DOOMED WIZARD DIARIES

Okay, I'm an idiot. For some reason I kept calling Anita Eckberg "Anita Eckert." I guess I should check my file names more carefully, huh? Anyway, here's a random image of the Swedish "Ice Queen" herself. They just don't make bombshells anymore, boppers. In other blogger news, I've added a new link to the list to your right. One of the coolest blogs I've seen, brought to my attention by my good friend Nik Havert . Check it out!

At one time I think I promised more images of Swedish "Ice Queen" Anita Eckert, so here you go, boppers.

Fellow blogger the Evil DM posted a link to this totally superfluous, dangerously addictive but extremely fun website tool . After spending a couple hours playing around with it, I've decided to post this one I did as a total exercise in humility. Hey, we were all young once, right? Just click to enlarge the image if you can't make it all out. Until next time, boppers...

Back in the late 1980s, my buddies and me put down our 1st Edition AD&D rule books and took a crack at playing super heroes for awhile. I had the serendipitous pleasure of meeting Jeff Dee, co-creator of the RPG Villains & Vigilantes the first time I attended the Michiana Comicon back in '85. I'd been a fan of his art since I first cracked open the basic D&D rule book back in '81 and had bought the V&V rule set just a few months before meeting Mr. Dee. I was stoked, so the summer of '85 my pals and I put down our swords and spell books, donned tights and acquired superhuman powers in the name of justice. In this short-lived fervor, many characters were created and some pretty memorable adventures took place. Over the years, we'd played many different RPGs, including frequent returns to V&V, but none of the latter characters could seem to top those first handful of heroes. At one time, not so long ago, I even entertained the idea of chronicl...

While trolling through the murky depths of my hard drive, I came across an old image of my femme fatal, Nora Frost. Ms. Frost first appeared to me in a dream well over ten years ago and has haunted my imagination ever since. She made her first "appearance" in a short story I wrote called "The Wizard of Holiday Ave." as the spell-slinging stripper love interest to the story's hero Jack. Later, I attempted to expand Jack's world by compiling and adding to all the short stories I'd written about him in a book called "The Charmed Life." It was an attempt to combine film noir with fantasy. One of these days, I may get around to finishing the book, but in the meantime, just enjoy the picture. Here's an article I found awhile back while blogging (the cyber space equivalent of "dumpster diving," I suppose). I told some friends about it not too long ago and meant to post it then, but I sorta forgot about it. I don't know how rel...

1943, somewhere on a small uncharted island off the coast of Africa... "Behold! Za greatest veapon of za Sird Reich!" " Ullaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! " Meanwhile, somewhere in the heart of Kansas, upon a hot, wooden stage, a handful of silver screen serial heroes gather for a War Bond rally. Although the lot of them never quite reached the star status of the Phantom, the Shadow or even "Crash" Corrigan, to this crowd, they are all stars. Heroes. Today, their names are legend. William Waters, Olympic silver medal swimmer turned actor achieved fame in "The Underwater Empire" as the Atlantean hero the Blue Wave. Sidney Rosenthal as the crimson-clad Latin swashbuckler El Royo. Wally "Booster" Martin as the rocketeering Nightflyer. Burt Barnes, aka the high-flying Captain Nighthawk. Dylan Morrow, Olympic gold medal-winning archer as the Scarlet Archer. The reclusive Richmond Kane as the mysterious Chimera. And Jack Hart, the All-American Hero...