Had friends over, had a family emergency that made us think one was giving up the fight for good, andvisiting with more friends… and sewing little pincushions for SCA gifties for artisan folks in coming months. Wasn’t even something I did until I saw some on flickr. Damn you flickr! Went out and spent $30 on felt (10 for $1 on sale!) and supplies, so I should be good for a very very long time. Anyway, take a look at what I left you hanging for.

Songs where the singer puts the band name, thier name or that of thier featured cohort, in the lyrics.

Title of your album is okay, title of the song or in the lyrics - NOT okay. I hated it when Wang Chung did it, I hate it when rappers do it.

Home to my beloved IKEA, ABBA, saunas and meatballs and now - Death Metal and the national women’s Swedish Curling team.

And that’s thier SECOND video for this stunning tune. Here’s the first.

(Thanks Estoye!)

I’m sorry Servie, it could never work.

If you missed last night’s ep you should! It was a riot! The link will let you in on the whole thing, but… they killed off Chef, and they way they did it leaves no one wondering. All of Chef’s lines were audio clips from revious shows - funny as hell.

Parker and Stone really don’t hold back on thier speed episodes, do they? They whipped it out in like a week, and bravo to them!

If you missed the episode that casued all this, sine CC still hasn’t reaired it, and want a sneak peek at a Fan boycott, see that here.

It snowed yesterday. Hell sprang from above in the form of teeny lacy snowflakes and laid waste to the Southwestern Ohio landscape causing death and destruction in it’s wake. we had INCHES of snow in a few hours! INCHES! (Inches = “more than one”

That’s what we had, 2″ or less of deadly, toxic, evil-incarnate, panic inducing snow that had all the major interstates locked up like a parking lot and caused multi-car pileups on the Bridges. It wasn’t even enough to cover all the blades of grass. The weathermen here of course saw the Four Horseman driving snowplows belching fire as every church, retail business, gym and school announcing their closure scrolled across the bottom of the TV, and the news blared stories about how unseasonable this “storm” was. It’s MARCH! It’s still cold! Just because Spring officially arrived doesn’t mean anything. It’s Ohio in Spring - it’s pretty typical to have 50 degree sunny days mixed with three days of heavy grey rain or a pop-up cold front and a bit of snow, then be 50 degrees again and a clear blue sky - and that’s what it is right now. 48F in the shade according to my temperature gauge. It’s our freakiest season. Am I the only person to have lived her this long?

And today it’s all gone. Not a single spot of snow, even in my shadiest part of the yard, not a spec to be seen anywhere. Lo, the day or terror is over, come out of hiding my countrymen.

I think we must import all our weathermen from California. Christ. Id we killed them all I bet we’d no even blink an eye at this.

Seeing a GIANT spike in my traffic this last week or so, I looked up my keywords and referrers and found out I’m #1 at Google.

Hey at least I’m #1 at something.

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Every once in a while you find a little short film that makes you wish it was an hour longer so you could buy the DVD, and today that honor is won by these guys who made this hilarious short called “Fear of Girls”.

If that link doesn’t work, try this one at crappy google video

IF you want something else funny to watch and celebrate being a video gaming geek (and sorry, it’s on google video too) watch this performance by The Tripods.

I’ve found if it google video pauses video and audio continues on you, click the bottom rightmost button, a down arrow, and tell it orginal size. Seems to run fine after that.

Everyone’s in a Stew Over ‘outh Park’ Chef - relaly good followup article.

Here’s the best part:

“o, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun!” the two said in a statement sent to trade paper Variety.

“Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies. Curses and drat! You have obstructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail! Hail Xenu!!!”

They signed the statement, “Trey Parker and Matt Stone, servants of the dark lord Xenu.”

THAT’ comedy folks!

Enjoy Ladies.

Thought I’d recommend this book if people want a better truthful idea of what we do.

It was written by a Cleveland newspaper reporter who having heard about our group decided to investigate it for a story for his paper. This story became his story as he found himself immersed in the culture and the people and becoming a eager and active member.

