This is a post about the history of the Club’s presence on the web.  You are warned!

This blog will be a repository of the many ideas for the upcoming Corpus Cristi Festival 2008! If you have further ideas, or responses to ideas here, feel free to respond below!

As a seasoned participant in feasts, I have a few suggestions that might be helpful, if I may.

(This is a paper I wrote for my ENGL 316 tech-writing class, and I’m just stuck up enough to think some clubbies might just be interested in reading it . Please forgive any errors, and any references to a certain Society that Cannot be Announced. My original plan was to include footnoted scans of all the artwork that I referenced, and I might still do that someday, but as it stands parts of it might be a little hard to follow — if you really want the juicy bits of my research, check out the books in my bibliography and follow along with the paper. I trust you all implicitly, but I still get to say that it’s copyright Ashley Lane, 2007, so don’t nobody try to say it’s theirs )

To His Majesty King Charles the Blue,

I am Yamanouchi no Daijirou no Eidou (山之中の大二郎の栄堂), also called Andrew Aedo. Though of the Sophomoric Status within the University system, I am an experienced member within the circles and guilds of the Quill and the Sword. I was originally brought into the fold of the Club and trained by His Late Majesty King Ramon de Javier, also Called Travis Schenck. I am well acquainted with the leadership of club and have been a supporter of club since my first introduction to it.
Having witnessed the organization and workings of club in my days, I see that there is a need that the doings of the Quill and the Sword be written down for the knowledge of they who come after us. To this end, I hereby and officially announce my intention to become the humble servant of the King as the Club Historian. Acting as the Recorder of events and meetings, and also of traditions, I shall endeavor to spare no effort. I shall do naught but his majesty’s will in this work and so bring glory and remembrance to the Reign of King Charles the Blue. I hope that I may be supported by the membership of the Quill and the Sword in this endeavor.

Sincerely,
Yamanouchi no Daijirou no Eidou

It’s no secret that I somewhat enjoy controversy. I don’t enjoy making people mad, of course, but I must admit that when people confront a controversial idea or situation they generally learn something—usually something about themselves. Please don’t imagine that I’m talking about any BIG controversies or politics; like I said, I do not enjoy seeing people get mad. Think of me as the annoying guy who yells at the screen about inaccuracies when watching “The Lord of the Rings”: merely annoying.

Well, they aren’t.

Apparently many of us have a bizarre urge to name ourselves and other people names that they did not start out with.

So, the Quill and the Sword is gone… until August, at least.

In the meantime, we have friends across the country and even across the globe (I think Snorri’s still in Europe right now?).

I don’t know about everyone else, but I usually find around this time of the year that I start to think about the beginning of Fall Semester and seeing friends again. Then I start to think about lectures, fire-lit bardics, feasts (kinda), Corpus Christi, Club Week, and all sorts of other stuff.

So I think it would be fun to sit back and daydream a little about what we might hope to expect in the Fall. Feel free to respond, but please keep it civil. I’m just wondering what you all would like to do; please no dull axes to grind.

See you all at the end of August!

Let’s face it. I’m rather lazy when it comes to research. Though the library ha a fair amount of books on historical costuming, I don’t have the wherewithal to actually look it up. But I have delved into the expansive Internet and found more than a few sources to assist in garb construction and styles. It’s mostly Tudor/Elizabethan, but a little earlier period as well.