Death takes its yearly toll

This time of year always seems to rush on by me: no project gets finished, everything falls behind and a lack of sleep means there are just not enough hours in the day. And just as the days get longer, (and SCA event season kicks off) free time just dries up. It's like Life is trying to outrun me. Hence the non-blogging lately...

This time last year I had just moved into my new house, but managed to make it to Crossroads for one night. Crossroads (in the Canton of Hawks Hollow) officially started today at 3, and obviously I'm not there yet. Probably won't be until Friday night. While I would like to say "I'm going to have the best time of my life", this year will be as last was, saddened by the loss of another SCA friend.

Strangely, many of them have died right around this time of year. I've started to believe that Life speeds up for everyone at this time of year, and these are the guys that Life outran.

Slow death of a video card

Fear not, my absence from this place shall soon end! But first I must attend to the death of my video card. I get about 10 minutes now before it heats up enough to turn everything on my monitor into a kaleidoscopic pixel dance.

I think Warcraft killed it, even though there hasn't been much of that lately, as spring gardening takes too much time. I have a backlog of email messages, images to upload and things to write - just waiting for payday to arrive so I can help stimulate the economy.

I think I needed a break from ye olde internet anyway.

Reliving Chivalry

Reliving Chivalry is a multimedia class project from UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. The birthplace of the SCA, Berkeley is located in the West Kingdom. Huzzah and well done!

Shakespeares' Serenity: verse about the 'Verse!

Way back in the day, when I first started this blog, I considered many blog platforms. One of them was LiveJournal, which has a thriving community of brilliant geeks.

In evidence of that fact, I present to my readers a few lines from evilrooster:

Capt: There's more to flight than buttons, albatross,
More to the pilot's role than charts and maps.
You know the foremost rule of flying? Aye,
I know you do, since you know what I'll say
Before I part my lips.

Riv: I do, but yet I like to hear you say it nonetheless.

Capt: 'Tis love. Though you know all the math the 'verse
Contains, if in the sky you take a ship unloved
She'll shake you off as sure as worlds turn.
Love keeps her in the air when she should fall
And tells you that she hurts before she keens.
It makes her home.

Feast thy eyes upon the whole verse here. 'Tis short at present, but I hope the clamoring tribes of Browncoats will inspire this poetess to spill forth more magic from her pen...er...I mean keyboard. Surely, this will inspire others to similar words of art...because you know how crazy those Browncoats get.

Maybe I should rewrite "Hero of Canton" in the style of Beowulf? Thankfully I've just finished reading Wealtheow, so I'm in the mood for that. Aye, and there will be a book review sometime soon, it's just a matter of time.

Not just another sword movie

Some of you may have noticed the little graphic down on the sidebar for Reclaiming the Blade by Galatia Films. If not, seek it out and click it. Or you can just wait for the link I'll provide in the next paragraph or so.

When I first heard this film was in production, I pored over their website, as any good fencer would do. A documentary about renaissance swordplay, narrated by John Rhys-Davies? Score points for that. But when I last looked, there were no videos: I had been looking for fight scenes. But I found the Friends of RTB, to which I promptly applied. I wanted very much to help this production see the light of day, for so many good independent films never make it to the screen.

And there I sit, right between the Provo chapter of ARMA and the Chicago Swordplay Guild. Aye, distinguished company. The rest of the cast is not a shabby list of rogues, either!




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This movie could be coming out as early as this summer! For this, I will go to the theater again. Probably in costume.