In 2012, I went to GenCon. It was my first time at the con and the first time I met Clint and Jodie Black and their amazing daughters. Clint and Jodie are old friends of Marguerite (She’s done a chunk of RPG editing, writing, has characters who appear as examples in various rulebooks and is …
Well this is different: That’s my TO DO board. It’s been full for 21 days and the things written at the top the last few days have always been: UFC Titanium Rain GenCon Today, I wrote the outstanding blog posts about the excellent graphic novel Titanium Rain, the announcement of the first UFC …
Sometimes you get bogged down, and sometimes, ten metres away from the try line, you slow down. I used to get that a lot, I’d be passed the ball sprint and then…slow…I was already mentally across the line, already there and every single time that happened? SACKED. Dropped like third period French. That …
As of tomorrow, I’m on NanoJourno time. As I talked about earlier in the month, I don’t want to do long form fiction because, for me, fiction is a zero sum game at the moment. So instead, and because much like MC Frontalot I remain bound for the high road even though it looks …
And then two months passed, we moved across the Atlantic to Nottingham, Marguerite started attending law school and I wrote these things. How have you been? Starting with Blogbusters,the last two months have seen us caper up and down the genre lines like a chilli-tailed rat…or…something. We’ve discussed who the best Nemesis relationship in …
Behind the scenes at the museum. We went for dinner at Greek Islands the previous night, a local Indy restaurant which seems to operate off this philosophy: There is no problem that endless starters, flaming cheese and belly dancing cannot solve. The place is small, raucous and, hand to God, serves cheese …
It’s entirely possible to spend four days here and not step outside. Not because you’re busy gaming, although God knows enough people are, but because Indianapolis is a town that’s looking to the stars. Or at least, to the second storey. The Convention Center, itself basically the size of every town I grew up in …
A convention is always a landslide, a group of similarly interested people, companies and performers bouncing downhill in loose formation for however many days it takes for the goods to be sold, the lease to run out and the beer to run dry. Earlier today, someone tweeted: GenCon’s in town. The whole of Central …