Seek the Wolf in Thyself!
It was not easy. I have posted about the decision to return but the actual act was even harder. I had to deal with a lot of people I still have sour feelings towards. I had to watch as people enjoyed a con that I put my heart and soul into for 11 years, with nothing…
Something I through together that was ruled too “politically incorrect” to post anywhere else… A few comments from others when we took over… Gaming has never felt like an event since [the bugs] has been running things. Not to jab them, don’t really know any of them. But in years past, ConCarolinas felt like the game…
MACE East has been in our minds since we started thinking about branching out. We first tried to branch out with a mini-mace South but it was a dismal failure with no one preregistering. Then we went all-in with a MACE West in Hickory, then moved it to Asheville, and that is now entering it’s 6th…
For 15+ years now, I have been organizing gaming for both small to medium gaming cons and sci-fi cons, at an average of 3 to 4 a year. Over the years, I have developed a system that seems to work pretty well. I used technology to the best of my advantage, within my skills. I…
I write about MACE in multiple places but this is where I write about me and my feelings – a place to vent. Most people don’t want to read about how the sausage is made. They just want it cooked and served up. In the case of MACE, give the players “What, Where and When”…
… and why I don’t miss it. It is that time of year again. Any fan or geek that is knows anything in the Southeast knows that Labeor day weekend means one thing – Dragon*Con. If you don’t know, it is basically the comic-con of the Southeast. At one time, I looked forward to this…
Looking back, I realized that I wrote a short something about the first cruise I went on. This being my second, I thought I should. Because this cruise was also a “Club MACE” cruise, there was a gaming aspect to it, but I covered that part in my Gamer’s Codex review. The cruise was leaving from…
Once again, JustUs Productions was asked to do gaming at ConGregate, a small and growing sci-fi convention in North Carolina. At its core, ConGregate is made up of a lot of experienced people from a con called StellarCon, which they ran for many years. StellarCon was eventually handed over to a new group of people, primarily based out of UNC-Greensboro and has since collapsed from poor leadership and management. Although scheduled during a different time of the year, ConGregate is picking up from the ashes of that con and reigniting fandom in the Triad area.
It takes a lot for me to sit down and write about MACE after it is over. I invest so much time, emotion, and work into it that when it is over, I really go through something like postpartum. But writing about it helps with that in some ways, and the sooner I do it the more I can recall. This year was tough – probably one of the hardest years – and my fatigue has lasted longer than ever before. But I am going to make an effort just to get it down before things are less fresh in my mind.