John Scalzi, author of the excellent novel Old Man’s War, recently published an article on being geeky. From many  jewels, I’ll pick one: “Many people believe geekdom is defined by a love of a thing, but I think - and my experience of geekdom bears on this thinking - that the true sign of a geek is a delight in sharing a thing. It’s the major ( Read more... )

Darn it! Does anybody know who posted this, http://www.scatoday.net/node/23013 ?

While Flidais did vigil at the West An Tir war, she's not going to be elevated until October Crown. Oddvar was elevated to the Laurel during Saturday evening court at West/AnTir war.

TRM Hauoc and Mina very kindly took time from their schedule to stop by dance practice last night and offer my practically perfect apprentice, gormflaith, membership in the Order of the Laurel! There was much sqeeing and hugging; I think a box of Kleenex came into play. And wine, because it was dance practice.

Her ladyship, the most excellent Flidais ní ( Read more... )

I'm thinking of teaching a class on basic feast planning and organization at A&S, or maybe at the next West Coast Culinary Symposium. If you were thinking about volunteering to cook your first feast, what would you want to know?

Tentative class description: An in-depth discussion on the necessary steps to plan and execute an SCA feast. Topics will ( Read more... )

But still so very, very pretty, fabric "modeled from an embroidered traveling suit worn by King Gustav II Adolf, the Swedish king that ruled 1615-1632".

from another list "> Converting that, it's about $550/cdn/us per metre
> when done by hand embroidery. A mere $100 Cdn/US if it's
> the printed version on silk."

There are days when I'm kind of glad I ( Read more... )

The Shire of Crosston's annual Dance Ball is Saturday, the 29th of January. Details on the Crosston website  and  the West Event Wiki.
Site: St. Mark's Episcopal Church 1957 Pruneridge Ave. Santa Clara, CA. 
Hours: Site opens at 11:30 AM Dance classes at noon, and at 5 PM the potluck starts. 
6 PM we will begin the ball, and the event ends at 10 PM ( Read more... )

Duchesses’ Ball dance list:

Treblemakers

Horses’s Bransle

Chestnut

Petit Riense

Montard Bransle

Queen’s Alman

Grimstock

West Kingdom Choir

Pavan/Galliard (to singing)

Amoroso

Bransle Charlotte

Contrapasso

Black Alman

Villanella

Intermezzo

Rufty-Tufty

Dane de Cleves

Old Mole

Gracca Amoroso

Hyde Park

Gathering Peascods

Details about 12th night are here: http:// ( Read more... )

Just leaving a note for myself so I won't forget: http://www.antir.sca.org/Upcoming/?Event_ID=2727
Is anybody else planning on going? It's the weekend between Mists Coronet and Prova Dura.

'Suburban Knights'/Courtesy of E.F. Kitchen

eta: It must be "links" day. Great Old Spice Bodywash ad

At Coronet, Collette and 'Sandro's skinny puppy, Jess, was wearing a little padded jacket that looked like a gambezon. Made me think of this link that popped up on LJ last week. Armour for your Cat.

The Kyrie and the Rounds at the Crosston bardic both sounded lovely. I was too far away to catch much of the other singing.