Interests? Glop those together and that there's an ever-changing animal, now isn't it?I am busy working with my favorite playtron group, the Cast Aways .
We are involved in TONS of events this year, and I can't wait! Ren faires, Sci-fi cons, Highland games, historically-themed events, arts, and CHARITY WORK - wonderful ways to spend many a weekend.Parades are my FAVORITE passtime! I grew up in New Orleans and it's our family custom not to only look forward to "Carnival season", but each individual parade night. For example, dear to my heart are Krewes of Endymion, Muses, Thoth, Caesar and Orpheus, but there are too many to count!A Bead Whore is a GOOD thing to be called here in Greater N.O. - honest! It is FAR more difficult to CHARM them out of the beads then...say...the method YOU heard about. ::wink::St. Patrick's Day/St. Joseph's Day parades are FANTASTIC!!! Ever been thrown a cabbage from a triple-decker float? Well, my friend, you have not LIVED until you have ducked a flying carrot or been pelted by brussels sprouts. I love the walking men and their endless offers of roses...Even Easter offers parade ops - STRIPPER PARADE ON BOURBON! WOOT! Best part is they are all dressed in pastel antebellum gowns and riding horse-drawn carriages. Always something unique to enjoy in this city. I'll never leave my home!That gorgeous Wench Knott and I - Ocean Springs Banquet 2007
just before I was granted the keys to Faire Sur la Mer
(Who, me?) and declared Angel of Ocean Springs Renaissance Festival (I can see those of you who know me snickering...).
My love to St. John's Episcopal Church and the community of Ocean Springs!Knights are gleamy - in fact, I will proudly wear my scarlet W across my bodice for Sir William of Knights of Valour (which ever so conveniently flips to an "M" for Sir Michael...shh!) PIRATES make me feel all swashbuckly. GrrrRAWR! I'm always on the lookout for a particular Highland Gamer to toss a sheep. Happy Bunny is my PRECIOUSSSSS, and Keith...well... ::giggles:: you know you are loved!!Period costuming (just wearing it real tight) is my love, throwing axes makes my day, and swords. Ooh...I just stare all starry-eyed at swords.Trekkie girl here, from my black go-go boots to my retro red ensign dress, from my communicator to my tribble to my Woochie ears.Scarborough Faire, Mobile Renaissance Festival, TRF, Ocean Springs Renaissance Festival, the Gulf Coast Renaissance Festival, LRF...see you at the next Ren Faire. Into sci-fi cons? Come be knighted at Mobicon and Babelcon!
I'd like to meet:
It's always handy to find someone who can build a better bodice...or better yet - who can ADMIRE a better bodice. Hey, baby! :P Dress up, do ya? Gots skillz with accents? Urges to channel Henry VIII? Well, tell me all about it.There is no greater joy than knowing that on any given Sunday you may find yourself in the company of a blacksmith, a swordsman, a child with her face beautifully painted, a school teacher and a King. Now, knowing there is always the possibility on any given Saturday that you could suddenly find yourself permitted to hop on a muddy back hoe, endow a jousting knight with a rainbow feather boa or rescue a sinking golf cart in a water-logged court gown flanked by soggy Scotsmen and a hot drummer just blows me away. Want the story on the photo below? Just ask. I'd love to tell you.Rainy day in Mississippi...FYI: Fear not! This is not the way festival queens are paraded through Ren faires in the South. :P
Music:
"Brick House" is my action tune. At least once a year some inebriated extroverted parade marcher swaggers up to me and stammers, "Brick hawwwwwse!" Yep. Every year. Help me?"Simply Irresistable" is my theme song, because it is irresistable to me - and THAT is because my dearest Bearly christened me with it long long ago in a Medieval Tavern far far away. Loves dat Bear!COWBOY MOUTH!!! Weeeeeeee!Alternative, classical, dance music...
MACARENA, baby! What? Not cool? You ever seen a woman DANCE the Macarena???
