I've seen these in person, they are really cool! If you like Tabletop RPGs and want a cool bow to carry your supplies aorund in, check it out!

https://www.kickstarter.com/project.....ial-gaming-box

For those interested, I am finally becoming active on my Furry Network account.

https://beta.furrynetwork.com/bossasaur/

Give me a follow if ya want :)

I'm not leaving FA (at least not yet), I'm just expanding a little and trying to become a bit more active.

If you like Kaiju and are interested in the KaijuBox - here's my unboxing video

https://youtu.be/uuowx0vApGY

I've been working with her for years and she's awesomely talented and great to work with - you can see the work shes done for me here:

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17096463/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/15121049/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14322678/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14322599/

Here is her commission post!

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8006812/

People are really enjoying this year's video - check it out! :)

https://youtu.be/hGRM8bpRR2E

Any furs going to Wrestlemania?

I'll be there and am staying at the Wrestlecon hotel (The DOWNTOWN HYATT REGENCY).

If anyone wants to hang out (or share a hotel room as we have room for an extra body or two) send me a note!

Will be in Dallas from Thursday March 31 - Mon April 4

If you have a room already or are a Dallas local and just wanna hang out, I'll be having a room party on Sat April 2nd with some local friends.

Next weekend I will be in Rhode Island for Rhode Island Comicon. Hope to run into some fellow furs while there. Note your contact info if you wanna hang!

If you've not seen the Heisei Gamera Trilogy, you should go watch it right now!

Here's a taste https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWHoOEoO0hQ

Also can't wait for this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdQuGni4bJ0

Will be headed out to Dragon*Con on Sept 3rd and man it can't get here fast enough!

Can't wait - if anyone else will be there, drop me a note and maybe we'll hang out!

Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0gh52xRsVI

Just throwin' it out there for folks who might be interested in meeting the big red T-Rex.

I am a Pittsburgh Local and will be attending with a few other locals, which means I will be missing out on Hotel shenanigans unless I am specifically invited to Hotel shenanigans.

Always happy to meet new people. I will be volunteering in the video game room and wherever I am needed for much of the con, you'll know me because I'll likely be the only one there in a wheelchair and missing a leg.

Come on up and say hi, I don't bite and amputation isn't contagious :)

I'll also be at the Supersponsor Dinner, so, if you'll be there, please come say hi. :)

I bought a new video camera for the Fursuit Parade this year, so, if you're parading this year, look for me and make sure to mug as much as you can for the camera!

Also, if anyone wants my cell info, I will share it privately in notes. I'm pretty knowledgeable about Pittsburgh and the surrounding area and can point out places if interest and be guide if need be.

Just purchased my Super Sponsor Ticket today, can't wait!

You owe it to yourself to watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF1Q56YAo0Q

Off to Dragon*Con I go - for the fourth year in a row!

If you're gonna be there, drop me a note and maybe we'll run into each other!

That's me in the Pittsburgh Pirates hat :)

http://www.wtae.com/news/Furries-re.....6787738#!8as6i

Where are you staying?
Home - I live just north of PIttsburgh

When are you arriving and how long are you staying?
Thurs-Sun

Who will you be rooming with?
I have no roomies but might be willing to be a taxi :)

Who will you hang out with during the convention?
Whomever wants to hang out with me. I have a few friends I hope to meet up with and am always happy to meet new people.

What is the best way to find you?
Phone (note me for my number) - I'm hard to miss on the convention floor - I'm the dude in the wheelchair with one leg - most likely sporting a Grimlock or Godzilla shirt

Are there any panels you might be attending?
of the things listed@ http://www.anthrocon.org/ , considereing:

Gotta Get Jim Cummings Autograph at some point during the weekend.
pre-con social mixer
Dealer's room & Artist Alley
Video gaming
Characters & Dialogue
Plot & Structure
Description & Scene
Velociraptor: Canibalism Demo
Uncle Kage's Story Hour
Writing After Dark
Gathering of the Scalies
Fursuite Parade
PA Furries Meet & Greet
Dragon Furry Meet & Greet
2's Rant
A Novel Idea
Kage/2-gether

How tall are you?
5'10" (but in a wheelchair)

What do you look like?
http://tinyurl.com/pkjh9f9 (i'm on the left)

Will you be suiting?
nope

Do you do free art/trades/commissions or have prints/CDs or <insert artsy thing here>?
not yet

Are you mated/in a relationship?
no - but looking

Can I talk to you?
Please do!

