Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Fantasy Fantasy Death #2 - Little Goomba #1

Little Goomba #1 2008-2008
Team: The Syracuse Valley
Final Death: Season 1 - Week 10
Final Killer: Poison Ivy

Monday, May 5, 2008

Fantasy Fantasy Death #1 - Carlos Olivera

Carlos Olivera 2008-2008
Team: Alice's Wonder Team
Final Death: Season 1 - Week 10
Final Killer: Wolverine

Sunday, May 4, 2008

In Memoriam - Charlton Heston




Charlton Heston 1923-2008

Charlton Heston was an American actor of film, theater and television. Heston is known for having played heroic roles, such as Moses in The Ten Commandments, Colonel George Taylor in Planet of the Apes and Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. In the 1950s and 1960s he was one of a handful of Hollywood actors to speak openly against racism and was an active supporter of the Civil Rights Movement. Initially a liberal Democrat, he later supported conservative politics and was president of the National Rifle Association from 1998 to 2003.

In Memoriam - Arthur C. Clarke




Arthur C. Clarke 1917-2008

Sir Arthur C. Clarke was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, written in collaboration with director Stanley Kubrick, a collaboration which led also to the film of the same name.

In Memoriam - Gary Gygax



Gary Gygax
1938-2008

Gary Gygax was best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson in 1974, and co-founding the company Tactical Studies Rules (TSR, Inc.) with Don Kaye in 1973. After leaving TSR, Gygax continued to author role-playing game titles independently, including another gaming system called Lejendary Adventure.

Gygax is generally acknowledged as one of the fathers of the tabletop role-playing game.