The book is more a guide for the SCA, although a lot of the stuff can be
used for the Ren Faire. Same geekery, different scene.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hiram Gonash" <okfreddy_at_hotmail.com>
To: <OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 3:53 PM
Subject: [OliveStarlightOrchestra] Mike - Ren Fair ?
> Dude,
>
> I see you've got a Ren Fair book on eBay:
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
> ViewItem&category=378&item=6927052489
>
> circa 1979-1982 which would've been the years I participated. Are the
> pictures in the book, by any chance, of the So Cal Ren Fair? If so, is
> there a slim, clean-shaven, dubiously handsome cheese-monger in any of
> the pictures? How about a peasantly-dressed (spelling correct) pervert
> sitting on hay bales with similar perverts, praying that pig lady
> doesn't bean them with a wet sponge?
>
> Where was the book published?
>
> --H.G. AKA
> Charles Chesebro - Aged Cheese Monger (and smelled like it. I *STILL*
> haven't washed my costume after all these years. OTOH, no cockroaches.
> )
>
> (Shit! I don't remember what my peasant name was. Where's Sue Hall or
> Billy or Annye the Wench or Karen or Lisa Butterfield- they might
> remember...)
>
> Memories...Peckerman Scratchit, Damian Demonson Hellstrom, the water
> truck at 7:00 A.M., chai for breakfast, showering Sunday night, the
> glorious smell of three-day old limburger on a hot Monday afternoon -
> Labor Day weekend, the orgies and drugs, Celt Camp, the striptease
> competition at night - men vs women, the "turkeys", the turkey legs,
> blissing on artichokes...
>
> Such was youth. Not that I participated in any of it. Nope. Just an
> observer. Boy Scout, y'know - God and Country.
>
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> Yahoo! Groups Links
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Received on 2004-09-15 21:30:13