Fire from the Sky – Meteor Crater
About 15 miles west of Winslow, Arizona, you turn off at the aptly named Meteor Crater Road exit. Nothing is here, save a large and friendly service station, too big for something this close...
Monthly Archive: November 2013
Gamechanger – Spy vs. Spy
Antonio Prohias was the most celebrated cartoonist in Cuba, winner of multiple awards, and especially known for his biting political cartoons. In 1959, Fidel Castro honored Prohias personally, but by 1960, Castro had himself...
Three-Hour Tour – 3 Quick Stops in NYC
A few weeks ago, a friend who had never been to New York was coming to the city on business, but only very briefly. With just a three hour window open in his schedule,...
“Clerks” Quick Stop market – Leonardo, NJ
I was down in Red Bank, NJ over the weekend and took the opportunity to make a pilgrimage to the Quick Stop market from Kevin Smith‘s Clerks. It’s one of my old-school favorites, the...
Gamechanger – Ballblazer
In 1984, George Lucas expanded his empire, and the Lucasfilm Games brand launched by releasing two games. Rescue on Fractalus! was a first-person flight-rescue simulation, similar to Choplifter. It certainly was a fun game,...
This Old Game – NATO Commander
Before he became a universally-accaimmed game designer, Sid Meier was just a recent computer science graduate from the University of Michigan. All-be-it, one who could beat the crap out of an actual retired Air Force pilot, Bill...
Gamechanger – Star League Baseball
In 1983, a small software company in Santa Barbara, California, Gamestar, Inc., released a groundbreaking new baseball game – Star League Baseball. The game itself was still simple. Two teams, still no leagues or...
Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum – A Day Onboard The “Fighting I”
Sporting one of the most distinguished service records in U.S. Navy history, the USS Intrepid was commissioned on April 26, 1943 – just one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers the U.S. produced during World...
