Blizzcon 2009

This afternoon, after I interview inarguably one of the most interesting 100-year-old residents ever — a staple of the media, probably from the advent of anything that could be considered a medium — and knocking out two political stories (and typing up the sheriff’s department’s crime log, if there’s time), I’ll be heading down to Anaheim to get my press pass for Blizzcon.

This year, my coverage will be going into the Daily Press’ features section, the paper’s teen magazine and out to the corporate intranet for other Freedom Communications papers to use. I’ll also be firing off a barrage of pieces to the Associated Press for them to scatter on the wind like dandelion seeds.

While you wait patiently for my coverage (and possibly my byline, depending on your local paper’s feelings about AP bylines) to show up in your local paper, you can follow my live-blogging of the convention via Twitter. My Blizzcon-centric feed is the cleverly named @blizzconnews.

And of course, I want to see if I can activate the Grunty the Murloc Marine World of Warcraft in-game pet tonight. The murloc costume back in 2007 worked on Thursday night, but last year’s bear mount — with murloc copilot — didn’t work until the subsequent Tuesday server maintenance.

It’ll be even more awesome if the murloc space marine (an homage to the forthcoming StarCraft II) interacts with the zergling pet (an homage to StarCraft I) from the original World of Warcraft collector’s edition. There’s at least two other pets that interact with other pets this way now.

UPDATE: Yep, the zergling and Grunty definitely do interact. Depending on who gets the drop on whom, the loser dies messily. Very fun.

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