I spent last weekend effectively out of town at a game convention. Yes, I totally was that geek playing Eurogames for three days with hundreds of other geeks at a hotel near LAX. It was great, except for the whole no sleeping thing. I ran my first game of Werewolf (of course I've played before, first time modding) with a truly excessive 26 participants. If there's a great big HUH on your face right now, I'm just saying, you need to play. This game is much fun.


Daniel vanquishes a foe in the swordfighting pit at Gateway2007

I've spent the last week recovering from the long weekend, which for me means passing out long before midnight every night, no matter how loud the rap/video games/stand-up comedy is blaring next door.

Last night a few friends and I saw The Jungle at the El Capitan! They're just showing it for a month to publicize celebrate the 40th anniversary special edition DVD coming out soon. Richard Sherman wandered out of the theatre before the show and stood around outside for a moment but I was way too shy to go up and introduce myself. Oh well. If the DVD transfer is what we saw last night, it's gorgeous and I can't recommend it highly enough. The panel before the show moderated by Don Hahn was great, too. Who was there?


Bruce Reitherman, voice of Mowgli and son of Woolie Reitherman, director of The Jungle Book and one of Walt's Nine Old Men.


Andreas Deja, animator.


Darleen Carr, voice of Shanti


Chad Stuart, voice of Flaps the Vulture


Richard Sherman, composer of all things awesome

Much fun. There are also videos.


Richard Sherman plays Small World as he and his brother originally wrote it.


Richard Sherman plays selections from Mary Poppins


Richard Sherman plays selections from Winnie the Pooh


Richard Sherman plays I Wanna Be Like You

There's more, but maybe that's enough of me being obsessive for the moment? The rest is on YouTube should you care to see it. Just click see more from this user and get a terrifying glimpse into how I spend my leisure dollars.

Flying up to SF tonight for my cousin's wedding tomorrow. Giants game with my parents Sunday (YAY!) then back Monday morning just in time for work. Next weekend is the only weekend this month I'm really in town-- and all I've got going is Avenue Q Saturday afternoon, games Saturday night, film festial screenings Sunday afternoon and Pink Martini at the Bowl Sunday night. The weekend after that Kevin's in town! The weekend after that I'm in Houston for my 10 year high school reunion. The weekend after that is October. Good grief. Where has the year gone?

PS-- One more video from The Jungle Book screening (mostly for my parents:) a pencil test of Baloo & Mowgli animated entirely by Frank Thomas according to Don Hahn. Apparently he and Ollie animated over half of the finished film themselves. Wow.