How is it possible that August of all months should be going by too fast, but here we are a week and change from DragonCon already. The 80,000 Batgirls are already damp-proofing their capes and cowls, so the least I can do for them is post my own schedule for the weekend to let them plan around it.…| princeofcairo.livejournal.com
Once more, this year's GenCon schedule remains free of jitters and zigzags -- on the SURFACE. Beneath, it's a roiling sea of confusion, as I will be manning the Pelgrane booth (#623) without the overseas contingent that actually does things so that I can flit about like a gorgeous parakeet or preen…| princeofcairo.livejournal.com
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This weekend I get to be the Gaming Guest of Honor at Tremendicon in scenic Springfield, Missouri, and with that august responsibility comes some form of schedule, here vouchsafed unto you. As always that august responsibility includes no knowledge whatsoever of plans to stream, cast, fly, or samba…| princeofcairo.livejournal.com
Robert Munroe (Ensign, Lexington militia, KIA 19 April 1775, Lexington Green) Breonna Alexsondria Moffett (SGT, 718th Engr Co, 926th Engr Bn, 926th Engr Bde, US Army Reserve, KIA 28 Jan 2024, Rukban, Jordan) And all 559,330 in between. I've been doing this post every year since 2009 and this is the…| princeofcairo.livejournal.com
By which I mean "Dundracon Renaissance," by which I mean "Dundracon renewal," by which I mean "I'm returning to Dundracon!" Because it's the oldest RPG convention, and one of my favorites, and not just because it gets me out of Chicago in February and into semi-sunny Santa Clara, California. If…| princeofcairo.livejournal.com
Bigos is just the "hunter's stew" but from Poland, so it's basically the same architecture as cassoulet, cacciatore, or similar: available mixed meat plus available allium plus herbs plus an extender of some sort (beans in cassoulet, pasta in Italy, cabbage in Poland), braised in stock with wine or…| princeofcairo.livejournal.com
Once more I somehow have been selected to add value to 80,000 damp Batgirls in the moist heart of Atlanta, Georgia -- that's right, it's DragonCon time again! This year the Gaming Track is full up with people celebrating Dungeons & Dragons' 50th Anniversary without me (much one imagines to the…| princeofcairo.livejournal.com
Once more I ascend to the Parnassian heights of Providence in the natal month of my problematic muse, H.P. Lovecraft, to celebrate him and the weird tradition he embodied, defended, perfected, and yelled at. To wit, I am once more manifesting at NecronomiCon Providence, over the weekend of August…| princeofcairo.livejournal.com
Unlike some years, this year's GenCon schedule remains free of bumps, jogs, and other oddities -- it's practically a cut-and-paste of my default GenCon schedule for the last decade. This, I maintain, is a good thing. You can also find me during show hours at the Pelgrane Press booth (#529) or in a…| princeofcairo.livejournal.com
Robert Munroe (Ensign, Lexington militia, KIA 19 April 1775, Lexington Green) Breonna Alexsondria Moffett (SGT, 718th Engr Co, 926th Engr Bn, 926th Engr Bde, US Army Reserve, KIA 28 Jan 2024, Rukban, Jordan) And all 559,330 in between.| princeofcairo.livejournal.com
If any of you good people have any good virtual conventioneering left in you, I have a good one for you to tune into -- ChupacabraCon VII, normally in Austin, this weekend on Discord! So click one, click all! FRIDAY, APRIL 30 11:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m. Morning Coffee and Cthulhu Join horror gaming king…| princeofcairo.livejournal.com
Robert Munroe (Ensign, Lexington militia, KIA 19 April 1775, Lexington Green) Kareem M. Nikoui (Lance Cpl, 2nd Bn, 1st Marine Regt, 1st Marine Div, I Marine Exp Force, USMC, KIA 26 August 2021, Kabul Airport, Afghanistan) And all 559,328 in between. I've been doing this post every year since 2009…| princeofcairo.livejournal.com
