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Clark Matthews Goes Medieval On Your Ass

Published by
Clark Matthews
 on April 11, 2008

It started off innocently. While checking my email, which I normally do 974 times a day without incident, this message from Tony was found in the inbox:

From: Hanadarko, Tony

Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 12:17 PM

To: Nelson, Patrick

Cc: Matthews, Clark

Subject: Jenni Carlson deserves a Pulitzer

next weekend is the medieval fair in norman. it’s been years since i’ve been, but my recollection is that this is like the state fair of dorks. if either of you have nothing to do next weekend, it could provide some good material.

Being the good husband that I am, I begged off and I passed the buck to my wife. “With as much as I have been working, I can’t go without her and I doubt she’ll be up for going,” I replied. Then I made the mistake of actually telling her about it.

“(ClarkPupp) might enjoy that,” was all she said.

Conundrum. Her lukewarm endorsement meant I actually could go. Knowing Tony wasn’t going and that no amount of ale served in fancy containers could convince Patrick to attend, it was up to me to uncover the treasure trove of material available. Problem is, I didn’t want to go. So that meant I had to weigh the pluses and minuses of going.

  • Being surrounded by failed high school theatre geeks looking for an excuse to dress up in stage costumes and dust off their bad British accents. MINUS
  • Corndogs. PLUS
  • Taking my child to an outdoor festival. PLUS
  • Risking that my child will actually enjoy being around the Dungeons and Dragons crowd. MINUS
  • The cost: Free PLUS
  • Going to Norman. MINUS

After that exercise, I was right back to the drawing board. I finally decided to let the weather be the final arbiter, and I’llbedamned if it wasn’t perfect outside. So, that’s how I ended up at the Medieval Fair of Norman.

After the jump, I will share some observations and a few pictures. Continue reading ‘Clark Matthews Goes Medieval On Your Ass’

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Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Dorks…

Published by
Patrick
 on April 2, 2008

The coolest thing about the Medieval Fair of Norman is that it’s one of the those rare events that we, as bloggers, can honestly say is dorkier than writing for a blog. The second coolest thing about the Medieval Fair is that unlike our State Fair, you can go to it with the understanding that the people with weapons aren’t going to use them on you. The third coolest thing is that Clark Matthews will hopefully be there with his camera taking pictures and he will….

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Wait. Maybe sending Clark Matthews to a dorky place with a camera isn’t that good of an idea. That’s why instead of counting on Clark Matthews to send us good pictures from Dorkfest 2008, we are asking for our readers to send us the good stuff. You know, like pictures of a caricature artist dressed like an old Lego archer, or Mike McCarville dressed as a jester while controlling the white pieces on the human chess board or…better yet…a group of young busty scantily clad maidens running through the Duck Pond while eating turkey legs.

Seriously, as long as it is not this guy is not in any photo, any quality picture works. Send them to thelostogle at gmail.com. And if your picture is published on The Lost Ogle, we’ll give you a free trial offer to NetFlix.

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