Save the Robot – Chris Dahlen

(Pic by Sklathill)

This is really just a stub post to tell you all that 1. GDC was awesome and 2. GDC was a little weird, in the best way, 3. I have at least three essays I want to write after last week, plus interviews to type up and other great stuff, and 4. I met dozens of fantastic people, as well as old friends that I’d never actually seen in meatspace.

Oh and also: that over at the AV Club, John Teti and I wrote extensive overviews of the week. John worked like a hero and landed some great stories, and I went around writing up weirdo stuff. I’m really pleased with how it turned out, and as usual, the comments were terrific. Read it all here!

So I’m here at my first morning of GDC. I would publish a Work Links but even though I’ve been eye-achingly, head-scratchingly busy for the past month, I don’t have many links to show for it. A lot of my coolest work (including stuff in Edge #200) has been done with no byline. Other stuff – a press release for David Sylvian’s upcoming album, Manafon, which is one of the most engrossing and beautiful things I’ve ever heard – will run soon. So, if you stop by regularly, just know I’m keeping myself active and interested and busy as hell.

I’ll post goodies from GDC as I get ‘em. I’m going to do a couple of blog posts for the Onion AV Club, look around for story ideas, and of course, meet all kinds of people I’ve never seen in real life, a process that started yesterday morning when I ran into Darius “Tinysubversions” Kazemi and his colleagues right at Logan Airport. First business cards swapped. Achievement unlocked.

I also wrote a feature for the Wire alt-weekly about Kittery-based performance and art space Buoy. I’m really proud of this feature. I wish I’d given myself for more time to work on it, but this is a group of talented and lively artists who I’ve been following for a while, and it was great to speak with them about how they approach this awesome and “no proft” venture. If you’re traveling through Portland or Boston and you either want to see a show or book one, check the place out. The awesome Nat Baldwin plays regularly, and they’ve booked Dirty Projectors, Sister Suvi and Shapes + Sizes (who were both AMAZING), and Chriss Sutherland, and they have a show coming up in April with Mary Halvoron and Jessica Pavone. And a gallery show with Jacob Ouillette is on the calendar for April 3. Whatever you’re into, they’ll find a way to blow your mind.

And I wrapped up the Battlestar Galactica recaps. You can read them all here. Now that it’s over, (and now that I have my Friday nights back), I realize I’m really gonna miss that show. I don’t watch many shows but when I’m in, I get sucked into my fiction, and that was one of my favorites.

Too bad the ending was a dud.