Dapper Criminal

Looking at this picture of this kid and you think, what the heck? This kid is sitting for a mug shot and facing a few months hard labor for stealing some shirts. Dirt poor, probably living in some tenement flat, or underneath one more the like, maybe a family, but dirt poor, crowded in a small space. He skips school and hangs out on the street raising a little ruckus.

But still he looks dapper as hell. 16, a long time tenant of the prisons, real name James Dooneley, but already has an alias as James Darley.

In the gilded age being cool was required.  More here.

Daily Cosplay

Daily Cosplay (Davis)

Dress for the Season

Its that time of year again. The season is changing. Cold creeping in on the western winds, pushing down from the north. Snow is in the offing and there are promises of a long hard winter to come.

So you must be ready!

DRESS LIKE A VIKING!

The tunics are warm, made of wool and a bit water resistant. By a bit I mean not really at all.

That hats are fashionable and the leggings cling to your legs unlike socks that constantly slide down into your boots and gang up on your arch and heel.

Plus they can be mismatched and no one cares.

Tired of your jacket choking off your movement? Can't bend your arms? Leave it all behind. Get a cloak! Not only does it offer complete freedom of movement, it cleans the snowy path behind you and hide your tracks

Good for women too! great floor length dresses and tunics!

         

And you can accessorize the whole ensemble. You can carry knives, spears, axes, spears, shields and other various and sundries.

MAKE YOUR OWN TODAY!

Theorems

Famous theories that popular culture and the internet (which is largely the same thing I suspect) think are proven.

The Big Bang. This theory postulates that the universe began in a very dense and hot state, when for reasons not understood it exploded outward. All the matter and antimatter hurling through the Void. Sort of like the All Father's Arc of Time theory . . . wait that last part is in the world of Aihrde. But regardless it is a theory. Places the universe at about 14 billion years old, which just seems . . . odd. the Big Bang explains lots of observable phenomena, but still has not been proven.

KT Extinction. This is the theory that the dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid striking the earth, causing either a global-killing fire storm (what Gary Gygax called the Rain of Colorless Fire) or since the theories of global warming have become dominate in modern discussions that the impact caused some type of atmospheric change. I never could figure out why the birds and the tiny mammals survived this event.

At any rate when you read articles that begin with "during the big bang" or "the KT extinction event caused" never forget they are theories only.

Much like TLG's production schedule. In theory . . . .

Ison To the Sun

The comet ISON is headed to the sun, or at least for a quick fly by, the unlucky traveler is headed a bit too close to Ra's eye and may not actually survive to return to the Oort cloud from which he came. He'll be passing by pretty closely on November 28th.

This photo by photographer, Adam Block. Pretty damn sweet!

Armor Up (Ulrik)

David Karaikal Rodriguez

Word of the Day -- Hawkshaw

A hawkshaw is a detective -- If you're a fan of mystery writing, you may have a favorite fictional detective. Perhaps it's Hercule Poirot (created by Agatha Christie), Lord Peter Wimsey (created by Dorothy L. Sayers), or Mike Hammer (created by Mickey Spillane). These and other famous sleuths from the mystery genre follow in the tradition of a fictional detective from the 19th century: Hawkshaw, a theatrical gumshoe introduced in the 1863 play The Ticket of Leave Man by British dramatist Tom Taylor. "Hawkshaw" gained further popularity as a general term for a detective when the name was used for a character in a comic strip by American cartoonist Gus Mager.

Frazetta

Movie Trailer ~ Hercules

Hmm I think we are mixing a little Roman into the Greek here.

In the Eye of Ra (er the sun)