The Chicago International Film Festival returns to mostly in-person screenings, though with a weaker lineup than normal. I might have seen three more movies if I didn't have a quick trip to GameHoleCon in Madison blotting out the Thursday and Friday screenings, and I'm putting off Corsage (Marie…| princeofcairo.livejournal.com
Once more the gates open and the stars come right for the one and only NecronomiCon PVD in Lovecraft's city on Lovecraft's birthday! Once more I have no conception of the dark questions of streaming or podding or any other Tillinghastliness! And once more I have digg'd and pored myself into the…| princeofcairo.livejournal.com
Once more GenCon returns to its rightful time slot and its rightful "actually in physical space" quantum state, so once more I return to GenCon! My schedule remains somewhat fluid at this juncture, as I suppose do many folks', but here's what I know as of (checks notes) three days before I leave…| princeofcairo.livejournal.com
Robert Munroe (Ensign, Lexington militia, KIA 19 April 1775, Lexington Green) Kareem M. Nikoui (Lance Cpl, 2nd Bn, 1st Marine Regt, 1st Marine Div, I Marine Exp Force, USMC, KIA 26 August 2021, Kabul Airport, Afghanistan) And all 559,328 in between.| princeofcairo.livejournal.com
I'm so out of practice with these that I've left it to almost the last minute but ... come see ME at ChupacabraCon in soon-to-be-far-too-sunny Austin Texas this coming weekend!! My events such as I know them (and I may be rusty at this but not so rusty as to fail to shrug eloquently when asked…| princeofcairo.livejournal.com
Once more I flee the gray skies of a Chicago February for the sunny Bay Area, and wouldnt you know its actually supposed to be sunny this time out! My technical excuse for such flight is itself back out, namely, DunDraCon 45, now in the Santa Clara Marriott after oh so many years jammed…| princeofcairo.livejournal.com
So I bought some of that Georgian (Republic of, not State of) Ajika spice blend from Trader Joes a while back, and not wanting to work too hard on dinner Friday, I thought Ill just put this on some chicken thighs and make a Georgian vegetable dish to go with. Rejecting…| princeofcairo.livejournal.com
Ive split my attendance at the Chicago International Film Festival between virtual and in-person screenings, the latter of which appear below. Bereft as I will be this year of the boon companionship of his_regard (work thing) I turn to my Friends community to step into the vacant boon slot and…| princeofcairo.livejournal.com
Robert Munroe (Ensign, Lexington militia, KIA 19 April 1775, Lexington Green) Bryan Cooper Mount (SGT, Troop B, 1st Sqdn, 73rd Cavalry Regt, 2nd Infantry Bde CT, US Army, KIA 21 Jul 2020, eastern Syria) And all 559,315 in between.| princeofcairo.livejournal.com
The good people of DragonCon having forgiven me for my dalliance with WorldCon last year, I once more return to the Harley-Quinn-choked streets and hotel lobbies of Atlanta for the show that asks "what if we literally had something for anyone who has ever known who Harley Quinn is" and delivers me…| princeofcairo.livejournal.com
As is my ineffable habit whenever the World Science Fiction Convention immanentizes in the World's Greatest City, I am once more attending Chicago Worldcon this year. And as so often transpires, I'm on a slight dusting of panels and events therein, and as always transpires I know nothing about any…| princeofcairo.livejournal.com
With only half the Batgirls, and with extra masks, Dragon Con resumes this Labor Day weekend in Atlanta. All attendees, guests, and personnel must be vaxxed, and I count as guests this year as I have each and every year theyve had me. This year, this is what I bring (along with my…| princeofcairo.livejournal.com
I first made this (or its precursor) about a decade ago during the year that, inspired to frenzy by Paula Wolfert's superb Couscous and Other Good Food From Morocco, I taught myself a whole bunch of Moroccan recipes. (I was also inspired by eating Moroccan merguez sausage in San Francisco and…| princeofcairo.livejournal.com