YaY You! jealous cat is jealous! This is when I'm usually in Cali, and I wanna gooooooooooooooooo.

ahem ...sorry.

I hope you have a super fantabulous time! The transportation stuff will get figured out.

Looking forward to hearing all about it!

do you vacation to cali regularly? to bad you won't be, coulda met up. oh well...

I think I just may be resorting to the costly means. *sigh*

I used to go to Cali about every 6 months. Two of my best quit buds are out there, and we'd celebrate our anniversaries together.

Whatever it takes, hon.

Have you tried to see how cheap a car you can get from Alamo or Dollar or one of the other cheaper rental agencies? May not be cheaper than the bus with 3 day rental (plus tolls, plus gas, plus parking in Buffalo - there are cheaper lots across the street with courtesy bus service). but the schedule would be under your control.

I'm not so worried about the schedule as the cost... but, it would be an option if I had license ;) I'm a public transit guy. Usually going out of town, I'm with someone else for the same reason... it's special occasions like this that make it a pain :)

Yep, that would be a major shortcoming of this idea - the no license thing. Well best of luck, and enjoy! It sounds way way cool!

thanks, I'm hoping to get lots of pictures, and I'm assuming others will be too :)

I finally have the whole weekend off and didn't get an invite to California (or I would have helped out with transportation).
/me is jealous also!

/me thinks about something to call into ARGNetcast about....yup, got it!

transportation between Kitchener and Buffalo? or you mean in Pasadena?

I kinda meant in Pasadena (or you could have flown to Las Vegas and we could have carpooled to LA - it's only a 5 hour drive).

hehe actually jamesi's renting a car... though we're staying in Old Town Pasadena for the weekend, with everything as they say within walking distance, so it's unlikely we'll be resorting to transportation. Only being there just over 1 day makes it easier to accept not needing transportation :)

5-hour drive??? What lane do you drive in???

I've been out of the ARG loop for quite some time now, so I might be missing something obvious, but....is it my imagination, or is the 42 Entertainment executive staff less than a third of the size it used to be, on the website? Was there some sort of split or spinoff or something like that?

good eye!
it's actually been mentioned over at unfiction... I don't know what to think yet.

But certainly we won't be meeting up with Elan and Sean this weekend :(
They're still in Seattle with their new startup

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I'm really excited about it all. I think that this is a great move for Elan, Sean, and Jim. The timing is great. I'm also anxious to see what all Jordan's new company comes up with - just imagine the fun they're having and going to have.

The biggest hit, obviously, is to 42, but they'll make it through just fine. They had put out a strong sense of the auteur which wasn't necessarily the best long term move - once the auteurs leave, then what do you have. But the fact of the matter is that while Sean & Elan are great, they also had a great team behind them. Susan, from what I've always gathered, is an amazing producer. Maureen wrote a load of Last Call Poker and some of my favorite pieces from it. Steve, well, having worked with him on Metacortechs, I know how great he is but his work for 42 has really stood up - the Dark Knight stuff has been great as was Last Call Poker (I don't know how much of either is his, but I know he's had his hand pretty deep in both). Plus, with Steve being involved with and respected in the ARG community, they'll not lose the loyalty of the hard core folks and the more casual players - well, will they even care? Some press might be a bit confused at first, but they'll figure it out with another success or two. Same with any clients or potential clients looking their way.

Really, I'm quite excited by this news. There's more than enough work to go around and this will let people better explore the space and experiment in it.

So to summarize briefly:

1) Y'all are going to be in Pasadena, approximately twenty minutes from me. May, in fact, be there already.

2) Certain luminaries have left 42 Entertainment to form their own company.

3) Also, cancer has been cured, the sky has fallen, and someone proved -- conclusively -- the single-bullet theory.

I must be a mushroom.

I've never listened to one of these before, though I'm not really sure why not. Now's as good a time as any to pay attention, so thanks for the head's up!

never? that's quite an acomplishment ;)

heh, I have somehow avoided them too. I suppose I should check this one out.

HECK yeah!

Come back with an exclusive or three.

I'm really to find out what they're planning to discuss... I mean, it's an entire netcast, and you can only reminisce so long on interesting company related info... who knows. but it'll be fun any way you swing it :)

Thank goodness you broke the news... squeee! I've been dying to talk about it!

I've been waiting and itching to blog, but no one ever replied with an answer, even after the news itself went out, so I took the risk ;)

Maybe something really exclusive or a teaser rabbithole????