Back from Nerdapalooza, which was totally awesome. Saw live shows featuring everyone from Zealous1 to Schaffer the Darklord. Freestyled in the parking lot with people like Shammers, Shinobi, Epic-1, and Loki. May have ended up in the background of a rap video featuring MC Lars and MC Frontalot. And finally fulfilled my quest to make pizza for all of Emergency Pizza Party.

Not a bad return home either. Some long-awaited packages of games were here when I returned, and the next night I went off to a big poetry slam hosted by national champion Taylor Mali. He read some poems but was not competing, which left the door open for me to win. My prize was a toy stegosaurus, but getting to perform poetry on the same stage as Taylor Mali was the real prize.

The inimitable Don Vito is hard at work on his new album "Admin Access", which I strongly advise everyone to download as soon as it is released. I am doubly eager for his completion of it, first simply because it will be awesome, but secondly because once that album is complete, he mentioned that he might be willing to help me work on a concept project I had in mind... perhaps I'll have something interesting for you in 2010.

Leave the Cage.