As I noted a toward the end of last month I plan on participating in the NaBloPoMo idea for the month of February. The theme for the month is wants. There are lots of ways to interpret the theme of wants and I thought I would start off with something that I have been thinking about a little bit of late and especially this afternoon. Before I got into that though, it should be noted that I will not be using the theme for every post this month, but I will pick it up on occasion.
Gulf Wars XVIII is coming up this March, specifically the 15th-22nd thereof down in Lumberton, Mississippi. For those of you keeping track of such things, yeah, it is time for me to make that long trek down southward again, as I have been every other year since Gulf Wars X. And this year, as usual, I will be taking horses down with me.
As I continue my discussion of answers to common questions that I get in regards to the who, where, and how of jousting, I am going to turn to the International Jousting Association. The IJA, as it is often referred to is just what is sounds like. It is an international organization of like-minded jousters from around the world. The membership numbers are much smaller than that of the SCA (see my previous post in this series for more information). It is also, especially when compared to the SCA, much harder to become a member.
Mongol, the movie is coming out on HBO (and recently was released on DVD) this month and once again I am running this far behind in giving a review of it. I actually caught this at the theater in probably its last week at the cheap cinema back during the summer sometime. The movie itself it definitely not for everyone. First is the fact that is a historical biographical film that is slightly over two hours long. Add to that, it was done by a foreign film crew by director Sergei Bodrov, who is Russian. And lastly consider that the entire movie is filmed using a mixture language, mostly Mongolian, and subtitled.
