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I’m sure that everyone in their mid-20s has that one game that defined their childhood and still carries a strong emotional significance.  I’ve known people that were moved to tears by Final Fantasy VII and one of my best friends made it through his parents divorcing by playing Sonic & Knuckles repeatedly.  Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge was one of my favorite games and I owe Ron Gilbert a beer if I ever run into him for providing me with the memory of beating it for the first time. Read the rest of this entry »

Colonel Percy Fawcett had a lifelong passion for the esoteric and exploration.  In 1893, while exploring Ceylon‘s jungles, he discovered a large boulder with strange inscriptions.  He was eventually told that they were a form of script that only a handful of Buddhist monks could understand.  The idea of a lost civilization hiding just beyond what had been explored in the jungles captivated him to the point that it led to his 1925 disappearance in the Amazon.  It reads like a H.P. Lovecraft story: the occult, cannibal tribes, whispering spirits, and a lost Atlantean city.

In 1906, the 39-year-old Fawcett was sent to delimit the borders between Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador.  The area was unforgiving.  European rubber plantations would illegally enslave entire jungle villages and the cannibal natives would attack anything that entered their land.  Fawcett broke tradition by treating the natives with respect, providing them with gifts whenever he entered their land, and listened to their stories intently. Read the rest of this entry »

What have you accomplished so far in your life?  Graduated college, working a nice 9-5 job, and hanging out at the poshest clubs, bars, and lounges around town?  Fancy yourself to be a bit of a badass, right?  Well, you aren’t.  This is a list of 10 individuals that were so amazing at what they did that calling them anything less than a badass is an insult. Read the rest of this entry »

Dean Reed’s strange journey to become the best known rock star in the Eastern Bloc started in 1958 when, at the age of 20, he moved to Los Angeles to become just like Elvis, his idol. Capitol Records signed him and started molding him into a teen idol. Everything he released was a massive flop in the United States, but following a South American tour it was discovered that “A Summer Romance” was a huge hit in Argentina. Read the rest of this entry »