Can I touch you?
I don't mind a hug now and then, but please ask first.

Can I visit your room?
I don't have one. :)

Can I buy you drinks?
Really depends on the circumstances

Can I give you stuff?
I like stuff!

Can I hug or snuggle with you?
Please ask first :)

Are you nice?
Yes

Will you be going to parties?
If I get invited. :).

If I see you, how should I get your attention?
Come up and say hi. Call me Mike or Rex - I like meeting new people.

Can I come with you for food/fun/etc?
Of course!

Can I take your picture?
If you really want to :)

What's your goal(s) for the con this year?
I just wanna hang out and meet new people, get some autographs and talk to artists. I like talking wiht fellow dragons about my writing and showing off the art I've had done. I love gaming and will likely try to get involved in any games of werewolf or Cards against Humanity that are going on :)

TLDR

Without a doubt, I have to say that Texas Comicon was one of the best experiences I’ve had in a very long time. Everyone, from the Hotel, to the guests, to the con staff were a real joy to work with and made my weekend one to remember very fondly. Read on for more details.

Day 1 – June 19

I wouldn’t normally start my trip summary off at the Pittsburgh Airport, but the hospitality of the Springhill Suites reached out to me before I’d really started my journey. When I was waiting for my plane, I received an email from Elizabeth, the manager at Springhill, noting that both my package and my scooter rental had arrived safely and they wanted to know when I’d be there, since they only had 6 rooms left. I called the back and told them that I’d planned to be there around 2AM and planned to hang out until it was time to get into my room (June 20th) and the manager said that she’d hold a room for me on the first floor with 2 double beds and allow me to go straight in as soon as I arrived … at a reduced cost. Thanks, Elizabeth! You got my journey off to a great start, and it’s a good thing too considering I didn’t get in till about 4am and crashing in the lobby wouldn’t have been very pleasant.

Day 2 – June 20

I was up again around 9am and decided to grab some complimentary breakfast before they took it down for the day. While speaking to a lady at the front desk, I was approached by David Sobelev (TF Prime Shockwave/BW Depthcharge) and we had a great conversation. He was very nice to me and I was a bit disappointed that I’d forgotten my TF Prime and BW dvds as I would have loved to have had him add his signatures to them!

I decided to go check out the con and, of course, bee-lined for the autograph room.

Jake Roberts greeted me by waving wildly at me from his booth. I went over and said “You’v been waving at me for 10 minutes, what can I do for you?” He said, “Hey man, I needed to f*ck with somebody!” We talked a bit. I asked him how he was feeling. He seemed to be having a bad day pain-wise, but laughed it off. I bought an autograph from him and he signed a tee-shirt for me and gave it to me as a gift. I would check in with him for the rest of the con and see if he needed anything and he was always very gracious, but didn’t ask me to run any errands for him.

I worked my way over to Gregg Berger, who was one of the main reasons I’d come to the con in the first place. I’d been wanting him to sign my Masterpiece Grimlock box since I got it in 2009. We had a nice conversation and I went back to my room to collect my junk for all the voice actors to sign. Gregg signed my Masterpiece Grimlock and my Matrix of leadership DVD boxset. Next, Neil Ross was nice enough to sing my Matrix Boxset, followed by Michael Bell. I had a very nice conversation with Mike about Soul Reaver. I wish I hadn’t missed his solo Q/A panel as he seems to have a lot of really good industry stories. Then I stopped by David Sobelev and we talked a bit and he signed a TF:Prime Shockwave 8x10 for me. He mentioned he was happy that I got to meet Gregg as he knew that was pretty important to me. Lastly, I had a nice conversation with Jeffery Combs and had him autograph a Ratchet 8x10 and ‘something else’ for a friend of mine. (I’ll note it is a bit surreal having a friendly conversation with Herbert West)

