28: The Year of the Adult?
Birthdays are a time of change and newness, more so than the calendar New Year (I’ve basically never made New Year’s resolutions), […]
Tourney Knight Takes a Knee
On July 27th, 2019, a performer in the Medieval Tourney entertainment troupe at Ren in the Glen, a small Renaissance festival held annually in Glenwood City, WI, proposed to his partner of six years. Donned in approximately 60 lbs. of Ukrainian steel in the midsummer heat, Rick Blatz, 27 at the time, challenged Mariah Sletten, 25, to a duel following the troupe’s first performance of the weekend.
As a regular part of the attraction, the end of the Tourney includes a “Fight the Knight” component, in which audience members have a chance to line up and take a swing at their favorite contenders…
20 Questions for Costumers in Quarantine: A New Year Review
It’s that time of year again: those early days, when we reflect on what the past year has brought, how we’ve grown, and what we can still improve upon going forward. To kickstart that for myself, I thought I’d take a look at one of my earlier YouTube videos.
The decision to start making videos was spurred on by the COVID-19 shutdowns. I thought they presented a great opportunity to “put myself out there” from the comfort of total isolation. Backward as that sounds, it was probably the best way for a person with social anxiety to get off the ground. Videos, it turns out, are hard–especially for an amateur team of only one. I’ve learned a good bit through trial and error, though, and I aim to keep experimenting with it…