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Renewal, Return, and Rebirth

I’ve been away from this blog for a while. Which means this post is likely to be a long one. Better sit down with a cup of tea and get comfortable… 😉For those who don’t know me, since 2005 I have been the Creative Director and Logistician of the TempleCon retro-futurist gaming convention, which eats up vast quantities of my life between September and the actual weekend of the convention in early February. This year was the convention’s tenth anniversary,...

Icon Alchemy on Tumblr

I’ve finally gotten around to configuring my Tumblr account and posting on it. I figure it’s good for those days when I’m feeling purely visual and don’t want to talk much, as opposed to Twitter for when I’m feeling quirky and pithy. Or here when I actually get around to writing more than a sentence or two… 😉 While there will certainly be some cross-posting, especially in relation to art projects, I expect that the Icon Alchemy Tumblr will...

Mead-Brewing Seminar in the Works

As Creative Director of TempleCon, the retro-futurist science fiction and gaming convention that I co-founded ten years ago, I am currently in the thick of pre-convention planning for TempleCon 2015. One of the popular features of TempleCon is a tradition of hosting seminars related to the appreciation of (and in some cases brewing or cooking with) various kinds of alcohol, scotch in particular being the drink that started it all. Led by three-time...

Inaugural Post: On Lunar Nodes and Karmic Process

I almost didn’t launch this blog this week. After getting the basic site structure worked out enough to feel comfortable with posting to it, I was still experiencing a bit of perfectionist discomfort about it, which of course resulted in writer’s block for a couple of days. Thursday night I thought I’d take advantage of the Venus-Jupiter trine’s favorable environment for writing and publishing to help myself get over my nervousness. But then an...