My New Alter-Ego: Pocket the Fool

Hello, MisfitMonkey Nation.

If I’m still on your feed, thanks! I appreciate your desire to keep up with my harpings and I’ll make an effort to honor that by sharing my harpings more often. I’ve been … hibernating, so to speak, for the past little while. Now I’m awake, alert, and feeling good. Time to carpe diem!

Two things I want to highlight today. The first is that awhile ago I threw a tweet up on Twitter and Facebook inviting anyone in my sphere of influence who is attending GenCon to meet with me for an interview, chat, or shout-out on Canon Puncture. See, I wasn’t going to Indy this year, but circumstances have improved, and now I’m planning to come up after all on Friday evening (and stay til Sunday morning) to watch the Ennies and spend some time socializing with those of you that I hardly ever get to see – and to meet some new friends, too, of course. And I’ll be there with a media badge as the official GenCon 09 reporter for Canon Puncture.

So, if you missed my tweet about this, then hopefully you’ll catch this post – if you’re a publisher, designer, podcaster, rpg-player, booth monkey, or Canon Puncture listener and you’d like to talk to me on record about your game, product, creative endeavors – or, even better, just about your life and play experiences in our crazy hobby – then write to me at harpingmick@gmail.com or contact me in some way else, and I’ll start pulling together a list of people to connect with while I’m at the con.

Also, of course, I’m looking forward to just plain socializing and celebrating a chance to be with folks I enjoy hanging out with, so even if you don’t want to get your voice and thoughts on a podcast, then yeah, we can still get together and enjoy each other’s company!

The second thing – really more of a side-note – is that I am tempted to promise that I’ll be posting a series of VAM-related images, ideas, and concepts here on the Monkey in the next couple of weeks because I’m actually trying to pull together a playable alpha-test of the DRYH-version of VAM for possible play at GenCon and I’m trying to focus a lot of my newly-reignited creative energy on that, and I’d like to share it here while I’m doing it. And in terms of my intent, that’s all true. But I won’t actually make any such promise, because my reputation for promising such things and not delivering is already hefty enough.

But it might happen. So, stay tuned.