Mafia

Reminder that Ricky is very highly dependent on his drugs: he messed up his dosage schedule recently, and immediately concluded that one of his neighbors used "a Mafia device" to squirt a foul-smelling liquid under his door. He was worried that it was Anthrax, but when it didn't immediately kill him his buddy suggested that it could be a slow-onset kind of Ebola. This freaked Ricky out and he tried to tell various authorities, non-authorities, and people he met randomly on the street about it, with predicable results.

He told me all this on the phone the other day. I told him that this was all just a lot of paranoid thinking, wasn't it? and he said yeah, yeah, you're right it is, OK.

I should get into the habit of calling him regularly, I suppose. Maybe once a week, make sure he's staying on the line.

Casting Call #5

So I wanna make some more Gameshelfs, starting off with no production schedule at all. This means that I'd have no regular timeslot on SCAT, and that's fine with me, becuase: hey, podcast.

I would like the next show to cover three bluffing games I like:

* Citadels
* Basari
* Werewolf

The last of these, of course, presents an opportunity to plug Volity, so I most certainly will. I think it would also be fun to shoot a live werewolf game - yes, the kind where real people are actually sitting in a circle and playing face-to-face, the kind that used to happen all the time at game conventions until the Volity version came around and made it obsolete (snort). Seriously, though, think of the fun we could have in post-production, when all the players' roles are known...

Anyway, this is a casting call. If you're in the Boston area (or could arrange to be in the Boston area without great hardship) and would like to play any of these games ON TELEVISION (where TELEVISION means COMMUNITY-ACCESS SHOW AND ALSO A PODCAST THING), let me know via comment or email. No "talent" is necessary; you just have to be willing to have fun playing games on camera. What easier path to good-geekly stardom could there be? I cannot think of one. Feel free to contact me if you just have questions about how it works, too.

I currently don't have a date in mind other than "sometime this year". It probably won't happen before late September, and may involve two shoots, with one dedicated to the werewolf game. I will post again when the date firms up - I need to actually reactivate my lapsed SCAT membership and stuff first, make a studio-time dategrab, and gather a crew together. Whee