Haven't posted for quite some time. Thought I'd note the fine time we had on Labor Day weekend. Since my rather odd but frequently wicked-cool schedule just turned out that way, I had an extended holiday weekend and we decided to drive to Virginia (hey, we're in the SCA!) for the 30th Anniversary of the founding of the Kingdom of Atlantia. I had ( Read more... )

There's a new drug on the market, 1.5% diclofenac (an ibuprofen-like anti-inflammatory) in a solution of dimethyl sulfoxide. Some may remember DMSO as an unapproved "underground" drug for musculoskeletal aches and pains in the 70's and 80's. It's apparently FDA-approved for osteoarthritis of the knees. But what really struck me was the ( Read more... )

*Brunissende Dragonette de Brocéliande. * Alternate name Margarita Martini and badge. (Fieldless) On a goblet argent a pomme ( Read more... )

Anyone who cares to discuss the administration of the function of Royal Court Heraldry in the East Kingdom of the SCA, including the issue of "pocket heralds", may do so here (barring, of course, ad-hominems and suchlike incivility). You may continue the thread begun at another journal, or offer a new subtopic.

Greetings ( Read more... )

EDIT: I'm leaving this as is, as a reminder to myself about false assumptions. Do read the follow-up comments. Oh, and I still think I'm right about the coronets, the corsets, the wall hangings, and ICOD (an SCA household, held by many to stand for "Inner Circle of Darkness", though they never say).

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Beth ( Read more... )

While looking for something else entirely -- I don't even remember what, at this point! -- I happened upon a personal minor Holy Grail. Kessinger Publishing, which I knew only as a publisher of obscure Masonic-iana, seems to have expanded their inventory greatly, and they had a copy of John Eliot's A Grammar of the Massachusetts Indian Language. ( Read more... )

Submitted for the interested student ( Read more... )

Beth and I went to Patri's memorial on Saturday. msmemory has already posted about it. But it got me thinking. (I tried, in my bumbling way, to convey a morsel of this to Barbara, and I'm sure I failed.) The thing is, I knew him for almost 30 years, but I didn't really know him at all, and I'm just coming to a realization of what a missed opportunity that ( Read more... )

1. What is your SCA name? (You don't have to write the full name, just your first name if you want ( Read more... )