Aug. 6th, 2009

gurdymonkey: (brain cramp)
As long as my kingdom insists on holding its Collegia in hotels, I fear I must  insist on not attending.

Yes, I realize the medieval-ambience argument has holes in it: I've done my fair share of eventing in schools, church halls, and even a Twelfth Night in a freezing armory with filthy floors somewhere in upstate New York.

And I realize that spring Collegium was at a hotel because of financial fallout from prior use of said hotel by the Kingdom and it was a use-it-or-lose-it proposition. However, this afternoon's announcement mentions a hotel that I am not aware of the Kingdom having used in the years I've been in the West. Therefore, I can only conclude that someone or multiple someones like Collegium-Con events.

I don't. That's not what I come to the SCA for. I particularly dislike the assumption that we can/should spend money on hotel rooms so we can socialize with people we see on a semi-regular basis anyway. After all, this is the kingdom that hates the NMS on the basis of the starving-student argument, so much so that it often gets paid from donations by the populace.

I will be teaching at Collegium Caidis (by invitation). I will be teaching at Great Western War. And I have just been invited to teach in Silver Desert on the weekend of September 12. I do believe the weekend of October 24 might be the perfect time for the Curmudgeon to take a well earned break.
gurdymonkey: (yeahright)
My Dear Mr. Grahame-Smith: 

Had you actually bothered to disinter the late Miss Austen long enough to collaborate properly, rather than simply plagiarize random chunks of her generally clever and elegant prose, this reader would not have flung the offending volume in disgust across the drawing room at the repeated mis-use of His Majesty's English. To "dispense with" means to do without. To dispense means to grant, give, or mete, as in "dispense justice." A bottle may perhaps "dispense of" its contents, however, the only way your protagonist might "dispense of" a zombie would be to give birth to one. Or perhaps, since it appears to be a leitmotif of your soi-disant "narrative," vomit one up. 

This writer will say, however, that your novel made a most agreeable thump as it rebounded off the wainscoting.

Your reader no longer,

Jane Eyre Rochester, Vampire Slayer

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