An oldie but a goodie!

September 10, 2009 at 9:51 pm (Uncategorized)

I just posted up a new song to Home of the Pocket Bard, called The LAC Italy Trip 2005 Drinking Song. Which is more or less exactly what it is. I wrote it back in 2005, just after graduating with my B.A., when I was in Italy with a bunch of people from the Liberal Arts College at Concordia.

An anecdote about this song. Based as it is after “The Old Dun Cow,” there’s a call and response line. (Call: “Somebody shouted out ‘Lenore!’” Response: “Lenore!”) I was once singing this song at a restaurant where our whole group of about 25 people were having dinner, and a waiter walked into the room just as everyone shouted “Lenore!” I swear that guy nearly had a heart attack. I’ve never seen a waiter so startled.

Ah, good times in Italy…

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Updates to Home of the Pocket Bard

August 23, 2009 at 12:39 pm (pennsic, poems, songs)
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Hi everyone! Just did some more updating to Home of the Pocket Bard. I’ve uploaded the last two Pennsic diaries (for 2003 and 2004). I’ve also posted two songs. The first, “I Passed the Devil’s Pickup Truck,” is a silly little song I wrote for a friend of mine a few years ago. The other, “For Grandma and Grandpa,” was a 60th anniversary present for my grandparents.

Enjoy!

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Past Pennsic diaries uploaded

August 20, 2009 at 10:58 pm (pennsic)
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Hi everyone! I’ve been a busy little bard tonight and transferred over three years’ worth of Pennsic diaries to Home of the Pocket Bard, from 2006 to 2008. You can find them at the Pennsic diaries page. This is all content that was previously on The SCA Without Breaking the Bank, so if you’ve read it there, you won’t find anything new here. But, on the up-side, WordPress is *not* shutting down at the end of October (unlike Yahoo! Geocities, grumble, grumble), so you’ll be able to continue reading my Pennsic diaries for years to come when you get nostalgic.

For those who are counting, there are two more Pennsic diaries coming. I just didn’t have time to transfer everything tonight. Look for them in the next few days.

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Brand new song! Written yesterday!

August 19, 2009 at 7:36 pm (pennsic, poems, sca)
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I had some time yesterday to fulfill one of my Pennsic commitments, namely to write a poem in honour of Dione Sidhe’s kitchen house, which was completed at this year’s War. (To see a picture of the kitchen house, click here).

I decided to go the “tell a story” route, though I chose to err on the side of fable rather than fact. I got the official stamp of approval from Mistress Brid this morning, so I present to you The Sign of the Duck, another Pocket Bard original.

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Six new songs up!

August 18, 2009 at 8:50 am (poems, sca, songs)
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I’ve been doing some updating around Home of the Pocket Bard. Today I’ve uploaded six backlogged songs that I’ve written over the last few years. You’ll find them at the master song list under “Period-esque Poems,” “Teaching Poems,” (both at the top) and “Songs for Friends and Family” (at the bottom).

Today’s update includes the poem that won me my silver bracelet from Duke Cariadoc. If you don’t know why I find this so mind-shatteringly awesome, ask me sometime. It also includes a poem based on my absolute favourite story from the Bible, full of sex, deception, and intrigue. There’s a sonnet about writing sonnets and a ballad about writing ballads. There’s also a poem I wrote in honour of my mom’s 55th birthday and a belated Christmas card. (How often do you celebrate belated Christmas? Yeah, that’s about what I thought.)

Enjoy!

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New song from Pennsic

August 17, 2009 at 8:30 am (pennsic, songs)
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Hi everyone! I’ve hinted that I wrote a new song at Pennsic, and now you can see it in all its uploaded glory. It’s called “The Rubber Duckies of Dione Sidhe.” There’s a story of how it came about on the page itself.

As a side-note, this song was nearly called “The Rubber Ducky Breeding Grounds of Pennsic,” but I couldn’t work in ducky breeding into the song.