I putzed around a bit in the dealer rooms and artist alley for a while, chatting with different people and asking them about their art, or items, making note of prices and cool stuff that I’d like or might make nice gifts. The real gem I uncovered was the booth of J.R. Knoll. He was an author and his books had lots of fantasy covers, depicting dragons and mostly fantasy settings. Something told me to talk to him, so I introduced myself and started asking him about his writing. Turns out he’s a self-published fantasy/horror author who mentored under Peter S Beagle. Anyone who knows me also knows I hold Peter S Beagle in very high regard and he has been very supportive of my own writing. I picked up one of JR’s books for the flight home, feeling inspired by his story of how he writes while working a full-time day job.

I also ran into Dan Khanna and bought a few prints form his table (and got him a coke since he was thirsty and couldn’t leave his table – you owe me Dan! :D)

I finished out the day attending the Transformers voice actor panel comprised of Gregg Berger, Neil Ross, Michael Bell, David Sobelev, and Jeffery Combs. I need to take this moment to explain how much I LOVE hearing people talk about their lives and careers, especially people involved in creative vocations. Hearing to how the g1 voice actors used to sit in the parking lot and listen to Scatman Corothers play his ukulele was an absolute joy for me. Hearing the comparisons of Voice Actors vs Face Actors was really enlightening and hilarious (especially Neil Ross’s story about Lionel Standard during the VO sessions of TFTM.) You can check out the VA panel here: http://youtu.be/WMKw1NXqPrQ

I finished out the night with some pizza and the last 2 episodes of GOT and then went to bed.

DAY 3 - June 21

4am – Phone ringing. Front Desk wants to know if I know anybody from Shreveport, LA. Well, yes I did, but I wasn’t sure when they were gonna show up. Soon, I was in a room full of fellow Transformers nerds: Sharon, Daryn, and Morgan, and all was well … if a bit groggy. We spoke, caught up as much as our foggy heads would allow, then went to sleep.

Saturday morning found us grabbing a quick bite to eat at the breakfast bar, where I caught a glimpse of Alan Oppenheimer, but didn’t want to bother him in the hotel. Later I caught him in the autograph room and got a photo and his autograph. I told him how much I loved Skeletor and his response was (in Skeletor’s voice) “I know you do!”

Peter Cullen was only there on Saturday and getting his autograph required the purchase of a $200 package. While I do want him to sign my Matrix DVD boxset, I already had his autograph from Botcon 2006, so I decided that I’ll tack him down another time to get that taken care of. There will always be more cons and more opportunities to get signatures scrawled all over my DVD box.

Attended the Bob Budanski panel, and enjoyed hearing him talk about his days in comics. Being more of an industry junkie, I love hearing about other folks’ creative processes and Bob is very much all business. His stories about how he helped create character traits, mythos, and other pieces of the Transformers universe that are often worked into the modern series were fantastic. He is very matter of fact and sees his time with the Transformers as “a job that I did that you people still seem to still like.” I liked his matter of factness about how he left the series in 1989 because he was “burnt out on Transformers” and “it was a dying toyline.” He doesn’t romanticize his time spent working with Transformers and I really respect that. His perspective brings a true dose of reality to the business aspect of comic books and franchises. I chatted with him about a commission request I had, and he has my reference sheet, but was unable to get to it before I left for the airport. He did, however, give me his card and said he’d be in touch.

The rest of the day was spent chatting with the LA crew and reminiscing about old MUSH times (and explaining them to the non-MUSHers :)) Eventually, we watched a few Dinosaucers episodes and marveled in its’ horrible awesomeness

Day 4 – June 22

This was the last day of the con, so most of the morning as spent packing and checking out of the hotel. I poked around for last minute gift ideas for a few friends and then rushed over to the Gregg Berger panel (Video coming soon.) Greg was gracious and as funny and informative as ever. Of course my video crapped out when I asked my question about if he’d ever worked with Mel Blanc, but he tells a great story, so maybe you can ask him about that someday.

