Wednesday night: Ready for bed . . .

1. Welcome to ink_books_punk . I think you're gonna feel right at home here.

2. You are in a mall when the zombies attack. You have:

A. one weapon.
B. one song blasting on the speakers.
C. one famous person to fight alongside you.

(seen on several LJs)

3. Line in a newspaper column in Australia in which the writer takes a coach to task for verbally attacking another writer.

"Fuck me dead."

4. When you are seareching your computer for something you wrote for Pikestaff and you search for "Pokestaff," it ain't gonna help.

5. Does someone with good e-mail files have the post that Count Griffyth put up about the new EK gatehouse? If so, can you e-mail it to me at liamstliam@gmail.com? Thanks!

6. Subject line on a porn post:

Earl Whooping Fuckstick.

I think I know him or is it Count Whooping Fuckstick that I know.

7. Several things caught my eye in the Tuesday New York Times.

Bo Diddley's obituary on the front page

The use of the word "crepuscular" -- look it up if you don't know it. I had to. ;)

The unhappy news that MasterCard has resurrected the thought-to-be-dead "Mr. Bill."

Oh-no.

Thursday evening: Questions, The Sequel

Posed by silverstah

1. How did you get involved in the SCA?

artisticphoenix had started strip fencing as a way to get out of the house and get some time for herself. (And think, it could have been yoga).

Some of the guys she fenced with starting bringing her to SCA practice, which was still going after regular practice.

That led our whole family into it, and we loved it.

I found a place I could carry things.
 
2. What is your favorite food?

Portuguese comfort food. Cut up two large potatoes and a half-pound of chourico. Boil, boil, boil. Mash together with some butter.

Also in that category, Portagee Stew Beef, breaded veal cutlets fresh out of the pan, pastina with butter and milk, and Salt Cod.

Yes, we see why I look like I do. I miss my WaWa a lot..

3.  Do you have any regrets?

Many. Especially the ones that accidentally hurt people.

4. What do you want to be doing in 5 years?

I have no idea. It's kinda scary.

I would love to be cranking out novels or teaching school or writing for a newspaper. I have never figured out what I want to be when I grow up.

5.  What is your most cherished childhood memory?

I still have the picture. Sometime in 1968. My first trip to Fenway. (Yeah, I am predictable). Dad took me. They played the Indians. The picture is me smiling with the Green Monster behind me. He also took me to the Boston Garden, around the same year, maybe a little later, to see the Knicks and Celtics and got me into the locker room, because he knew an electrician who worked there.

Posed by xgreenjudasx

1) Oh nos! Everyone in the chain of command has been killed or is about   to die from the President all the way down to your boss. You are now in  charge of rebuilding society, lucky you! Where do you start, what take  priority, and what things will you leave in the dust? PS: the land is   still fertile and the waters are relatively clean.

Essay questions. I get essay questions.

I would start with the farmers and the mechanics helping produce food, and the engineers and carpenters building places to live.

I would have to be a prick at times, just for the good of the group.

As soon as we had food, shelter and water, we would build a baseball diamond.

[That's a hard question.]

2) What is the hardest thing about parenting? How does your parenting style differ from your teaching style?

The hardest thing about parenting is that it's a two-person job. It's really hard to synchronize with your spouse on discipline issues. You want consistency, but it is hard.

Teaching? My classroom, and I will control it in my way. Yes, I follow school rules, but no one's going to tell me how to build relationships (which is the key to discipline). My kids are gonna call me "T," we're going to make mutual decisions on homework and test dates and formats, and if you say "fag," "gay" or "retarded," you are going to explain word choice to the dean. (Yes, there are other words and phrases on that list: "You are the worst fucking teacher in the school" -- which she later told me she said to all her teachers, and I was said -- and "Go Yankees.)

3) Give me a one sentence description of your perfect Pennsic moment.

I am standing right at the hay bales, on the Northern edge of the battlefield, on a sunny, bright blue-sky day -- 80 degrees and a slight wind -- with both sides lined up for the first field battle and I am shaken to my bones as the cannon go off and the two sides charge.

4) If you had the gift of becoming an instant virtuoso in one musical instrument, what would it be?

Bagpipes.

5) Baseball Slash Fic: Entertaining, or disturbing?

Only you could ask that question. Believe it or not, I have never read any. Have you? ;)

Maybe safirasilv will write some. It could include guys in mascot suits.

Posed by naharbeit

1) How do you feel about a Canadian (or Northern) Principality in the East Kingdom?

I completely agree with Their Excellencies Ruantallan. ;)

No, wait.

Northern, maybe. Canadian? That's up to you guys.

2) What attracted you to the SCA and does that aspect see still attract you now?

We got into the SCA as a family, and I liked it because it allowed us to do fun things together, yet we were still able to do our own things.

Now, it's the people. All the people.

3) What is you favorite food or cooking style?

Portuguese comfort food. Cut up two large potatoes and a half-pound of chourico. Boil, boil, boil. Mash together with some butter.

Also in that category, Portagee Stew Beef, breaded veal cutlets fresh out of the pan, pastina with butter and milk, and Salt Cod.

Yes, we see why I look like I do. I miss my WaWa a lot..

4) What is the best thing in your life right now?

My wife.

5) (a la James Lipton) What job would you LEAST like to attempt?

I would suck at being the Repo Man.

Posed by ladytat

1. When the world is crashing down - what do you do to combat it?

Hot shower. Cup of coffee. Comfort food. And crawl into bed and pull the covers over my head.

2. Why me? (protege not general life)

You had a great deal to offer. I knew I could learn from you. And I thought I could help you, too. I think I was right.

3. How did you meet your wife?

At the Dark Place.

We knew each other vaguely through the SCA, but the real connection came with her and gwendolyngrace, both wearing their hair long, flirting with me in industrialblues' kitchen several New Year's Eves ago.

As far as artisticphoenix goes, I love to tell the story. We lived on the same street. One day I took the dog for a walk, just as she was coming down the street in dad's El Camino. It was the first and only walk for the dog.

My sister told her she could do better.

4. If you could pick any place to live... where?

That's a very tough question.

The first answer that comes to mind is "on a ranch 30 miles outside Billings, Mont." I love Billings. It has a Rookie League baseball team and two brew pubs and three other breweries. What more do you need?

I love the West.

5. Is there one moment in your life that is brighter and clearer than any  other?

I have maybe a half-dozen really vivid moments that cycle through. Holding theresat for the first time is one of them. I was petrified I would drop her and worried about her mom. (And what her mom would do it I dropped her)