DearYou, Sorry if your spam-blocker has been resisting these e-mails Many doctrinaire e-mail servers block out e-mail from centuries where neo-classicism is on the rise! (By Mercurius!) What's It Like Back Here?You ask for glimpses.Well . . . everything is totally different. For example: Kids Today are Glued to the Tube. . . crowded around the mountain-village storytellerand her scary, hollow-wooden-tube, "voice of God" digeridoo BrandingYou're inundated by personal and company logosback here . . . Knights (I mean real knights, not us fake knights) are always flouncing their logos around (logos being the coat of arms on their shields) and their squires are drawing their logos with charcoal on every wall and milestone they pass Every surface is crawling with graffitti back here. Every member of our Blue Company knows how to draw the Blue Company double arrow . . . and we leave it everywhere. I insist! That's my job! . . . and of course some guys get a captor's logo burned into their skin with hot metal AdvertisingTo attract attention at a crowded marketyou've got to yell . . . . . .and since there's not a hell of a lot else to do back here people pour their creativity into their yelling. Like . . . the smoked-eel store people do these elaborate skits (Rated L=Language, AS=Adult Situations) whilst waving smoked eels out the front of their pants The smoked-eel value proposition is medicinal --- smoked eels equal virility & bedroom stamina. Say you're approaching a town in which there are two competing inns . . . Each inn sends out a team of 2-4 people who race out onto the high road and start doing a little roadside performance I'm King Arthur and I'm weary where should I stay the night? GOLDEN ANGEL TOUT Why, sire, you should stay at the Golden Angel where we have the driest bedding straw in all of Christendom! ANNOUNCER Be sure to ask about our Spring Special, a bed, a meal, and a hand job all for the low, low price of . . . Greener GrassStar Wars II is opening, eh?All the costumed Vaders and Obiwans sleeping in line at the theater . . . One big fad back here right now is for knights to go to tournaments dressed up as King Arthur characters. The irony has not escaped some of us. Embarrassing as it is to admit, most of us transferred back here because we felt we were uncool and we wanted to participate in the coolness of being real knights so we discover that the real knights feel that they're uncool and want to participate in the coolness of being real real knights It never ends. The fire's gone out and I'm sleepy . . . A Groggy Good Night From Yr Bddy, Brt Alt |