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...
SO MANY DICE SO LITTLE TIME
ReplyDeleteWHERE IS THIS SORCERY?
ReplyDeleteSource Comics & Games.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.sourcecomicsandgames.com/
If you think that's a lot of dice, that's only about 1/4 of them in the picture.
ReplyDeleteIs this store featured in THAC0?
ReplyDeleteHow it should be! (How it isn't in any store I've ever seen).
ReplyDeleteBut you have to roll them first before you buy them.
ReplyDeleteFor a sec I almost thought you were at Dragon's Lair in Austin, which is my favorite game store ever. They, too, let you roll before you buy.
ReplyDeleteOh man, I want giant open dice bins like that at my local store!
ReplyDeleteIt's been too long since I fed the dice addiction.
ReplyDeleteTimothy Stone Holy shit, you know about THAC0? My friend helped write and act in that!
ReplyDelete(The Source moved locations between when it was made and this shot, so while it may be the same store, it's not the same location.)
Lex Larson know it? Own it. Regularly quote it.
ReplyDeleteI went to Penguicon in MI a number of years ago where it was screened to an audience of maybe 10 people. We finished watching and turned around to see Bill Stiteler sitting in back.
I got a chance to talk to him at length (and learned how he got Neil Gaiman to cameo).
Small world! That's fantastic.
ReplyDeleteThat game shop is awesome!
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