Daily Cosplay (Viking Maiden)

Mimir's Well

I sat outside alone; the old one came,

The lord of the Aesir, and looked into my face:

"Why have you come here? What would you ask me?

I know, Odin, how you lost your eye:

It lies in the water of Mimir's well."

Every morning Mimir drinks mead

From Warfather's Tribute. See you wisdom still?

Coming Soon: The Codex Nordica

Remnants of the Maul?

Archeologists have unearthed a 2500 year old cellar in Bulgaria. Apparently the cellar belonged to part of a house that was torn down some very long time ago and another structure built on top of it and so on down through the ages. It contained some 30 odd amphorae in stunningly good shape. It would seem the cellar had not been opened in all these many years.

These jars were used by the Greeks to carry wine, olive oil and other such liquid sundries.

This is pretty close to ancient Cimmeria, which lay upon the Black Sea in the southern Ukraine.

It no doubt belonged to a tavern on the Maul where young Cimmerians caroused in his ever present quest for adventure! glory! gold! and booty!

"In the Maul they could carouse and roar as they liked, for honest people shunned the quarters, and watchmen, well paid with stained coins, did not interfere with their sport. Along the cooked unpaved streets with their heaps of refuse and sloppy puddles, drunken roisterers staggered, roaring. Steel glinted in the shadows where wolf preyed on world . . .

Robert E. Howard, Tower of the Elephant.

World's Worst Superhero

I want this as my super power.

Armor Up (Teutonic Knight)

Utterly beyond Awesome!

Michael Volquarts

At Land's End

Stan Lee Rants!

I have to agree. Can't find much value in 3d, other than its two sets of glasses and can smear the copious amounts of popcorn butter on!

Black Dragon Fish, er Alien?

Word of the Day -- Musket

Musket -- a heavy large caliber muzzle-loading usually smoothbore shoulder firearm.  In general terms, a shoulder gun carried by infantry.

In the early era of firearms, cannons of lesser size such as the falconet were sometimes named for birds of prey. Following this pattern, Italians applied "moschetto" or "moschetta," meaning "sparrow hawk," to a small-caliber piece of ordnance in the 16th century. Spaniards borrowed this word as "mosquete" and the French as "mosquet," but applied it to a heavy shoulder firearm rather than a cannon; English "musket" was borrowed soon thereafter from French. The word "musket" was retained after the original matchlock firing mechanism was replaced by a wheel lock, and the wheel lock by the flintlock. As the practice of rifling firearms—incising the barrel with spiral grooves to improve the bullet's accuracy—became more common, "musket" gradually gave way to the newer word "rifle" in the 18th and 19th centuries.

In the early era of firearms, cannons of lesser size such as the falconet were sometimes named for birds of prey. Following this pattern, Italians applied "moschetto" or "moschetta," meaning "sparrow hawk," to a small-caliber piece of ordnance in the 16th century. Spaniards borrowed this word as "mosquete" and the French as "mosquet," but applied it to a heavy shoulder firearm rather than a cannon; English "musket" was borrowed soon thereafter from French. The word "musket" was retained after the original matchlock firing mechanism was replaced by a wheel lock, and the wheel lock by the flintlock. As the practice of rifling firearms—incising the barrel with spiral grooves to improve the bullet's accuracy—became more common, "musket" gradually gave way to the newer word "rifle" in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Read more at http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2013/10/14/#zIm0krsi04tgohd3.99

a heavy large-caliber muzzle-loading usually smoothbore shoulder firearm; broadly : a shoulder gun carried by infantry
Read more at http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2013/10/14/#zIm0krsi04tgohd3.99a

a heavy large-caliber muzzle-loading usually smoothbore shoulder firearm; broadly : a shoulder gun carried by infantry
Read more at http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2013/10/14/#zIm0krsi04tgohd3.99

a heavy large-caliber muzzle-loading usually smoothbore shoulder firearm; broadly : a shoulder gun carried by infantry
Read more at http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2013/10/14/#zIm0krsi04tgohd3.99

a heavy large-caliber muzzle-loading usually smoothbore shoulder firearm; broadly : a shoulder gun carried by infantry
Read more at http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2013/10/14/#zIm0krsi04tgohd3.99

a heavy large-caliber muzzle-loading usually smoothbore shoulder firearm; broadly : a shoulder gun carried by infantry
Read more at http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2013/10/14/#zIm0krsi04tgohd3.99

a heavy large-caliber muzzle-loading usually smoothbore shoulder firearm; broadly : a shoulder gun carried by infantry
Read more at http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2013/10/14/#zIm0krsi04tgohd3.99

a heavy large-caliber muzzle-loading usually smoothbore shoulder firearm; broadly : a shoulder gun carried by infantry
Read more at http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2013/10/14/#zIm0krsi04tgohd3.99

a heavy large-caliber muzzle-loading usually smoothbore shoulder firearm; broadly : a shoulder gun carried by infantry
Read more at http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2013/10/14/#zIm0krsi04tgohd3.99

a heavy large-caliber muzzle-loading usually smoothbore shoulder firearm; broadly : a shoulder gun carried by infantry
Read more at http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2013/10/14/#zIm0krsi04tgohd3.99

In the early era of firearms, cannons of lesser size such as the falconet were sometimes named for birds of prey. Following this pattern, Italians applied "moschetto" or "moschetta," meaning "sparrow hawk," to a small-caliber piece of ordnance in the 16th century. Spaniards borrowed this word as "mosquete" and the French as "mosquet," but applied it to a heavy shoulder firearm rather than a cannon; English "musket" was borrowed soon thereafter from French. The word "musket" was retained after the original matchlock firing mechanism was replaced by a wheel lock, and the wheel lock by the flintlock. As the practice of rifling firearms—incising the barrel with spiral grooves to improve the bullet's accuracy—became more common, "musket" gradually gave way to the newer word "rifle" in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Read more at http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2013/10/14/#zIm0krsi04tgohd3.99

IDW Entertainment

Not long ago Fox Network passed on Locke and Key and comic property by IDW. Well that seems to have fueled the fire for some back room good older enterprising! IDW announced this past weekend the creation of IDW Entertainment. This new corporation's sole job is to bring the many properties of IDW to the small screen.

They have a run of comics, Transformers, XFiles, GI Joe, Locke and Key, Zombie War and others.

Full announcement here. 

How cool would it be to see the Xfiles return. It wouldn't be the same without Mulder and Scully. But if they came back! Awesome sauce.

Gaming Music

Here's some pretty cool sound for your Saturday evening's games. Nice background, not too intrusive.

Can't git to embed, so you'll have to Hulk Smash the link and go to the site!

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