Festival people watching the early stages of the eclipse.
For those of you who may have noticed, it’s been a bit quiet around here, for various reasons. One was that I made a promise to myself not to post unless it’s to show actual hobby progress. If you’re a fan of my opinionated meanderings don’t worry, I’ll break that resolution soon enough I’m sure…
I’ve also been away for the last fortnight, traveling with my family to far north Queensland to see the total solar eclipse. It was an epic journey involving planes, rainforests, beaches, dangerous heat, nomadically roaming from one campsite to the next, and then planes again.
Among other things we went to Eclipse 2012, which was basically a week-long psytrance festival hastily but very effectively built around the total eclipse last Wednesday morning. David Stillberg at Tentakel once distinguished me from other Australians he’d met by saying that I wasn’t a dreadlocked neo-hippie. Yeah, sorry mate. I might not have the dreadies but I’ve just spent a week eating oily vegetarian wraps and watching people who do have dreadlocks swim naked in a crocodile infested river while an incessant beat thumped in the background. Oh so incessant. I was glad when it finally cessed.
Hey and I got to see Beats Antique too, which was cool.
The eclipse itself was pretty spectacular. I’ve never seen anything like it before, it just went dark at 6:30 in the morning, about as dark as dusk but with none of the usual colours. Everything just went grey and silent for a few minutes and then the sun came back again. Eerie.
Oh and when I got back I heard from Capn Stoogey that Maelstrom games had folded. I knew it, I knew this would happen. I ordered some models (thankfully only about 20 AUD worth) way back in June, and when they just kept crazily lowering their prices and delaying filling their orders I had a bad feeling they were kaput.
Does anyone know if I get my money back from liquidators or something? Or am I just out 20 bucks?
November 22nd, 2012 at 9:53 am
You’ve got something else you need to write about too:
http://thefrontlinegamer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/liebster-blog-award.html
November 22nd, 2012 at 4:08 pm
LOL Frontline keep driving him that dirty hippie shirking his blogging we’ll gettem yet!
November 22nd, 2012 at 7:41 pm
Ha ha thanks for that Frontline!
And Minitrol, I’m not normally dirty (and a bit of a stealth hippie) but I had to go for five days without a shower so I deserve it this time I suppose!
November 22nd, 2012 at 7:49 pm
Ha! Anyway I can hardly throw stones, I am damn lucky we don’t live in a yurt!
November 23rd, 2012 at 3:17 pm
This is a cool Blog. I’ll be following your stuff from now on
Its always happy times when I find another Ausy Blog to check out!
Mine is at macharianthunderguard.blogspot.com.au if you are interested.
November 25th, 2012 at 9:44 am
@Ray, you had me as soon as I saw the Praetorian rough riders. I like your style old bean!
I’ve added your blog to my roll, but I don’t get to read blogs as much as I should these days unfortunately. By the way, where are you in Australia? I’m in Canberra.
March 19th, 2013 at 12:19 am
I missed this comment last year, oops! I’m in Adelaide. I read that you are sadly closing your blog. I’m sorry to hear that. I also am slogging through the end of a PhD. It’s horrible. And with a baby on the way I hope it’s done soon.
Best of luck with life! If after a break you return to gaming and blogging I will be happy to continue reading your stuff. And if not, well that’s OK too.
March 19th, 2013 at 1:50 pm
Thanks Ray. I’ll probably be back some day, when things quieten down. Good luck with the PhD!