Enjoy!

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Pennsic 2009 diary is up!

August 15, 2009 at 3:46 pm (pennsic)
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Yes, that’s right! The Pennsic 2009 diary is up in all its 17,000-word glory. Just because I know you guys don’t have anything better to do this weekend than read through 17,000 words of what I was doing at Pennsic. Go check it out here.

For the truly masochistic, previous Pennsic diaries are still up at The SCA Without Breaking the Bank. They’ll all be transferring over here soon.

Happy reading!

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Back from Pennsic!

August 11, 2009 at 1:30 pm (pennsic)

Honey, I’m home! Yes, I’m back from those magical two weeks called Pennsic. I got home on Sunday afternoon and immediately went off to a Heather Dale house concert. It felt like I was still at War! That is, it felt that way until I worked 4.5 hours of overtime on my first day back at work.

Now, I know the question in all of your minds, “When’s your Pennsic diary going to be online, so we can read all about your adventures?” Never fear, my dear readers. The answer is, “Soon.” I’m about a third of the way through typing it out, and then it’s only a matter of putting it up on this very site. Look for it by the end of the week. I’ll be sure to post an announcement when it’s ready.

Until then, know that I had a wonderful time at War, with one exception: I was stung by irony. Yes, it’s true. I stepped on a bee while walking to buy shoes. If that’s not irony, I don’t know what is. My foot swelled up and I couldn’t walk for two and a half days, an eternity at Pennsic! But I’m fine now, and the rest of my War was wonderful. So keep your eyes peeled, ’cause in mere days, you’ll have all the information you could possibly want!

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The Pocket Bard will be at Pennsic!

July 23, 2009 at 6:50 pm (pennsic)
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If you’re going to Pennsic, keep an eye out for your favorite Pocket Bard. I’ll be camping with McGuire’s Marauders (N06), right behind Ansteorra Royal. There is an easy way to find my camp: stand in front of the Performing Arts Pavilion, facing the battlefield. Look about halfway down the block, on the right-hand side, for a pink-and-white striped tent. That’s McGuire’s Marauders. Stop on in!

A few other places you’ll probably find me at Pennsic:
- Thursday, first week, o’dark:
Aethelmearc storytelling circle (Aethelmearc Royal)

- Friday, first week, 1 pm:
my class, “Pennsic Without Breaking the Bank” (AS 10)

- Middle Saturday, o’dark:
Aethelmearc filk circle (Aethelmearc Royal)

- Middle Sunday, 2 pm:
my class, “Your Persona in an Hour” (AS 1)

- Middle Sunday, 5 pm:
Efenwealt Wystle concert (performing arts pavilion)

- Monday, War Week, 3 pm:
presenting a paper at the “Boreal Master Symposium” (AS 8 )

- Tuesday, War Week, 8 pm:
Cerian Cantwr’s concert (performing arts pavilion)

- Wednesday, War Week, 8 pm:
Marian of Heatherdale’s concert (performing arts pavilion)

- Thursday, War Week, 3 pm:
my class, “Your Persona in an Hour” (AS 1)

I’ll be out and about at Pennsic, so if you see a bard that looks like she could fit in your pocket, stop by and say “hi!”

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Seven new songs added!

July 20, 2009 at 11:01 pm (poems, sca, songs)
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It’s that time again: time for more songs to magically find their way to Home of the Pocket Bard. Today features a half-dozen songs from my early days as a bard, all about a “pirate” ship I served aboard, The Lady Joane Glory. (Pirate is such a strong word, don’t you think?)

Also today is a poem that’s among my favourites, Ernst Takes a Student, that I wrote when I joined the household of “Da Coach,” Master Ernst Nuss von Kitzingen.

You can see these new songs, as well as all the others, on the Master Song List page. Look for a few more before the end of the week, and look for lots of new stuff after I come back from Pennsic!

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