Topic: Personal Commentary
Yesterday, I highlighted a few of my favorite things about 2008. Now it's time to preview a bit of 2009 for you.
- I have rededicated myself to art. The Wife gave me a new set of Kohinoor Rapidograph technical pens for Christmas. I have FINALLY organized the ManCave allowing me the space to draw. I've laid in supplies of sketch paper, bristol board, etc. I'm already tinkering with some sketches for a "masterpiece" I have in mind. Really and truly, I think it will be STUNNING once complete. I need to do a lot of studies on it, sketches, and tests just to get my arm loose and my "eye" working again. I'm excited. And - Dammit - this Bachelor of Arts is making some ding-dang art again!
- I am continuing my work with Mark on the Mark Andrew PopeCast. We've got some great topics lined up. I get more and more jazzed about what we're doing there every week.
- Later this month, fingers crossed, I will be running my first scenario in my sandbox, homebrew setting This Empire Earth.
- I am in the process of coordinating the DFW V3 event for this February. V3, or Veni Vidi Venatus ("I came, I saw, I gamed"), is the Podge Cast created/sponsored one-shotter-day. The first V3 was held in December. It was an event held in several states with rather positive results. Dallas-Fort Worth doesn't have the dynamic RP community that St Louis and other areas have. It is my hope that with some coordinated events, maybe that will change. I've got my fingers crossed that I'll be able to find a home for V3 in north Texas.
- I have discussed ad nauseum how much I enjoyed last year's Fear the Con. It should come as no surprise, then, that I will be attending Fear the Con 2 in March. I will be running two games... A follow up to the All Flesh Must Be Eaten one-shot I ran last year and a one-shot of my homebrew setting This Empire Earth. My AFMBE game already has a full table! Woot! I also plan on getting in on some other cool games such as a little Don't Rest Your Head and Dread. Should be a whole lot of fun.
- I'm getting a new puppy!(*)
- Something I and others have been working on for several weeks, and planning even longer than that, is a new website. The new site will be the home of a multi-author blog in which we discuss all things geek with the intent of providing - at a minimum - daily updates. Comics and movies, table top role playing games and TV shows, console gaming and books... if you can geek on it, we'll be writing about it. We'll be podcasting, too! I am proud of the talent we have pooled together in this endeavor. It is my hope to launch the new blog this month with the podcast to follow soon after. Watch this space. Formal announcement to follow in rather short order...
That's a lot just for the first quarter of the year, don't you think?
2009 is gonna be big, bold, and badass.
Aron Head
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(*) Not really. I just threw that in to see if The Wife is paying attention.
Posted by Aron Head
at 9:45 PM CST
