Something special for our 5th anniversary? How about a picture we have not uploaded before?

Here you are! This is us on the National Mall—see the Lincoln Memorial?—we took back in 1994.

From left, there’s Sleestak, Ghettoputer F.X. Gormogon, GorTechie (in back, in case you do not see him), Dat Ho, Confucius the Œcumenical Volgi, our ever-loyal revivified Egyptian mummy butler Inetef-Te-Henqet, the Czar of Muscovy, 2-1B, the Inscrutable Mandarin (wearing his snazzy black uniform), Dr. J., and the de facto head of security, Dga-po the yeti.

We had to time travel for this shot, of course, as Dr. J was not with us, and Dat Ho would have been -7 years old at the time.

Perhaps, if you work really hard, you will see your picture added to this in a few decades. Anything is possible!

The Czar of Muscovy

Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.