From Voyageurs National Park on FB:
From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
That's the most 80's thing I've ever seen on the internet. Including every site dedicated to the 80's.
ReplyDeleteIt's maybe the best piece of gaming art ever.
ReplyDeleteThis guy made out with his girlfriend in the back of my school bus every day.
ReplyDeleteThat picture is so 80's, my iMac is now wearing a Members Only jacket.
ReplyDeleteI can hear the Ladyhawke soundtrack in the background. :|
ReplyDeleteYou can't see it, but there is a comb sticking out of his back pocket.
ReplyDeleteThe type of comb that looks like a switchblade?
ReplyDeleteI had one of those switchcombs... what were my parents THINKING?!
ReplyDeleteWilliam Benjamin John Davis They were thinking, "Our boy's going to be a Mech pilot one day."
ReplyDeleteOh man... I must be a huge disappointment...
ReplyDeleteThe Inner Sphere's finest right here. The Clans never stood a chance. They can take their double heat-sinks and EPPCs and shove them up their asses.
ReplyDeleteNothing gets through my tiger striped spandex. Nothing.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure that the dude in that picture introduced me to Rush in 1986. "Hey, man, YYZ. Just check it out, man. It'll take a few listens to get into it, but when it clicks, you'll know it. Fuckin' radical."
ReplyDeleteShouldn't that be on the side of a van or something?
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