For those who have been anxiously awaiting the posting of my behemoth Pennsic diary, it's online. Final count is somewhere around 18,000 words. Don't say I didn't warn you!

Pennsic 39 (2010) Diary: The Pocket Bard Gets Owned

Enjoy! (By the way, if you see your name misspelled or a link that isn't working properly, please let me know.)

Hi everyone! My Pennsic diary is transcribed, and I just need to get it web-ready. Until then, I present to you the three poems I wrote at Pennsic this year, all up at Home of the Pocket Bard:

1. The Lady Bardicci -- a courtly poem about an unfortunate incident at Casa Bardicci

2. The Ansteorran Pavilion Seeds -- a silly filk, theorizing why the ( Read more... )

Tonight I was invited to be a guest storyteller at jdhobbes' CD launch. This was certainly one of the first times I've done storytelling bardic in front of a non-SCA audience, and perhaps the very first time. The acoustics were horrible (outside with a noisy fan), but we thankfully had a microphone that I was able to use. It took a little while for me to ( Read more... )

I know there are Pennsic bardic people reading this. If you're one of them, what circles do you know about this year? Let's all put our heads together and start planning stuff out!

Wow. Seems like I may have ruffled some feathers. It's amazing how much of my foot will fit in my mouth if you slather it in ketchup first. (Okay, that's an image absolutely no one needed. Sorry ( Read more... )

It's taken me a full two days to realize that something was missing from Crown this weekend, and I don't just mean nice weather. Pretty much the entirety of my bardic experience at the event was one song that I performed to an inattentive feast hall. Usually at camping events, I get to sit down after feast with Conrad, Cairn, and other like-minded ( Read more... )

The short version: I was expecting the weather to be horrible and was pleasantly surprised to find it only bad. And I enjoyed seeing all my friends.

( The long version )

Thanks to the storytelling night I was at tonight, I have lots of fodder for new stories. You'll probably hear at least a few of them the next time you meet me. Just a heads-up.

(On that note: wonderful storytelling night. Thanks jdhobbes, lightcastle, and everyone else who performed!)

In short: had a wonderful time ( Read more... )

So here I am in Troy, New York. The bardic workshop was a ton of fun. I have a few new ideas for vocal exercises and some improvements for a few of my pieces, but more importantly, I have spread the seeds of bardic wrongness, and it was much fun. Taking the cake, a completely improved filk to Alice's Restaurant based on one of the stories I do and ( Read more... )