Adieu to the Rock of Boston.  One of the sadder moments in the retrospective weekend was Adam 12 playing bands that he said he’d always wanted to play and never could.  One suspects that had be been allowed to do so, WBCN would still be going strong.

This may be my last post here.  I’ll find out soon.

Today’s show was the last at WBCN. As you know, T&R will move to 98.5 FM. I will probably be doing my schtick there too. I don’t know what I will be doing on their site, though.

Now that’s more like it!  There is both a con and a LARP this weekend.

Gaming

• Up in New Hampshire, at the Courtyard by Marriott Hotel in Nasuha, evil wins at the Open Gaming Convention all weekend. Enjoy RPGs, board games, card games, miniatures, painting, video games, vendors and more! 3 Day adult registration is $45 dollars.
• Interested in a LARP? Saturday at Camp Harrington, Boylston MA from 9 AM to 9 PM is the latest chapter in the NERO Saga: Volta – False Redemption. More infor at the link.
• Speaking of gaming, yeah, more Magic 2010 at Pandemonium.  You know the drill.  Two magic tourneys are happening at Pandemonium this weekend.  The first day is a cash challenge, with the grand prize of $175.  (Entry fee is $45.).  This event will be the same tournament structure if you make it to day 2!
• The next day is the Grand Prix trial for the Grand Prix Boston on August 1st - August 2nd.  $25.00 Entry, Sealed Deck with Top 8 Draft. REL Competitive. Qualifying event. Grand Prix Trials are a series of tournaments where players compete for a set of 3 early byes at Grand Prix Boston. The sealed format is 6 packs of M10 with a top 8 Draft. The top place is only the byes at the tournament, other prizes will be boosters of M10 based on attendance.

Film

• The Brattle:
  • You can pay tribute to the late David Carradine Friday through Monday by attending one of the double feature showings of both parts of Kill Bill.
  • Their look back at 1984 continues with the sci-fi classics Repo Man (Friday and Saturday) and The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (Sunday and Monday).
  • Imagine being challenged to make a film in 24 hours, on a specific day, say from 10PM on Friday, July 17th to 10PM on Saturday, July 18th and you had to have the theme of rent and have a light bulb as a surprise element. Well, over a dozen Boston filmmakers took that challenge and you can see the results this Saturday at 5 PM at the Boston Film Race!
• The Harvard Film Archive is having a Sherlock Holmes retrospective.  The most interesting showings is the Hound of the Baskervilles double feature Saturday at 7 PM.  Both the 1939 and the 1959 versions will be shown.
• The Coolidge:
  • This Saturday’s Midnight showing is the cult classic The Room.
  • Summer is over half done, but that is no reason not to watch the quintessential summer movie.  Jaws swims its way onto the screen, Monday 7 PM.
• The Puppet Showplace Theater in Brookline offers a free screening of Coraline this Saturday at 6:30.  Donations welcome.

Obviously, if you are reading this, you are probably aware that WBCN will be going off the air and becoming all digial/web.  The frequency will go to WBMX, currently 98.5.  Their present position on the dial will become a sports talk station and T&Rs’ new home.

As for your humble servant, I don’t know what the fate of Warp Speed will be.  I presume that I will be on the new station.  If not, I will probably get my own URL and do a more SF oriented site for New England fandom.

Rest assured, I will keep you informed.

…at the weather and stuff that’s been happening in my life and so on, I feel the need to be evil.  Click this link and feel the agony.  (Kinda NSFW.)

Misery loves company!

For some reason I’ve not been emailed about this week’s show.  And I see The Dungeon has been knocked off the menu.  Am I on the way out?  It’d be a pity if I were.  Well, I will still keep it up unless the site gets cancled.

Want to catch me at Arisia? Here are my panels (All times PM.  Panels I am moderating are in bold):

• Friday:
  • 8: Super-Mega-Epic Crossovers
  • 9: Uncivil War
  • 10: Godzilla at 55
• Saturday:
  • 1: Who Watches the Watchmen?
  • 2: They Can Be Heroes
• Sunday:
  • 2: Guilty Pleasures
  • 8: From K-9 to Pixel: Pets in Fandom
  • 10: Raising the Next Generation
• Monday:
  • 1: Your Fandom Origin Story
  • 2: I Can Haz Panel?

I want to say, before I begin, I live everyone in the tale.  There are no bad guys, just normal human error.

I gave the gang Pandemonium gift certificates and beer for the holiday.  When I left the studio, I thought to myself the beer would be gone long beforeanyone touched the gift cards.  Soon after, I was in the bookstore and Tyler (the tall guy with the beard) said there was a problem with my friends from the radio station.

I face palmed and thought to myself, ‘What did Adolfo do now?’  My instinct was correct.  Though it was not his fault.  Fred, Crash and Rich gave him their certificates and he tried to spend them all.  Tyler would not redeem them and Adolfo left them at the store.  Tyler handed the cards to me  returned them to me.

Fast forward to New Year’s.   I got a VERY garbled version of events from a VERY drunk Adolfo and a somewhat more coherent description from Rich. Rich was bemused by this blog entry.

So, I come into the studio and well… Listen to the WSttW podcast…  the one next to the Peter Gammons interview.

I wonder what Crash will get.

If any of you go to an event after hearing about it on the T&R show or this blog, please leave feedback.  I am egotistical enough to desire the feedback.

This is Dungeon Master Jim.  Yes, I am debuting my WBCN blog.  I’ll be posting Warp Speed to the Weekend info and anything else relevant to Beantown fandom.

Speaking of WSttW…  While I am part of the Boston fan community, I an not necessarily able to cover everything.  I may not know of every special event happening at your local game stores or small cons in New England.  So, I would appreciate it if you’d send me that sort of thing.  I’d like to hear about signings, demo games and tournaments.  That way I can help you get the word out.

Hope to hear from you soon.  Live long and prosper!