This is me, hard at work, on the right. Click on the sketch to view it full size. Many thanx to Erik Huffine for it.
I've recently taken a re-interest in juggling. I'm fairly adept with three balls/rings/clubs/torches what-have-you, and am now working up to four or five. I've also started practicing devil sticks and contact juggling (those of you who have seen Labyrinth should know what this looks like, and no, that was not David Bowie doing those tricks). If you're in the Columbia, SC area and would like to learn or improve your juggling skills, come out and meet the folks of The Columbia Juggling Club.
I listen to all sorts
of music. From top 40 to alternative to classical to new age to ambient/techno to rap to folk to traditional to international.
Recently, I find myself listening to public radio more and more
frequently. I highly recommend
Echoes
, a nightly musical soundscape, as well as
Hearts of Space
. And, if you get the chance, try the "What Do You Know?" quizzes or
A Prairie Home Companion.
I also enjoy playing music, as well. I've been playing
French horn
for fourrteen years, and have been playing a
recorder
for five. My piano chops are rusty, but I'm working on them, and I'm trying to teach myself classical guitar, trombone, and bassoon. I've also had lessons on clarinet, saxophone, cello, and trumpet. And I've now got it in my head that I want to play the Celtic harp and Highland
bagpipes.
Finally, I fancy myself as an amateur composer. Besides the normal improvisations (melodic lines and countermelodies, jigs and reels, solos, etc.), I spent two quarters in Georgia Southern's electronic digital music studio and wrote my first magnum opus. I still haven't named it, though. Aside from one or two spots I have to "fix," I'm rather proud of it, combining the Romantic era with today's new age. And everyone dies at the end (okay, not really). If I ever get enough disk space to put it
in and you have enough patience to wait, you might hear it one day.
I spend a good portion of my free time gaming. Board games, card games, roleplaying games--you name it, I'll try it. I love games so much I got a job at Boardwalk and Park Place--Purveyor of Fine Games. I've also started to review games. This started out as simply an online list of my games, but is slowly growing beyond it. I'm a member of the Round Table Gaming Society, a USC gaming club, and StarZone, a sci-fi fandom club. I also attend the many conventions here in the southeast (and further if I can make it). If you show up, I'll probably be one of the people behind the gaming registration desk.
I'm an on-again, off-again member of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA), currently known as Alwyn Feather the Foolish. Presently at the "on-again" stage, I've begun teaching medieval/SCA dance to some of the local members (and others). I've also been newly appointed as the Deputy Arts and Science officer. This has me wondering: Who's more foolish? I or the people who put me in this spot?
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I've recently become a minion of Darkness, and you can too!
Send loving email to my friend, Ron.
He won't mind, honest . . .
- or -
Mail him a complaint letter,
courtesy of Scott Pakin's automatic complaint-letter generator.
(Note: You'll have to actually mail it to him yourself . . .)
You've just been named visitor number
.
What are you going to do now?!?!?