(moving this to a response to my own question..)

According to this chart, there are still more arcade games than any other game (although, I assume that includes sports, fighting, shooting and racing games), and, inexplicably enough, there are still more text-based adventure games than shoot em up, sports, racing and puzzle games combined.

Agreed with the minor quibble.

Has me interested!

Fascinating! Keep these off-the-beaten-track pulp studies coming!

Are you certain?

I would totally wear a wooden hat.

Wait... at 7:00... you can type on a qwerty keyboard and have Japanese characters pop-up... and this is intuitively and/or easy for people posting online?

Totally worth it.

Speaking as a Texan... that's H-E-B.

There's an error in the Obama entry. The link is only a mail-to link, rather than linking to the original article.

Theory on Bae... he jumped into the real world when Rumple had only been the Dark One for a few years (Bae was still a kid, after all), and that was decades, if not hundreds of years ago, given all of the various long-term schemes Rumple's been getting involved with.

Picked up Loki at the con... he's totally a DM.

That is... intense. Thanks for sharing!

Art Adams. The man is a legend, but he's never been given the kind of spotlight he deserves. Plus, I think his Godzilla should be the basis for any CGI King of Monsters.

That's what made him such a great villain... purely evil villains never have a line to cross, they're just evil. This guy knew right from wrong, and had his own views on which side he was on and what it would take for him to go further.

I was looking for them too...

Here, here!

If it hasn't already been said (I have trouble navigating the comments system here), Marc Alaimo's Gul Dukat made Deep Space Nine for me. As much as I loved the heroes of the show, his multifaceted villain brought it to Shakespearean levels.

I hear he and Madame de Pompadour got along fantastic.