South Side of the Sky

 (Written by a friend of mine in the Midrealm.)

Against my better judgment lads, I’ve parch-a-ment and ink
I can’t resist the Muses call after having ale to drink
And how the Muse does stir me in her garb of Turkish men,
shouting orders to her crew from the bowsprit at the stem.

Hi did de doe, across the waves we go,
How can one plant those wild oats,
When there’s no tilled earth to sow?

- Lewys ap Deykin
Anno Societatis XLIV
Somewhere on the Open Seas

My SQL database was screwy for a bit, but it appears that the blog is back up and runnin’s now. Maybe I’ll do a really real update soonish.

Went to Anime Boston, had lots of fun with the Penny Dreadfuls and my new steampunk fiends friends, and I’m moving from Providence to Pawtucket this weekend into a new place with some SCA friends until I can get my bearings into finding a place of my own. BULLY!

Ang’s annual Passover BoozeFest!

WHAT YUO WILL NEED:

Booze of your choosing. I recommend hard liquor and shot glasses if you’re really hardcore. If not, beer will also work. Just be careful about breaking the seal too early. You can also do some Manishevitz wine if you’re feeling extra kosher!

Ten Commandments DVD. You will probably not make it to the 2nd disc, but it’s good to have anyway.

A group of friends who find the movie as hysterical as you do.

Snacks, such as matzo, are optional.

HOW TO PLAY:

Pour you and your friends a tall something, and pop the DVD in. If the movie is televised (they don’t do this much anymore), this also works, but bear in mind the rules for seal breakage. Drinking is permitted between required swigs.

The basis of this drinking game is taking shots or good-sized gulps of your beverage when certain events happen in the film, the basic break down is as follows:

Anyone (Pharaoh, Nefrertiri, etc) says “Moses” repeatedly, take the amount of drinks that they say his name.

Pharaoh Seti says “So let it be written, so let it be done.” Take 2 drinks.

Ramses says, “So let it be written, so let it be done.”, Take 1 drink and say, “Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.”

Ramses swats himself with the fly flogger thingy: 2 drinks.

Charlton Heston overacts (Yeah, I know…): 1 drink.

Baka (Vincent Price) comes on screen, quote “She’s so amusing”, and take a drink.

Dathan (Edward G. Robinson) comes on screen, go “Nyaaaah” and take a drink.

Someone refers to Jethro, say “Tull”, and take a drink.

Nefretiri has a nip slip (just keep watching…): 2 drinks

Nefretiri sluts it up with either Moses or Ramses: 1 drink

“IT’S A MAN!” Jethro’s daughters needlessly flirt with Moses about his sandals: Just chug for this scene, it’s painful.

The main dramatic score restarts at any time in the film: 1 drink.

-If you make it this far-

Drink for every plague, we do this shit for science!

Stand up and recite the commandments in the same tone as “God” does, and point at the TV and flail as if it is your very hand that burns the words on the tablets. Drink for every commandment. By this time you should be feeling pretty good anyway! Yeah, that’s right, THROW those tablets into the chasm!

I add new stuff every year, so this isn’t even probably half of the things I’ll require this year. And I start making shit up as I go too.

SEAL BREAKAGE RULE:

When you drink this much, it’s inevitable. So, by the grace of god and DVDs, when a bathroom run occurs, it’s required to pause the DVD so you can’t escape drinking. If it’s on TV, use TIVO. If you don’t have TIVO or a DVD player, WAYSA?

Actual quote from a customer in Germany (Fnordius is his Etsy name, even!)

“I am an a reenactment group that portrays a mercenary company in the 15th century, mostly active in the German provinces. Due to my American accent and half Gaelic ancestry (the other half French), I thought it best to dress in the manner of an Irish soldier (many Irish mercenaries fought in the War of the Roses at that time, and it is not unreasonable to imagine one travelling to Europe and joining a local company, as the German provinces were embroiled in the Hussite wars). Thus your leine seemed the most authentic, one I could combine with a long gambeson/clotard, braes and trews. The ionar and the sack sleeves often seen are, like you say on your page, a fashion that came 100 years later.”

So not only is another Discordian ordering from me half-way around the world, but he’s also impressed with the fact I have a really-real historically accurate item I’m offering.

Oh yeah, the kicker of course being that my own SCA Household is late period mercenaries…You know.

Best in Class on the Master Level in Workmanship and Documentation

Best in Class on the Master Level in Presentation

Arisia 2009

^_^!

I now have an ArtFire, which seems to be more affordable and friendly toward people that don’t sell thousands of dollars worth of stuff off of Etsy.

http://jackofallthreads.artfire.com

If anyone is considering joining, please use my referral link below. Right now they are having a special for $7 a month for life!

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So we shall see how this goes. I’m probably putting up a few auctions this week on eBay as well.

http://Jackofallthreads.etsy.com

http://www.welt.de/english-news/article2905620/President-Bush-announces-automaker-bailout-plan.html

Some $13.4 billion will be made available in December and January from a $700 billion fund that was originally designed to rescue struggling financial institutions, but the loans would be called back if the automakers cannot prove they are viable by March 31, an administration official said.

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Right. Because it’s more important for CEOs of large banks who own their own Lear Jets and wear Gucci shoes to work on a daily basis to get money from the government from the taxpayers, then you know, the money going to companies that employ taxpayers in factories and assembly plants, who make 2 figures less annually than the bank CEOs, and will probably starve if they lose their jobs, therefore sucking more government money into the welfare and food stamps programs.

I mean, while we’re at it, we should just decrease the surplus population of those who are losing jobs left and right by executing them in gas chambers to lighten the load of the government to give more money to the rich. We shall call it, “Gentrificide” and “The Middle Class Holocaust”.

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I have awesome friends. They don’t know how awesome they are. On more levels, of course, than them just buying me presents.

StMae: Hate finding pr0n when I’m Googling something clean. It’s like when you order iced tea but they bring you Mr. Pibb. With a giant cock in it.

SUPER MEGAFEST!