DTED: Wicked Faire 2011

This was my first year (of hopefully many more) attending Wicked Faire, a giant mash-up of what-have-you alt culture that revels in a staggering line-up of concerts, vendors, burlesque, live shows, costumes, more concerts, and all around mayhem.  Exhilarating and exhausting at the same time.  I am so glad I had off for Presidents Day to recouperate.

I’m not even going to try to detail all the different bands we stumbled into so instead just go here and browse around for a while.  Acts that stood out in my mind: The Dark Clan, This Way to the Egress, and Psyche Corporation, who we hung out with after one of her performances and shoved cake in her face.

I also got a new waistcoat from Festooned Butterfly, who was in the hotel room three doors down from us and absolutely wonderful.  I must have gone through their entire collection of size 34 waistcoats before settling on the first one I had picked up.  They were all so spectacular.

Anyways, now I’m all detoxed and back to the old schedule (though this sudden snowfall is playing games with my weather senses).  My zombie epic is making rather good progress, besides its ongoing lack of a good title, and I’m learning more about natural dyes of the ancient world than I ever thought possible.  When I mysteriously get transported back to ancient Egypt and they demand verdigris dye I will totally be ready.

Posted: February 22nd, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Daniel's Terribly Exciting Diary | 3 Comments »

3 Comments on “DTED: Wicked Faire 2011”

  1. 1 Tom Wheatley said at 10:14 pm on February 23rd, 2011:

    Verdigris dye was the purple dye made from seashells that only royalty could wear, right?

  2. 2 daniel said at 11:42 pm on February 23rd, 2011:

    No, you’re thinking of Tyrian purple. Verdigris was a blue-green dye that was made from oxidizing copper (usually by hanging plates over hot vinegar).

  3. 3 Ray said at 11:40 pm on February 28th, 2011:

    My first thought was ambergris, which is much nastier and all together less colorful.

    Why was I commenting again? Oh, right. You’re entirely too young to call a silk vest a waistcoat, Daniel. There’s “old at heart” and then there’s, well… that.

    I tried to type a cheeky emoticon, but my soul winced so I deleted it. You’re welcome.

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