remembering
This weekend was ComFest, Community Festival, the biggest local music festival in Ohio (at least it's really really big, so I guess it probably is). 5 stages, 3 days... it's quite insane. Two of our friends sell vintage wares there, and there is always great ethnic and festival food. I forgot to get my Elephant Ear, so we'll have to wait for Pumpkin Festival to get that.
One of the best things about ComFest is running into people you haven't seen in years. Or maybe in only one year, since the prior ComFest. Usually, our friends have a monopoly on ComFest reacquaintances. This year, we didn't really run into anyone until yesterday.
Can I tell you how surreal it is to stand there, talking to one person, whom one of you lived with/next-door to, and have an old roommate of the other of you walk by and begin chatting, and then realize that both the folks you both are talking to had a third, shared, roommate? And both of your worlds shrink just a little more.
Unfortunately, nobody knows what happenned to that roommate. He dropped off the earth, or something.
Anyway, the good news is, my old roommate is living not far from my new house, and I always enjoyed hanging out with him, so we exchanged numbers and I might see more of him. He's back in school, working on an Advertising degree at CCAD. "If you're gonna sell out, sell out in the biggest way possible!" he said. Drucifer, prince of friggin darkness. Or something. For those of you reading my blog for a while, you'll remember me mentioning a friend with nephews Brick and Wood. This is that friend.
I mentioned to Nala that Dru used to be one hell of a GM for Shadowrun (and Paranoia), and that since we had all been talking about running a game, maybe he'd be up for running it. He said much as he would go along with the idea, he wouldn't play...
I don't think it would quite be the same unless I was staying up for 3 days straight, totally sleep (and food) deprived, running strictly on caffeine.
At any rate, nice to know he's in the neighborhood and doing well.
Note: Shadowrun was put out by FASA. I could not get to the official Shadowrun RPG site, nor FASA's site, but I did get to shadowrun.com which went to MicrosoftGamesInsider.com. The link I found (above) was for supplemental materials. Then I read that Shadowrun was owned by WizKids, makers of HeroClix. Now, on WizKids site, I see that WizKids was just bought by Topps, the baseball card folks. Well, the WizKids site has nothing but a version of HeroClix called Shadowrun Duels. No listing of the game books, etc. So maybe that means all the source books are collectibles now. Time for an ebay check.