*I have been canning caramel apple pie filling all day, and have lost my mind.  This is half an idea I thought up about 6 months ago. Enjoy.

Q.  Dear Attack Laurel:  My Local Laurel has asked me to be her apprentice.  She already has 400 apprentices, so I don't know if I will get the one-on-one attention and teaching opportunities I desire.  What ( Read more... )

I couldn't resist.

pinkleader started a Chuck Norris-style compilation of "Isobel 'Attack Laurel' Bedingfield Facts" on Facebook, and everyone joined in.  She sent it to me at my request (to put on the Attack Laurel pages), and I had to post it here.  I've tidied it up a bit to make it easier to read in LJ format, but otherwise left it alone.  Contributors ( Read more... )

It has come to our notice here at the Attack Laurel Academy that the SCA Knowne Worlde Handebooke (Free E With Every Purchase!) is updating its bad olde self, and the editors are soliciting articles for the newe editione.

This seems a perfect time to address the sticky issue of Persona Stories. While the personae of all our Attack Laurel alumni ( ( Read more... )

I had a dream last night that I was trying to get into a PhD Arts program, and I'd taken my test and made my random object (ah, dreams), and was waiting in my office to get the packet saying whether I had made it, had failed, or needed to do basically an additional test to get in.

(Um, Yeah.  My brain.  I'm getting somewhere with this.)

( but it may take a couple of paragraphs... )

Act One:  A delightful grassy courtyard, people sitting on benches.  Two depressed-looking apprentices come out, with a board strung between them, roped around their necks.  This is the lectern.  A dapper gentleman in a very fine appliqued doublet walks up to the "lectern", throwing candy cigarettes to the audience.  He smiles.

Ah, Tobacco.

There's ( Read more... )

So, Pennsic.

I know most of you will be skimming the play-by-play posts (seeing as there are so many), so I will attempt to distill my awesome week of Pennsic down to a fairly manageable size.

I'm making no promises, mind you.

(Some things will be left out, but they may pop up at disparate times throughout the next couple of weeks.)

But I do have ( Read more... )

Extreme Costuming and the Attack Laurel Academy are sponsoring a party at Pennsic!

The Attack Laurel Academy 2008 Commencement
(and new student orientation!)

Come join us in celebrating our 2008 Graduating class (of 0 students, but who's counting?) and enjoy a party at the Academy's expense!

In other words, Extreme Costuming is having a "meet and ( Read more... )

...because this is a quickie.

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People, I am dying of the heat.  It is easily 88 degrees in my office, and humid, since the air conditioning is not working, and will not be working for the foreseeable future.

I can't think.

But Bob and I were discussing the Pennsic party over the weekend, and I'd love to see people in their most authentic stuff.  The sponsoring website is extreme ( Read more... )

The Attack Laurel Pennsic shindig is on.  Tuesday of Pennsic War week, 7pm, the Atlantian Royal encampment.  Make your plans to be there!

I'll have a more coherent announcement soon, but feel free to start telling people about it now, and rest assured, most of you will make it through the evening alive.

There will be a speech by the Dean, door ( Read more... )