Historic Illustrations of Dancing

[jducoeur]

Another ebook worth noting from Project Gutenberg -- The Dance: Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D., by "An Antiquary". Bearing in mind that the book is from 1911, so the scholarship is likely a bit dated, this is nonetheless a rich source of dance pictures from all ages, including two chapters on SCA period...

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[upasaka.livejournal.com]

Hi! and thanks for your response to my comment in the Masons community. There's a lot of good sense there [[ the sort of thing that made me say "Duh! of course! Why Didn't I Think Of It That Way!?!?

I see you were in Princeton when I was a student at Westminster Choir College (1980-1984). Did you perchance have any connection with Trinity Church? We might know some of the same folks.

Anyway, I am "friending" you. Please feel free to do the same if you wish, and don't take my overwrought state of the past week to seriously -- it's a church musician in December thing, mostly.

[jducoeur]

Did you perchance have any connection with Trinity Church?

'Fraid not. I wasn't actually living in Princeton, just going to high school there (at PDS, one of the private schools on the outskirts of town); I was living a town or two over, and didn't have many remaining connections in Princeton per se.

Anyway, I am "friending" you.

Welcome. Note that I occasionally get a tad cynical about Masonry in my journal -- don't take that too harshly, I'm just a shade burned out at this point. I do think it's a very good organization, but I've been an officer long enough (and continuously enough) to be a little over-aware of its warts...

[upasaka.livejournal.com]

hah!That's OK -- I am on the Philalethes e-list, so I know all about the warts...

[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Speaking of Masons... I have an anecdote that I keep meaning to tell you about, but forgetting when I actually see you.

I keep an IRC window open in the background on my computer at all times, and this leads to me occasionally stumbling into odd conversations. A couple weeks ago, the populace was discussing assasinations, and someone asserted that the mob doesn't really do assasinations anymore, you have to find a Freemason for that...

[jducoeur]

Heh. Yeah, there are times I wish the craft was a tenth as entertainingly sinister as its reputation...

[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

Speaking of which, did you see on arisia that someone's organizing a Masons thing at the con on Saturday morning of Arisia?

[jducoeur]

Hmm. No, I hadn't -- thanks for the pointer. Natually it's organized by Erik (who was talking about the idea last year), and I can probably guess about 75% of the people who will be there -- the fannish Masons mostly know each other.

Interesting, but I wish it wasn't scheduled against the Masquerade. I'll probably go iff the Masquerade is short this year, or if the meeting runs long enough for me to go afterwards...

[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

Huh. I totally read the 9pm as 9am the first time I saw it. That does indeed bite.