After Greg was done, I headed off to the airport, unable to really say my goodbyes to anyone from the LA crew other than Morgan. Daryn and Tut, you were in my thoughts and I had a great time with you this weekend. You can count on me hanging with you again, should the opportunity ever arise again.

On the plane ride home, I read a good portion of JR Knolls’ Shalhy’s Quest and must say it is a real gem. Fans of “The Last Unicorn” will love it and I can’t wait to share JR’s work with my friends.

All in all, I had a great weekend and want to thank everybody involved. The Hotel staff made me feel more welcome than any I’ve ever encountered in all my travels. The con staff were great and showed real concern that I was able to get around and do everything I wanted to do. The guests were gracious and extremely generous with their time. Reconnecting with old friends and making new ones was just the cherry on top.

It was a great weekend.

My heartfelt thanks to everyone involved.

I'll be at both. Hope to see a few of you!

For those few who I know personally, fire me off a note if you want my cel info and need A) a place to stay B) Transport C) Just wanna say Hi at the con.

For Texas Comicon - I have a room and I get into San Antonio at about 2 am on Friday 6/20 and fly out at 4:00 PM on Sunday

For Anthrocon - I live 20 minutes outside of Pittsburgh and don't have a hotel room this year (hopefully next year), but am willing to help out friends in need.

Lastly, I will also be at Dragoncon 2014.

So, yes, I've seen it … and I will definitely be seeing it again soon! Now, I’m gonna stay spoiler free (in spite of a MUSH person inadvertently spoiling something major for me *grumble*), but I wanted to give my initial impressions after digesting it for a day.

Much like 2010’s “Monsters”, Garrett Edwards’ “Godzilla” is a very somber, character driven story full of eye-popping visuals and emotion. He has a way of having his actors put EVERYTHING on the table in every scene. There are very little laughs or smiles in this movie. Everything is played very straight and the sense of dread and impending catastrophe grows throughout the movies’ 123 minute runtime.

Everything felt VERY real in this movie. I like that Edwards chose new locations for this movie. Hawaii and San Francisco are the primary locations in this movie, so Tokyo and New York are spared this round. Don’t fret Japanese Goji fans, there's plenty going on in Japan as well!

In short, I loved this movie a lot. It’s a very different sort of Godzilla movie compared to most of its predecessors. It’s probably closest in tone to my favorite Godzilla movie of all time: Godzilla 1984 – which also carried a very somber tone and felt like a horror movie rather than your typical Kaiju film.

I think the coolest part of the entire experience what that this was the very first Godzilla movie my friend Dave ever saw. He literally had no frame of reference and was excitedly asking me about Goji after the movie was over. To see this reaction out of someone who went into this movie as a clean slate tells me one thing: Garrett Edwards did his job and he did it well.

Lastly, I’ll touch upon Godzilla’s design. This is not my favorite Godzilla design, that prize I give to Millennium Godzilla, but I’m fine with it. I’m a large cuddly fellow myself and I’m fine with the King of the Monsters being like me. This design has a lot of personality and I can’t wait to see what he does next!

Been busy with work. It's been killing my creativity bigtime, but I still poke my head in here and am really looking forward to Anthrocon.

Hope to see a few of you there and have a great time as always!

Things are changing rapidly for me, so hopefully I will be able to return to my writing soon!

I started one.

https://www.weasyl.com/~bossasaur

Not Scalie related or anything of the sort, but I have been working on a website template system for my workplace using Twitter Bootstrap, jquery, and coldfusion 10.

I literally put in 5 weeks worth of work over the course of 3 weeks!

Neither are fully complete yet, but it's getting there and I can finally relax as I hit all of my deadlines.

project 1: http://automall.wddemos.com/

project 2: http://ultra10.wddemos.com/

I haven't fallen off the face of the earth, just really busy with work right now - haven't been active since Christmas and have a HUGE backlog of stuff to peruse.

I'll get caught up ASAP! Miss you folks, but fear not, the tyrant will return!