So I was rootling around looking for vestiges of the SCA as I knew and loved it in Olden Days, and came across a site that reposted the lyrics to Malkin and Peregrynne's great old "Raven Banner" - along with a new set of words called "Raven Banner (Irish)." Which...well, which if it shows creative inspiration at all (and it does), shows a very
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"Farewell, Romance!" the Cave-men said; "With bone well carved He went away. "Flint arms the ignoble arrowhead, "And jasper tips the spear to-day. "Changed are the Gods of Hunt and Dance, "And He with these. Farewell, Romance!"
So, a while ago I compiled a list of SCA classes what I had taught. (Ooh, look, that was three years ago-how time flies.) At the time I explicitly did not go back to lectures at the University of Carolingia, but in the years since I have made a stab at compiling a list
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It has come to my attention that the investiture of the next Baron and/or Baroness of Carolingia is scheduled for May 12 next. We will not be there, as that is the weekend of B's college commencement. I just thought I'd say so out loud, now before we even know who it's gonna be, so you'll know it's nothing personal. After all, whoever it is that
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Saturday was day-tripping up to GNE. First and foremost, the weather was remarkably beautiful, certainly the best at GNE in a long, long time: whenever the wind stopped completely it did feel hot, but that was rare; lots of small decorative clouds during the height of the day kept the worst of the sun off (plus, this year I remembered my straw hat
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Sunday was a very low-key little May Day event, which was all the more pleasant coming after big showcase-y 40 Year the weekend before. There was good schmoozing; a low-key little court with only one item of business, a Moon for calygrey (hear hear!); a fun commedia performance, which I almost got to be in at the last minute but doing a last-minute
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So, Measure for Measure is over. While I wish we could have spent a little longer on it, and (contrariwise) it's always a pity to have spent so many months preparing for only a couple hours' actual performing, nonetheless I'm relieved it's over and done with and I can look for other things to do with my time and mental energy
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Measure for Measure, Shakespeare's epic play of Pompey the Great's metamorphosis from common pimp to Lord High Executioner (in Training). There is also a B-plot, involving a fantastical duke and a bed trick
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Went out for a constitutional yesterday, for the first time in...I don't know how long. Days and days and days certainly, maybe even weeks. But it wasn't actually snowing, for a change, and most of the sidewalks around have been plowed (or shoveled, or blown) - although I still don't trust Main Street. It was slushy underfoot, especially on long
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