Archive for January 13th, 2009

Put BARF on your resume

Florida
If you missed the first casting call for the Bay Area Renaissance Festival (BARF), you’ve not lost your chance. There’s one more round of auditions scheduled for December 20th, 10:00am – 2:00pm at the Bay Area RenFest Site, 46th St & Fowler Avenue, Tampa.

They are looking for actors, dancers, musicians, …



Knight Of The Living Dead..A Faire-Tale

Episode 1

No freaking’ clue.

Dead bodies were coming back to life and they were trying to eat us. Okay, back to life may not be the right term.

Unlife?

Whatever.

They were moving around and we were on the menu. Why? I had know freaking’ clue.

I was at a Renaissance Faire in the town …



Knight Of The Living Dead..Episode 2

Episode 2

Profession Showoff was not a derogatory term. It was the stage name of our good buddy and present savior, Trey Cromwell. “You guys okay?” Trey asked as he planted his boot on the side of the Deaders head for leverage as he pulled his blade free.“I think so.” I …



Knight Of The Living Dead..Episode 3

Episode 3

The Kathy that Snipe spoke of was the proprietor of ’Much Ado About Something.” a booth that sold fine Celtic jewelry. She has been a friend of our for many year and we attended many of the same Faires.

We ran over a small raise and look down see Kathy’s …



Knight Of The Living Dead..Episode 4

Episode 4

Once again we began running toward actors camp, and once again we stopped when we heard a sound. This time the sound was a familiar voice.

“Son of a bitch.” The voice belong to Robert the Hair, so name because of the long flowing hair that fell to …



Random Handfuls – RenSpace!

… what? another social networking site?

Yep! This one geared toward, well, Rennies. Performers, patrons, playtrons, participants and all those folks who get dressed up in funny clothing to go frolic amongst the trees and burlap…

 Renspace.com is, yes, a social networking site geared toward the Renaissance Faire enthusiast, SCA folks, …



Cheap Advice – Everything I Need to Know About Life I Learned From Going to the Privvy At Faire

Know where things are
Look before you leap
Travel Light
Leave the valuable stuff back at base
Bring your own infrastructure
KNOCK
Try to leave things better for the next person
Sometimes you luck out at the end of the day
Things could always be worse
Take things more deliberately than you think you should
LATCH THE DOOR
Sometimes people just …



Blogness – Shameless Trey Promotion!

Folks – if you’re enjoying my perspective on the things I ramble on about, I would like to direct your attention to a new blog by my colleague, friend, and one ninth of the increasingly hard-to-keep-track-of Medieval Madness Consortium, Trey Cromwell.

His blog is calls “Out of the Ordinary” and can …



Nuts and Bolts – The “Magic Survival” Kit at Faire

Jeff McBride recommends, in his nifty Mystery School sessions, that magicians put together a “survival kit” – a few bits and bobs which can be used to do ten or fifteen minutes of magic should the occasion call for it.

Admittedly, Jeff McBride has a higher probablity of being called upon …



Starting a Conversation – Best “Lesson Learned”?

There will be a “real” AdequateBlog post up this afternoon – possibly two – but in my dotage I left the notebook containing all the stuff I jotted down for those posts back at the Day Job last night.  You can point and laugh now.

In the interim, I would love …