Dragon Con

I'm a guest again at Dragon Con this weekend, here in ol' Atlanta. If you're interested in finding me, I'll be wandering around but checking in now and then at both the White Wolf and Holistic Design booths in the exhibit hall; you can leave messages for me at either booth. You can also come to my panel on Saturday:

Horror Gaming
Description: A lot of RPGs feature "dark" material, but what truly makes a great horror game? Gamers and writers talk about the ways to inspire fear amongst the players.
Time: Sat 04:00 pm Location: Cairo (Length: 1 Hour)

What's in a name?

I took the title of this blog from my latest purchase and reading pursuit: The Secret Commonweath: An essay on the nature and actions of the subterranean (and for the most part) invisible people, heretofore going under the name of Elves, Fauns & Fairies by Robert Kirk.

This handsome little hardback book has an introduction by Marina Warner, who was almost (and we hope shall be in the future) a presenter at the Mythic Journeys conference.

This odd little essay was written in 1691, but was not actually published until much later, in 1815 by Sir Walter Scott. I might tell you more about it here as I read more of it.

The groundhog peeks out of his den

I created this so I'd have a handle to use when posting on The Chumps of Choice blog -- a reading group for Pynchon's Against the Day.

But maybe I'll actually use this thing.

Maybe.