It’s a very balanced, starting as an outsiders view from the inside to a insiders view to the outside. It also features several people I know personally as it’s most feature “characters” are from Ohio.

I’m still beating compliance out of the spam blacklister thingie on MT since I raised the sensitivity up a little notch to eat more spam. As a result a lot of my previously published regular commenters are going straight to junk, not even a notice, so I have been having to go in daily (or more) to search the junked comments for gems in the garbage.

If everyone could comment I can add you all to the white list to keep this awful profiling from happening to you fine folks.

So you’re telling me back the decent and wholesome 1940’s they could show buttcrack in a huge ad poster of naked buff skinnydipping US Army men, but today , in just the last few years, we have to pixelate Bart Simpon’s bare heiny?

Ok, we can stop now, we’re actually progressing backasswards.

Well… it was all the talk today on the SCA lists, the Ohio medieval from the tv show Wife Swap. Turns out they ARE in the SCA.

Back in the Middle Ages if someone shamed thier fellow townspeople, gossiped or talked too much they’d be tackled and shackled, lead into the square on a rope through the spitting and booing crowd who would throw various gross things at them, they’d get locked into into the stocks for a day, maybe two, in the center of town while more things got thrown at them and people had some nasty words with them. They might even possibly be walked out to the river and strapped in a dunking chair on cold morning for 20 or so drops to cool off their devilish tongues.

Ah the good old days.

Scadians, being tremendously wired geeks, found out quite a bit on who these folks were, or at least the father (the woman is a complete blip with not being online or a phone or anything at home). They moved to Columbus, Ohio a few years ago from out west and never seemed to settle in with the groups out here (Ohio is practically ripe with SCA, we have a TON of people here). They pretty much only go to our big “wars”. We know where he works, where he came from, found some of his internet postings, his SCA name and when it passed the with our heralds - we even know his email address (and believe me if it’s still good he got some steaming mad emails today).

Thing is almost no one really remembers them “playing” with us. I guess when they moved they told one person they didn’t like the group atmosphere here, or something (happens when you change environments in ANY group, face it, not every one plays the same everywhere) so they never really have melded in. Someone else vaguely remembers seeing them a year ago at one of my barony’s events in the Dayton area, but past that. These people are pretty much “fringers” now.

One other interesting newsie thing on this - Seems since the SCA is a non-profit corporation, I guess the show producers called our President to ask for permission to mention the SCA , to “promote” us, and maybe shoot at an event or the like. They got a clear and precise NO WAY IN HELL. I guess the producers got quite angry and repeatedly tried to talk him and the Board into it, and it sounds like they were really confused and ticked off to be refused when they were offering such a “great opportunity”. (Yeah, real charitable.) I guess they even sent Mr Stamper to plead their case to to the Corp office since I guess since he was on of our own. No go. They were told the SCA would prefer not to have that kind of attention, and they were not allowed to use our name, logos or anything pertaining to us. Peeved the producers royally I guess (hahaha), thus no mention of us by name. Whew. I imagine they had to do quite a bit of editing too to remove all that stuff as a result, which is why I bet they were trying so hard.

The truth is we don’t really need “the promotion”, we’re the biggest of all the historical reenactment groups. We aren’t really a best kept secret or anything. Everyone seems to know someone (who knows someone else maybe) who does it.

I know I plan to say they are “Freaky Rennies” and not the SCA if it ever comes up from curious people. I have a feeling a lot of our people will. For a couple that loved what we do so much, they sure found a bang up way to damage to it.

If they thought we were unfriendly before they’re really gonna be welcomed with open arms now - not. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that they got asked to leave an event. “Personas” nongrata, indeed.If there is one timeless piece of social etiquette we SCA folks knows really well it’s the Ancient Art of Shunning.

Too bad dunking chairs are so hard to find.

(The dad, Greg Stamper, is defending himself and his famil’s choice to do this in a thread on tribes.net Look for the name “Madog”. I’m Griz, in case you want to see what I told him.)

