Way-Back Wednesday: Remembering Fraggle Rock

Muppet Wikia Jim Henson’s Fraggle Rock first aired in 1983, introducing us to the show’s five main Fraggle characters — Red, Gobo, Mokey, Boober, and Wembley — and a large secondary cast that includes Doc, Uncle Traveling Matt, the Ancients, the Doozers, various Fraggle townspeople, the Cave Fraggles, the Gorgs, and Marjory the talking trash […]



Way-Back Wednesday: What Dungeons & Dragons Looked Like in the 1980s

I’m old enough to remember this commercial, but too young to understand at the time what D&D was, exactly. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, both former Napoleonic wargamers, developed D&D in 1974. The game was based on one of Gygax’s earlier game developments, Chainmail, and incorporated rules and structure from the pair’s experience with wargaming. […]

Xenomorph Discovered Guarding 13th Century Abbey [Pic]

Sure, there are plenty of fantastic creatures carved as gargoyles projecting from the walls of various religious monuments throughout the world, but this is the first time I’ve seen a Xenomorph guarding the walls of an Abbey. Paisley Abbey was originally founded in 1245, and rebuilt in the early 1300s, and the recent “discovery” of […]