Of no real interest ...
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hrj... to anyone not in the SCA in the West kingdom.
Ya know, I think I'm just going to skip October Crown. Too much assorted hoo-hah going on and I'd probably spend most of the weekend either dodging it or being bored silly by other people obsessing over it.
On the whole A&S champion/Golden Poppy front, I can neither acquiesce in "Winning the Golden Poppy is just too gosh darn hard so we'll take the A&S champion's title away from the Poppy and come up with some silly, easy contests to pick a champion" nor can I get all worked up by "Ohmighod! It's the end of the world! The Golden Poppies are being dissed!" Royalty have the right to do all manner of silly and wrong-headed things and they have the right to be held responsible for the silly and wrong-headed things they did down the years to come. Actions. Consequences. Deal. If I let myself get torqued by silly and wrong-headed things in the SCA, I'd have quit a long time ago.
The A&S championship should be damned hard to win! I did it twice (actually probably three times, but that's another story) and I wouldn't be nearly as proud of that if the competition had been dumbed down for fear no one would win it. I find it hard to believe that lowering the bar on the championship and marginalizing the role of the Golden Poppy will result in increased interest in the arts ... but hey, I could be wrong. (I have this silly notion that the way to increase interest in the arts is to Do Art -- and to do it to as high a standard as you know how.) All of which together also makes me uninterested in supporting the watered-down championship by helping judge all the added-at-the-last-minute competitions. (Although I suppose it's naked egotism to assume that I'd be asked.)
And then all sorts of people have been poking sticks in the 4th peerage order ant-hill and watching it boil over.
And if I cared about such things, there's the bit about the results of crown tourney being a foregone conclusion.
Maybe I'll just schedule another mundane camping trip for that weekend. The last one was really fun and it's time for another. Maybe something with a little hiking this time.
Ya know, I think I'm just going to skip October Crown. Too much assorted hoo-hah going on and I'd probably spend most of the weekend either dodging it or being bored silly by other people obsessing over it.
On the whole A&S champion/Golden Poppy front, I can neither acquiesce in "Winning the Golden Poppy is just too gosh darn hard so we'll take the A&S champion's title away from the Poppy and come up with some silly, easy contests to pick a champion" nor can I get all worked up by "Ohmighod! It's the end of the world! The Golden Poppies are being dissed!" Royalty have the right to do all manner of silly and wrong-headed things and they have the right to be held responsible for the silly and wrong-headed things they did down the years to come. Actions. Consequences. Deal. If I let myself get torqued by silly and wrong-headed things in the SCA, I'd have quit a long time ago.
The A&S championship should be damned hard to win! I did it twice (actually probably three times, but that's another story) and I wouldn't be nearly as proud of that if the competition had been dumbed down for fear no one would win it. I find it hard to believe that lowering the bar on the championship and marginalizing the role of the Golden Poppy will result in increased interest in the arts ... but hey, I could be wrong. (I have this silly notion that the way to increase interest in the arts is to Do Art -- and to do it to as high a standard as you know how.) All of which together also makes me uninterested in supporting the watered-down championship by helping judge all the added-at-the-last-minute competitions. (Although I suppose it's naked egotism to assume that I'd be asked.)
And then all sorts of people have been poking sticks in the 4th peerage order ant-hill and watching it boil over.
And if I cared about such things, there's the bit about the results of crown tourney being a foregone conclusion.
Maybe I'll just schedule another mundane camping trip for that weekend. The last one was really fun and it's time for another. Maybe something with a little hiking this time.
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I'd skip it, too.
Date: 2008-09-24 06:01 pm (UTC)If it weren't for the fact that I have a breast cancer fundraiser to run, I'd skip it and we could do something :-)
Meanwhile, though - we'll miss you at B4B!
Re: I'd skip it, too.
Date: 2008-09-24 06:43 pm (UTC)