Nils and the Big 3-0

Longtime friend and former resident of Doodletown Nils Barth just hit the Big Thirty- Happy Birthday Nils! Mr. Decent salutes you!

Of course you know Nils Barth- he was the former owner of The Wizard's Blizzard, only the coolest comic book and role-playing hobby shop Doodletown had ever known. As Doodletown's official Dungeon Master, he had all of us half-orcs, paladins, and illusionists casting our ten-sided dice on basement tables to great glories of unspeakable fortune. If you think I'm joking, I'm gonna hit you on the head with my +2 bastard sword. Then I'm going to throw you into my portable hole.

Alas, there were greater glories in store for Nils Barth, as he sold The Wizard's Blizzard to Starbucks, who then turned the hobby shop into a Starbucks. Sure, we Doodletownians were saddened by the loss of our beloved role-playing leader, but as Nils himself said, "Dude, get out of your basement and go talk to chicks."

We did. We asked those chicks to meet us for coffee. And, when we were with those chicks at the new Starbucks, we'd pour a little bit of our lattes onto the ground, for the fallen heros, deities, litches, golems, clerics, halflings, and magic-users. A little salute to the gods and goddesses of other realms.

What's Nils up to now, you ask? He's across the pond in merry old England. What's Nils doing in England? He's kicking ass. And taking names. Last I heard, he was staring Year 30 down at a pub, and as soon as Year 30 opened his mouth, Nils smashed a pint glass into his jaw. Nils made 30 his bitch.

I wish I was there with you, Nils Barth- with my +2 bastard sword at my side.

To send Nils Barth an electronic birthday mail greeting, send it to nbarth@nbarth.net This guy kicks so much ass, they had to give him his own net-