... and I've got bad news. Which Do You Want First? Ok, first the bad news.

As you can tell from the noticeable absence of my name from the playWRITE invitees, my extensively collected (thanks y'all) and excitingly fertile Personal Pitch was unsuccessful in securing me a spot at the first ever NSI Narrative Design in Video Games program. I just want to take another chance here to extend my congratulations to those playWRITE applicants who have achieved a coveted spot at the Vidfest 2008 boot camp. You're all the luckiest bunch of so-and-so's I've seen in a long time. May you each get everything you deserve out of it, sincerely. My personal lament is that these ideas inspired by the pitch process are, without an outlet or an audience, sans raison d'être, set to whither and atrophy. While Wheel X-Press wouldn't actually make a very good game, the workingly titled Future Crisis I teased at with my last video post damned well would. I haven't even exposed one tenth of the ideas I have on that and, as I said, it's hard to keep shelving my creativity because there's nobody to witness it. If anyone has any suggestions or can actually offer some help as to how my creations can remain alive, please message me with that.

And if any of you happen to be near Kamloops for the last week of July or the first week of August, please come out to Prince Charles Park to say, 'Hi'. That's the good news. I appear still to be somewhat relevant in my limited and highly unlucrative field of unorthodox Shakespearean theatre performance. What you didn't know is that as I was developing my dynamic and compelling though tragically ineffectual Personal Pitch, I was also preparing for an audition with the ironically named Project X Theatre's X-Fest in Kamloops, and as I was discovering the results here, I was also learning that my impressive talents will be required there later this summer for The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged) and A Midsummer Night's Dream. The best news is that they are working to arrange for family accommodation so that The Tiny Tyrant should be able to accompany me along with his mother.

I'll continue to see what's going on here when I can, because it's cool. Please keep your own dreams alive. It's a great little green house going on here to nurture them to fruition. Canada deserves great indie comics and YOU are the people to make them.

Peace and Love always,

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