A shout out to the Ren Fest musicians out there...loves my Klaus Weiland, Bedlam Bards, Brobdingnagian Bards, Craig of Farrington, Bilge Pumps. ::hugs Klaus and Craig and Cedric and Hawke and E.:: Of course, it is not a little-known fact that getting the Bilge Pumps to sing the Mermaid is my life-long goal.Queen. Of course.Fiona Apple. You can write, girlfriend!
Movies:
Indiana Jones stole my heart long before I knew I had one, but I stole it back - that is, until a certain ridiculously studly Taco Bell coworker cooked up some pinto beans and my heart was lost forever... :PIn Shiaspeak conglomeration, movies have affected my life as such:
"My name is Inigo Montoya and no man may have me before he has beaten me in a fair fight. Savvy? Conner McCloud? Excellent! Royal ugly dudes? Bogus! You are the One...a feisty little one ring, but you shall soon learn some respect, Grasshopper. Do I make you randy, baby? Shiny! I hate snakes, but I'll be back. It's called a lance. Hellooo. The truth is out there where no man has gone before. Never give up. Never surrender."
Courtesy CTGHOST Mary and I as the Spring and Fall Fairies as we attended LRF Saturday Nov 4, 2006
Television:
LOST! Wow...who knew? I rented, then BOUGHT the first season on DVD...now I am planning my week around Thursday. I am getting friends hooked now. Sorry Madison and Justin...ooh, and that turkey! Season 3 for Christmas! Thank you, Keith! Oh, thank you!!!Gotta love Heroes! Season One's future episode just plain KICKS!!!! Season Two hurry up!!!!Daily Star Trek DS-9 or NG is a must, but I do love anything Roddenberry. Well, almost anything...sorry Sorbocutie...Firely! Thanks, Cedric, for getting me into the Verse. My last-minute companion costume had its test run at Mobicon 2006. Cedric made me squeal with delight to say that my bedroom looked like the bedroom of a companion. Weee!! Can't stop the Serenity!!Mr. Bakula, I love you in Enterprise, but finding back-to-back SciFi channel episodes of Quantum Leap is a real TREAT!Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a campy good time. Angel has that dark fury that's always so hot opposite the surreality of your random nonchalant bleach-blonde male anti-hero. What's this I hear about a muppet episode in the final season???
Books:
Piers Anthony, Incarnations of Immortality. Loves me Piers, I does.Douglass Adams - 42, okay, so we forget the question...but the MICE are darling. All hail the Mice!!Gonna go all out and reveal my Gamer Geek Self with my zest for Dragonlance Chronicles. SHIATARA (aka Shiapets) started as a mangled AOL signon attempt at DL character Kitiara back in 1995, but Shia still works for me after all these years!Sucker for classical poetry...Marvel. mmmm....Marvel.Imagery in poetic context spoken aloud will melt me like buttah:
So much depends upon
a red wheelbarrow
glazed with rainwater
beside the white chickens
-William Carlos Williams
Kudos to Anne Rice, Ambrose Bierce, and Joss Whedon.
Heroes:
Nan, keep me spunky.
Grandma, keep me kind.
Mom, keep me humble.
Carrie, keep me laughing.
Hunter, keep my shielding arm ready.
Don, keep me saucy.
Debbie, keep me drawing.
