I just updated the photo on my “About” page. Just so you don’t have to go digging for it, though, here it is. If you click on the thumbnail, you’ll see an even larger version too.
History via Google
One of the best things about living in the Information Age is the ability to stumble upon websites built by people you haven’t seen in years. Case in point: Tim Pollard. Back when I worked in the Games Workshop Design Studio, Tim and his pal Russ had desks in the same room with me and Bill King for a while. …
Happy Holidays!
Best wishes to you and yours during this holiday season, whether you choose to observe Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice, the Packers-Bears game, the New Year, or the fact you’re still kicking!
Kid Kovalic
My good pal John Kovalic (of Dork Tower and too-many-games-to-list fame) announced publicly that he and his wife Judith are adopting a baby girl from Russia! Congratulations to all three of the Kovalics! They are three of the luckiest people around to have found each other, and I’m looking forward to watching them all grow up with each other.
Old Friends Passing Through
Jim Kitchen, an old pal of mine from his days with Games Workshop US, passed through Beloit on Sunday on his way back home from a Thanksgiving weekend in Chicago. I met up with him, his lovely wife, and their son Jack for a quick lunch as a respite from crunching away at Blood Bowl: Dead Ball. Despite the fact …
Grand Marshals Times Five
Here in Beloit, WI, our Downtown Business Association sponsors a lighted holiday parade every year on the Friday night after Thanksgiving. This year, the theme is “Through the Eyes of a Child.” As such, they asked if our kids would be willing to lead the parade, since we seem to have a lot of children with eyes to see through …
Pinter Wins the Nobel
Playwright, screenwriter, director, actor, and poet Harold Pinter won the Nobel Prize for Literature yesterday. I’ve enjoyed some of Pinter’s work, but not managed to read nearly all of it. However, Pinter wrote the last play in which I acted: The Room. So I feel some connection. Our production took place in the Residential College Theater in the East Quad …
I’m Baaaack
On September 21, I left the US for Prague, to witness the marriage of one of my best friends, Bill King, to the love of his life. I got back on the 28th, and I’m just now caught up enough to spend time on this website. As you might guess from the slew of new posts, I’ve had lots of …
Spitfire Grill Open
Here’s a shot of the Spitfire Grill sign I won in a raffle from the New Court Theatre this summer. It looks great over our stove.
Who Did That?
One of the interesting things about raising quadruplets is trying to figure out who did what. For instance, a couple years back, I had to take Nick to the hospital for a gash in his forehead. He got it while we were in another room, and while he had a brother near him when he was bloodied, we’ll never know …