when you can just forward an e-mail? That question’s at the heart of an e-mail hoax that promises free cola for fowarding a certain e-mail around the Net. Here’s the original e-mail: Date Captured: April 17, 2000 Subject: FREE COCA COLA FOR A MONTH Coca-Cola is offering four free … Read more
Well, it’s official. I’m 31. Doesn’t seem all that different from 30, aside from that whole “one year older” thing, and even that’s not a big deal. I may be a year older, but I’m also a year closer to where I want to be … and who I want to be. Aside from the … Read more
After years of talking about it, we finally ran our first game of Fading Suns last week. It was a Wednesday night session run by one of the guys in my gaming group, Damon Agretto, in his first outing as a game master for the group, and it went pretty damn well. We’re using the … Read more
An e-mail claiming to be raising money to save a kid dying of brain cancer claims you don’t have a heart if you delete the message (no doubt it will have been stolen by a rampaging band of kidney thieves looking to branch out into new markets). A later version, captured in December, includes a … Read more
When I was a kid, I told an outrageous lie: that my grade school principal was going to pay me .25 cents for each piece of garbage I picked up at the school. My parents immediately saw it for the fiction that it was. Unfortunately, people on the net aren’t quite so observant when it … Read more
When I was a kid, I used to fantasize about trains. Specifically HO-scale model trains, the kind that the truly talented can use to create massively-detailed miniature worlds, and which I used as a mode of transportation for my G.I. Joe guys (not to mention as a timely plot device for rescuing Scarlett from danger … Read more
I’ve noticed a few changes in myself since Sue got pregnant which my wife ascribes to a combination of surging testosterone and nesting instinct. I’ve found myself with a growing desire for an honest-to-God work bench, an admiration of power tools, and a hankering to watching professional football. As a result, I went out and … Read more