Dylan, keep me sane.Asleigh Standiford! This is a woman who can join the Air Force, meet a CRAYZEE man in 3 months, and marry him with the most gorgeous wedding imaginable in one week. Ashleigh, the golden banana awaits your return.Rachel D., my Blonde Twin is Newtilicious! Separated at birth by a mere 10 years, she is the Old Lady who inspires me to be a Juvenile Delinquent. When our Wonder Twin powers activate, even The Dump can be glorious. Just watch out for that Taco Bell cup!!!! New and special mention to Wench Knott, a.k.a Rachel D. - YOU TELL 'EM WHAT'S WHAT, BABE! You are totally my hero for standing up and speaking out in the face of backass swampcrap!George A., a.k.a. Tapster of Scarborough Faire - you are a hero in the shade, my Lord. A man who gives of himself is a man who gives others the opportunity to shine. May every mug you fill be raised right back to you in friendship.Michele H. - The spunkiest faire organizer on the planet! She can tame horses, park cars in rubber boots as she simultaneously charms men in armor...even shovel poop while managing to be the cutest SWEETEST blonde you ever saw in a Ren garb. Love you Michele - and your darling man and lovely daughter too!Martin and Lettia, always kind and generous, hearts worn on your beautifully-garbed sleeves, you are my dear dear friends!This man accepted my favor and jousted at the Ocean Springs Ren Fest in said favor, even though it was this RAINBOW FEATHER BOA! Sir Michael of Knights of Valour, you are the best hugger ever. Save the mullet!Amy F. in London, Amy F. in France, Amy F. unhooped in pirate underpants! You sparkly girl, you! Browncoats unite! Amy, wherever you are in the world, you are my Waltzing Ham. ::hugs::Regan. You bring joy to dreary mornings with your razor wit and charming lack of tact. "Shiapets sell Shiashells by the Shiashore," now dwells in the back of my psyche for good. HA!McGarber, Mary D. The woman has mad skillz. She can construct a court grown from a Kleenex, a bobby pin and discarded ribbon. Letting me borrow those wings was a great risk, but I didn't bust 'em! Love you, Mary! I love my dress of curtains. You are always there to catch me when I fall, and damn but I'm clumsy! And...YES...you ARE the Green Fairy.DAGS THE HAG! Honey, you put the KISS in makeup. I love you!Jean of Medieval Mocassins - The Texas Hold-Em Queen!NOVIE! Jesting comes quite naturally to those who jest, but Novie can battle wits with sticks on any playing field and take your heart upon the end of his rapier with a glance. Love to you, Novie! You are a legend of legends in my memories of Scarborough 2006.My own little 14-year-old version of James Dean brooding because he has homework...again.Lawrence M. - A man possessing chivalry of heart is a rare find these days, and if this man falls for any of you ladies, you may just find yourself swept away to the Netherlands.Alyne - Queen of all Gypsies, you are a force of nature, and your heart is bold and caring. Find them, gather them, lead them, and they will follow. You are amazing.THE Danielle, who made me chase you down for the keys to the Vardo, I love ya Shoka Boing! Next time, though, let me say hello to just ONE of your many admirers. Please?Greengirl!!!!! Play that fiddle, Jen! Butterflies may be in your eyes and siblings may cover you but your heart is made of gold. Green gold...hee hee. You inspire me to be silly and find the sweetness in all things.Scarlet , the Fox Prince of Scarlet's Midwinter Renaissance Fest in Oklahoma. Thank you and your lovely Mermaids for declaring Rachel and I Sea Vixens. Yay! We will raise the flag of FoxMoon for all to see.Lord Exeter of Scarborough Faire. Behave Knott, he is my kindred Social Mothra. Able to spin circles about everyone he charms with whit and style, he inspires me to endure - moreover, to strive for scandal.Michael L., thank you for your bravery as you fight the War on Terror. Keep safe, you adorable man.DJ! DJ! He's the man. He can joust. He wears a can.Bushido Billy ! B.B., with your wavy do and your hot car, you can yell your Samurai battle cry and save me from myself anytime!My everyday hero is Keith Charlet . Gentle heart aglow in those dark eyes...a kiss, and I am lost. Now, where was I? Keith will impress you with his original shorts! He can engineer a video shoot in the pouring rain with no light and an angry rabbit on his back - PLUS he puts up with me! That is love. I love you, Keifer...but wherefore art thou today? Dallas? Des Moines? Get home already!Got Peeps? I do so LOVE Peeps.
