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[[Three men sit around a folding table in the middle of a village of thatched huts.]]
BERNIE: This is shaping up to be a LEGENDARY national election!
STIG: Oh, man! If Obama wins the Presidency…TALK about HISTORIC!
After ALL these years, a President with a surname BOTH BEGINNING AND ENDING in a VOWEL!
THINK of it! AND the first Presidential surname with MORE VOWELS THAN CONSONANTS!
For years it seemed like nobody could beat FIFTY PERCENT–Coolidge, Pierce, Eisenhower, Reagan, you know all those tired old names–but Obama’s poised to SHATTER that record!

BERNIE: With only forty-three Presidents, it’s not terribly hard fo any one of them to be the first at something obscure. Clinton was the first BABY BOOMER President. George W. was the first to visit ALBANIA.
If Obama wins, it’ll PROBABLY be historic for reasons OTHER than his being the fourteenth (after Carter, Nixon, Jefferson, Cleveland, both Johnsons, Tyler, Hayes, Jackson, Madison, Grant, Wilson and arguably Taylor) to feature PALINDROMIC VOWEL-CONSONANT DISPERSION.
STIG: GUHHHHH I have to change my pants.

{{Header: make headlines at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: McCain calls himself a ‘maverick,’ but McKinley beat him to the patronymic particle by over 100 years.}}

#441; In which Politics exhilarate transcribed by in

[[Three men sit around a folding table in the middle of a village of thatched huts.]]
BERNIE: This is shaping up to be a LEGENDARY national election!
STIG: Oh, man! If Obama wins the Presidency…TALK about HISTORIC!
After ALL these years, a President with a surname BOTH BEGINNING AND ENDING in a VOWEL!
THINK of it! AND the first Presidential surname with MORE VOWELS THAN CONSONANTS!
For years it seemed like nobody could beat FIFTY PERCENT–Coolidge, Pierce, Eisenhower, Reagan, you know all those tired old names–but Obama’s poised to SHATTER that record!

BERNIE: With only forty-three Presidents, it’s not terribly hard fo any one of them to be the first at something obscure. Clinton was the first BABY BOOMER President. George W. was the first to visit ALBANIA.
If Obama wins, it’ll PROBABLY be historic for reasons OTHER than his being the fourteenth (after Carter, Nixon, Jefferson, Cleveland, both Johnsons, Tyler, Hayes, Jackson, Madison, Grant, Wilson and arguably Taylor) to feature PALINDROMIC VOWEL-CONSONANT DISPERSION.
STIG: GUHHHHH I have to change my pants.

{{Header: make headlines at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: McCain calls himself a ‘maverick,’ but McKinley beat him to the patronymic particle by over 100 years.}}

#441; In which Politics exhilarate transcribed by in

[[Three men sit around a folding table in the middle of a village of thatched huts.]]
BERNIE: This is shaping up to be a LEGENDARY national election!
STIG: Oh, man! If Obama wins the Presidency...TALK about HISTORIC!
After ALL these years, a President with a surname BOTH BEGINNING AND ENDING in a VOWEL!
THINK of it! AND the first Presidential surname with MORE VOWELS THAN CONSONANTS!
For years it seemed like nobody could beat FIFTY PERCENT--Coolidge, Pierce, Eisenhower, Reagan, you know all those tired old names--but Obama's poised to SHATTER that record!

BERNIE: With only forty-three Presidents, it's not terribly hard fo any one of them to be the first at something obscure. Clinton was the first BABY BOOMER President. George W. was the first to visit ALBANIA.
If Obama wins, it'll PROBABLY be historic for reasons OTHER than his being the fourteenth (after Carter, Nixon, Jefferson, Cleveland, both Johnsons, Tyler, Hayes, Jackson, Madison, Grant, Wilson and arguably Taylor) to feature PALINDROMIC VOWEL-CONSONANT DISPERSION.
STIG: GUHHHHH I have to change my pants.

{{Header: make headlines at WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{Alt-text: McCain calls himself a 'maverick,' but McKinley beat him to the patronymic particle by over 100 years.}}

McCain calls himself a 'maverick', but McKinley beat him to the medial-capital patronymic particle by over 100 years.

#441; In which Politics exhilarate

  — September 9th, 2008

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New ways to get Bolted!

July 24, 2026 by David Malki !

In addition to buying things directly from me, the normal way, my game Bolted! is also now available on Amazon dot com.

On that famous website, you can also get the Creature-Crafting Magnets Set, which is made of the same artwork from the game, but is just a weird little trinket (not a playable game).

My kiddo made the elaborate version below to show off just how many magnets you get in the set (it’s 150 pieces in all — this isn’t even all of them).

Also now on Amazon is my set of Multi-Purpose Greeting Cards — a full dozen cards with envelopes in a fancy, unbranded, foil-stamped box!

Event alert!

I’ll also be showing off Bolted! at Greenwood Games, an event in Seattle this Saturday:

Greenwood Games is a free, all-ages community game event that invites players to spend the afternoon walking Greenwood Avenue from 65th to 80th, collecting clues, cracking puzzles, and discovering games made right here in Washington.

Think of it as Pride Hop, ArtWalk, and the Gumshoe all rolled into one,  except the whole thing is built around games and puzzles.​

Local game designers will be set up at different places along Greenwood Avenue in Phinney Ridge (near Ballard). My specific spot will be the “Holy Mountain Phinney Ridge Taproom”. All the information about all the different games & venues is on the website!

(If you’re in Seattle generally but not free tomorrow, Bolted! is also stocked at Blue Highway Games in Queen Anne.)

Next week, I’ll be at Gen Con! I personally will be hanging with my buddy Sam Logan at BFE Webcomics, booth #1217… but I have it on good authority that copies of Bolted! will be available at the CRWN Studios booth, #2549.

Visit one booth! Then the other! The order…is up to you.


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