This is it, the weekend of July 18-20 and the start of the JumpCon tour across the US. A new experience in science fiction conventions and with it, I am podcasting from each event with the existing audio podcast and the launch of the video podcast interviewing the numerous guests and attendees alike. Doctor Who: Podshock is also having a live show here and even Dave “AC” Cooper is flying in from the UK to join Ken Deep and myself all live on stage together for it.

There’s only one problem. We are not in Boston. There is no Boston show as of just days before the event.

I am still trying to pick up all the pieces here on what happened. There is so much that I simply don’t know. But what I do know is what is not happening. 

Right now, Sunday evening on the 20th of June, I thought I would be reporting from the convention and wrapping up the three day event. Instead I am posting a short entry in my personal blog here from my home.

My intent is not to climb on a soapbox and talk of my disappointment and frustration about it and the weeks of work and energy I put into it, and my own personal investment and plans I made around being on tour with it. No, not here, not now.

I like others involved caught a dream. The dream that was to be what JumpCon was promising. What immediately came to my mind this week in the aftermath is a line from the 1988 film, Tucker: The Man and his Dream. In it, Martin Landau’s character says the following, “When I was a little kid, maybe 5 years old in the old country, my mother used to say to me, she warned me... she'd say, don't stand too close to people, you'll catch their dreams.... years later I realized I misunderstood her, she said germs, not dreams.... you'll catch their germs!”

Yes, it may have been a dream I caught. But it was more than just that. Producing and directing the multiple shows while on the tour was to be my job and livelihood for the foreseeable future.

So what does my future entail, difficult to say. As Yoda would say, “Always in motion is the future.”  Stay tuned here and on arttrap.com for further details.

In the meanwhile, please don’t stand too close to people, you may catch their dreams.