IRF 2003 and home again...

[vakkotaur]

The Iowa Renaissance Festival has come and gone again. I won't go into too much detail, I think. It was nice Saturday, and rained or at least drizzled for much of Sunday. Saw a few acts. Noted the absence of a few. Mainly talked with people I knew already. It seems I do less and less shopping and watching performances and more and more simple visiting.

One act I did see was the Shattock Schoole of Defence. I think I saw all three shows they did, and one was one I hadn't seen before. Based on Alice in Wonderland and it did have that quality to it though I didn't pick up on the reference(s).

Also met the ponies (Talon, Peanut Butter, Snickers, and Rowdy - who lives down to his name) and their owner. I found out why I hadn't seen them at ARA (Osceola). She'd loaned out the truck. "And it didn't come back in time?" I asked. "No, it came back. On a flatbed. Threw a rod." was the reply. Ouch. And right after other work (brakes, transmission) had been done. The ARA organizer was there and I did manage to get the folks together (or was it me?) and so things seem to be worked out for next year.

Saturday night was the usual (for smaller faires) supper gathering. Reservations had been made well in advance and having a room to ourselves worked nicely. Heard the tale of how a couple friends got a new, or at least different, vehicle. It was quite an ordeal of trying cars and finding faults for a couple weeks until they finally bought a vehicle from their mechanic rather than any of the dealers.

The big surprise, to me, was nothing to do with the faire at all, but once we got home. There was a poorly recorded message on the answering machine. Turns it out it was a reporter with the Christian Science Monitor who had come across the COLT while researching. He only wanted to confirm the sequence in Dripalong Daffy where Daffy bursts into the saloon... and gets completely ignored. He was using that to describe how Arnold is being ignored in the California recall. He had already submitted the story so it wasn't much help, but I did confirm he had it right about Daffy. I'm not so sure he's right about the rest of it. I suggested michaelmink's Warner Bros. Cartoon Companion and he said he had looked through it.