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San Jacinto Day, 2014

Once again I headed over to the San Jacinto Day Battle Re-enactment. Once again, the Mexicans held to their old failed tactics. Once again, the Mexicans lost. Badly. I talked to a couple of the survivors after the event and they told me they were hoping to deploy some secret …

Gone Shopping.

To build a business that will never know completion, but that will progress continually to meet advancing conditions. To evince a knowledge of merchandise that will be authoritative to a notable degree. To create a personality that will be known for its strength and friendliness. To arrange and co-ordinate activities …

A Dickens of a Time…

A week after the Renaissance Festival run ends, the Galveston Historical Foundation holds their festival, Dickens On The Strand, a single-weekend street festival celebrating the city’s Victorian-era history and trade. The appeal is similar to the Renaissance Festival, and I noticed several Renaissance players following their seven weeks of work …

Good Day t’ye, Lords and Ladies….

First up: The Texas Renaissance Festival. I could rattle on at length about this place: One of the earliest Renaissance Festivals in the country, by their account the largest AND one of the biggest, etc., etc. It’s been going on rain or shine (or both sometimes) for nearly 40 years …

Howdy, y’all!

You have arrived at the new Highly Classified Very Very Secret Thing In Process. Which is still sort of In Process, but it’s been Under Wraps long enough that it needs a little bit of air, and it’s starting to take some more serious shape, so it’s time for a …