Renaisannce-foo....

For the 1st time in more than 5 yrs(because the faire moved to it's present location then and we went at it's old one;>)Chuck and I went to the local Ren-Faire. Let's just say it was a lovely drive;>....
Honestly, we liked the old one better. While this one had greater participation and custom, it wasn't what we would call a Ren-faire. Considering that at least 2/3 of the players came as Pirates right out of the popular Disney franchise, I'd have called it a Pirate Festical/con. Of the 3rd, maybe half were Re-period. I saw Romans, Elves, a group of female Cosplayers dressed as their fav Anime Catgirls(I saw a Ms Nekonome from 'Rosario + Vampire'!). I will admit to LOVING the guy who did a "Sheldon" by dressing as Spock. This Renfaire had many more "Temporal Anomalies" than the one in 'BBT';>!
The vendors except for a handful were all those you see at a local street fest...including the Gyros and Thai food!
The old one, while would have pissed off my Bay Area SCA-volk friends(mixing periods, artificial fibers, etc) was a Ren-faire.
Folks get what the want....
Cheers,
Pat

They Killed Dale! You Sweet Zombie;>!

So, last night a "Walker" mortally wounded Dale, the annoying whiney Smurf of the group of Georgia Survivors in 'The Walking Dead'.Preachy, Sanctimonious Bastard of course will be replaced with someone else to be "The Voice of Reason" in the Changed World, which will put more folks in danger.
In the books it was Rick who because being in a Coma missed out on the Traumatizing events as the end of our civilization by having your Loved Ones turn on you and try to kill you and your family so he wass the "VOR" until enough experiences taught him that you can't pretend anymore, you have to "deal" with Today's Reality, not Yesterdays. Unfortunately, the show has him being such a weenie(I mean, letting an old man with a number of empty rooms in his house keep his little boy in a polyester tent simply because the house was the old man's!?! His wife?!!?!)trying to make everyone happy and getting little done(gee,they were at this location how long and not even a barricade/fence/etc to protect the campsite?!?!!?).
'Course, I admit to being a much more pragmatic person in such a situation. After all, I lived and helped some folks make it through the aids yrs and making decisions that may or may not kill someone was a Tuesday for us...something that today's folks not only forgot they purposely pretend that IT DIDN'T HAPPEN BECAUSE IT COULDN'T.
You Grow or Die. Truthfully, the Universe doesn't Care which you do. It's up to YOU TO....
Cheers,
Pat