The awards post -- revisited . . .

The deadline for recommendations for Their Majesties' second polling is Wednesday, Oct. 15.

This is for the three peerages -- Chivalry, Laurel and Pelican -- and for the five High Orders of Merit -- Order of the Tygers' Combatant, Maunche, Silver Crescent, Sagittarius and Order of the Golden Rapier.

TRM are not planning on a third polling, so you need to get these in by Oct. 15.

Use the recommendation form on the EK website if at all possible. If not, please send it to TRM@eastkingdom.com and copy me at liamstliam@gmail.com. The web site is preferred.

Please read this part: You do *not* have to be a member of an order or have a specific award to recommend someone for that award.

Again: You do *not* have to be a member of an order or have a specific award to recommend someone for that award.

For all other awards, feel free to write at any time . . . but, the sooner they get them, the better the chance of the award happening.

For all awards, please give as much background as possible. Give the local group and list any events you think the person might be at.

Now, from the Liamverse, "How to Write Someone in for an Award"

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So, there’s someone you know in the SCA, and you think they’re really spiffy. Maybe they have been playing for a couple of years, and they don’t have an Award of Arms. Perhaps you’ve seen someone run events, hold and office and constantly do things at events for four or five years, yet they don’t have a Silver Crescent. Maybe there’s someone in your group who has been at it for a long time, is always there, is a great fighter or great artisan and you wonder why they are not a peer yet.

 Some of this is my opinion, but here’s what you can do.

 First of all, quietly ask around, not so much for the AoA, but more for the other awards. Ask people in the order. If the person is proteged, squired or apprenticed, you would want to ask their peer.

 Check the East Kingdom Order of Precedence to make sure they don’t have the award. Really.

 Get lots of information on them. Yes, you need to do it quietly, but spouses and friends will often help. Get everything you can to build your case that the person deserves the award. When you write the recommendation, be specific, be thorough and do not be flowery. Make your point as succinctly as possibly. Be sure to identify where the person is from and anywhere else they have been. Identify yourself to the Crown has best you can. Include their local group and what events they might be attending in the future.

 The Order of Precedence and the information on specific awards are on the East Kingdom Website (www.eastkingdom.org). You will also find a form to submit award recommendations on the site. You must register to use the form.

In service,

Master Liam St, Liam
Major Domo to Their Majesties East

PS: You do *not* have to be a member of an order or have a specific award to recommend someone for that award.

Monday night: Four days to a three-day weekend . . .

1. I am still reveling in the good time I had at Winter's Night in Concordia.

My favorite part is that my friends are calling Baron Angus "The Sheriff of Servicetown."

This is the same guy who said to me, during cleanup Saturday, "I don't do service."

Yeah, dershmied dude, you do.

2. Better day at work today. I also had the partition moved, so my desk is a little more out in the open. Of course, after last week, any day I do not poke a pointy stick in my eye is better.

3. Apparently, Anne McCaffrey is not going to make it to Albacon. This is sad.

4. This is one of the cooler things I have learned from this year's presidential campaign:

From Wikipedia

A maverick is an unbranded range animal, especially a motherless calf; it can also mean a person who thinks independently; a lone dissenter; a non-conformist or rebel. The word first arose in mid-19th century America from Samuel Augustus Maverick, a Texas politician with a large ranch full of unbranded cattle

5. OK, what is the first thing Liam sees in this picture of the New York restaurant, the Spotted Pig?



NY Times photo

Nope, not the hot, tattooed bartender. I see the two cask engines (white handles at center), which means not only do they have great beer, they have some on cask, and beer almost always tastes better on cask. (Yes, Steve, it's like adding midgets to porn).

6. Speaking the the Times, apparently, poly is in. The article was a little flip, but we are going mainstream, I guess.

7. If you ever need a pick-me-up, here's Heather Alexander's March of Cambreadth.

Axes flash, broadswords swing
Shining armors’ piercing ring
Horses run with polished shield
Fight those bastards ‘til they yield

Midnight mare, blood red roan
Fight to keep this land your own
Sound the horn and call the cry
How many of them can we make die?