Snail Shell 
3rd Level Indigo Feather

As some of you may know, the title and general theme of my blog is the graphic novel Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson. It's about a journalist who is disenchanted with the world around him and how he attempts to use telling the truth to the mass populous to improve an otherwise dystopian society. Why I chose this for my blog theme escapes me.

There's a line in the book along the lines of "Once, just once, I'd like to know what it's like to go a day without

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I've just started evening shift at work, which means I'm up at around 10am, leave for work at 12:30, done around 10:30pm, visiting Maggie ASAP afterwards and in bed around 2am. As such, time to sit and write the traditional post-gathering masterpiece and why each individual person was truly epic has been shat upon like an Uwe Boll film rendition over some of the greatest video game masterworks of our time.

So I'll try to do the condensed version.

NEST 2011 was the

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The problem with having blogs on the TMF is that when someone on the TMF says something to you that makes you feeling like stabbing 40 people at random, if you use your blog to vent about it, they'll read it and they'll call you on it.

That is all.

FROST 2011 is already booked at a FANTASTIC venue. Get your passports filled out and book your flights and time off work!

FROST 2011 will be FRIDAY JUNE 24 through SUNDAY JUNE 26!

Be there or remain covered in hair (this means YOU, Morgan).

From: hr@snailshellenterprises.com
To: snail.shell@snailshellenterprises.com
Re: FROST gathering

Dear Mr. Shell,

We have reviewed your performance as the organizer of the most recent play party for the Friendly Relevent Ontario Society of Ticklephiles (FROST). We have compared this to your most recent activities within the company.

As you are, no doubt, well aware, your performance record has been less than exemplary. However, past

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