We’d like to say that freaky Stamper family on Wife Swap tonight ARE NOT IN THE SCA (the medieval group I belong to). If they were I think I’d know their faces at least as we live in the same state (they never said where in Ohio, but I travel around…. In fact asking around no one in our Kingdom seems to know them, and no one else in Ohio can place them either. It’s all over our kingdom mailing list.

They had a computer, they were geeks, both she and the hubby come up blank on google, I can find pretty much anyone in the SCA on google. These guys are blips. I’m guessing they are “rennies” - the most hated of all medieval re-creationists - the Renaissance Fair folk

At least most despised by SCA types where I live, which is where the Ohio Ren Fair is located in my local group’s boundaries. We stopped recruiting rennies a long time ago. They never stay long.

They always find their way to us hearing we do this year round and will come and play but in the end find us too restrictive (so much so we look the other way at your wearing tennis shoes and belly dance gear, but frown on fairy costumes. we’re by far the least restrictive of the major re-enactment societies and the largest). We find the the rennies too flaky and too happy to bounce around boob busting bodices and usually end up ignoring them after they make it clear they do not wish to see ‘the light’ and learn to dress better. They usually disappear soon after. No one sheds a tear.

Scadians never feel any schooling is a waste of time, as these folks did. We are a non-profit educational organization. I do know some home schooled kids locally in our group but they will out socialize and out think I think any other kid their age as most of our folks have college degrees (if not a couple) and probably more educated than some teachers (I know several with masters degrees, or better). And I don’t know a scadian that dresses up in costume around the house unless they are leaving for an event, coming home from one or trying it on while sewing it. We certainly would never force it on anyone. (I realize that’s part of the show and all, but christ they dressed him up like the King on in a pack of cards) And we’d certainly never be caught dead in a costume shop. In fact, we jump gladly back into jeans and sweats after events.

If I’m wrong, and they are in the SCA and are reading this, shame on them. We work so hard to show that we’re ordinary people who have extraordinary weekends and you have in one hours time ruined that. We’re gonna be living this down, and denying you, for years now when we call places to rent sites for events. (which I did today, and if I hear back I’ll be shocked now). If you come to events you shold be turned away.

If anyone reading this is in the SCA and knows who these folks are, email me. I’d like to have a little heart to heart phone call with them, grrr!

(*I’m putting this here since google loves my blog and maybe these folks will google thier names and see it.)

Isaac Hayes quits South Park citing religious persecution but a show that accuratly portrayed it’s core beliefs.

(BTW, I find the words Isaac Hayes and “civil rights activist” to be funny. I never saw his name in my history books.)

I find that his outrage is five months too late if he actally was that upset. And he certainly wasn’t during this interview (page 2) at the Onion AV Club after the episode’s only airing in November (the Scientologists made a deal the show’s producers that it could bever be seen again - anywhere):

Isaac, you got played by the “Church of little alien ghosts that make you a sad panda until you cough up $250K”. I hope they are giving you your emeter sessions for free for that kind of about face, sounds like you’re gonna need the money now.

Ohio candidate for U.S. Senate wants gays dead

Sherrod Brown (also a Democrat) is a shoe-in next to Mr KKKeiser.

In other news: Voting machine support costly

So, Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, Republican Sith Lord, who I’ve mentioned before for being accused of peeing in the Republican pool, picked Diebold (Ohio company run by another Republican Sith Lord) to be the Voting machien of choice for the state and is now basically telling the Ohio counties “Tough nuts, you’re on your own” when the Diebold presented them the Microsoft Shaft model of tech support billing now out of the blue. Nice way to get Bush’s buddies in tthe door and keep getting paid for years after.

I’ll spare those out there who dont watch my fangirl rantings with a bump…
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Anyone else seen the new BK Tendercrisp chicken commerical yet? I think it started today.

It starts in a corral with cowboays and girls as one cowboy tries to ride a rambuncious giant chicken (read: guy in the famous BK chicken suit) as a singer mournfully sings “Big buuuucking chicken… you are big, and a chicken…”

Hilarious. I wonder how long before someone complains about the word play.