Halloween

[Jason Moore]

I love this holiday, to me it ranks right up there with Christmas. Is anyone dressing up? If so, we should post pics! I will probably be Jason Voorhees as I am every year.

[Richard Johnson]

Whzat is the point of owning swords if you cannot show them off occasionally?

But an ex-gf has invited me to her halloween costume party and as soon as I can find a date sexie than she is...

[Dotanuki]

If Mako will give me my eyepatch back, I will be able to go out as Trip Fisk>:)

[Jason Moore]

=))

[Jason Moore]

Whzat is the point of owning swords if you cannot show them off occasionally?

But an ex-gf has invited me to her halloween costume party and as soon as I can find a date sexie than she is...

Wow Richard, awesome pics! Is that you in any of them?

[Richard Johnson]

But I made the outfits and gear.
The sword in the Russ pic is an Oscar koblomovich blade I ladapted by lengthening the handle, adding rayskin plus made the pommel and modified the guard. Also made the sheath, shield, dagger, hat and canteen plus a lot of other gear you cannot see in this pic.

The daisho are Cold Steel Warrior in one pic and Paul Cehn Practical Plus in the other.

Now, about that really hot chick to take to my ex-gf's halloween party to make her wish she hadn't dumped me for an older, fatter guy with no staying power but more money.

And if you are really interested, this is what I really look like.. or did whan I was stationed in Arabia, living in a tent, doing nothing other than protecting America's right to steal oil so a few people can get rich on the bodies of people like me.

[Jason Moore]

Well, really cool stuff...about the politics, I stay outta that kinda stuff! ;)

[Richard Johnson]

Also have a ninja night suit I have from when I studied the art but frankly, I want to carry all the junk you see in the movies and when I do, I look like I weigh 500# and can't stand up.
But am looking for a decent hollywood ninja sword. I had the Franklin Mint version but sold it to a freind who still owes me $180 before it's paid off. I told him I would sell it for $400 but dropped the price to $200 and he really shouldn't ask his gf how she convinced me to drop the price so low<g>.

i'm a sick, twisted person<g>.

[Dotanuki]

Richard,
That's some creative work there, tie up your kimono sleeves and buy a black wig tied up like a Japanese topknot and you're good to go. I really liked the shield in picture 4 and would like to see more of the chainmail shirt.
That type of creativity usually comes from SCA members, are you one perchance?

[Richard Johnson]

But I left over the politics (you can gat an Award for getting the king laid) and the total readjustment of the rules to prevent people who refuse to wear armor from getting hurt by those of us who did. That and the fashion police and the peopel whose life was so totally emptythat being a 12th level D&D whatever or a SCA baron or grand High Priest of some pagan group was the only thing they had to make them feel like they weren't a waste of their father's sperm.

Now I admit I may not have much of a life but I DO things other than sit in front of a keyboard <oops>. I kayak and run river races, traveled all over the world building hospitals, schools and such, study martial arts, fight for civil rights and so on....

So now I make things because it's fun and a test of my engineering and design abilities.

Thus, to think about it... Mike owes me $180 for that Franklin Mint ninja sword. Tish the ex-gf owes me $700 for her car repair. Lisa owes me $250 for her car not to mention all those people who owe me $20 each....
IF I could get paid back, I wouldn't be buying entry-level swords, but could actually pay money for some high-end blades.
...
or maybe if i wised up and stopped loaning money to deadbeats i could afford something nicer?

hmmm, there is a lesson there but I am too dense to see it. Maybe if I wore my hard-hat more often when I stand up under the bathroom sink.....

[Richard Johnson]

Where are you pics from past, present and future dress-up?

[RedZorak]

Alas, I have class on Halloween night... unless it gets cancelled, or I, uh, forget;) If so, then I will probably dress as a ninja and scare the neighborhood children. They usually get a kick out of it:)

[Dotanuki]

Hmmmmmm,.......................................... .

Richard, what was that statement you made about "the Grand High Priest of a Pagan Cult"? According to your website, I thought you were already one!! And that is 'everyday' not just Halloween!!>:)

I just hope we don't have too many Christian Fundamentalists here or we might have:torch::torch::torch: [BURN THE WITCH!!]
[Joking,I hope!!]

And to think, Jason was worried about politics:-?

[Jason Moore]

Where are you pics from past, present and future dress-up?

I never took any pictures...I will take some this year and post them for ya...

[Mako]

If Mako will give me my eyepatch back, I will be able to go out as Trip Fisk>:)
Errm...sorry but I sold it on ebay as one half of a Pamela Anderson bra'.:>

[Richard Johnson]

It's worse than a D&D con.
When you introdude yourself, I simply say words to the effect, "I am Rick Johnson, Wiccan since 1972, Third Degree Gardnerian and High Priest of Desert Henge Coven."
Then everyone else introduces themselves as, "I am Shadowtalker Wolfrider, Grand High Priest of the Amorkian Tradition which is a super-secret ancient way that practices gardnerian, alexandrian, sheban, green, summerain, cimmerian, klingnon, viking, vampire-ninja witchcraft."
They wear black leather, shave their heads (and more probably), spend a college education on tatoos and piercings, keep a cheap bowie-knife in their boot and carry some sword-like object made of cheap stainless steel that you find at the swap meet for $15 but they claim it is an authentic Atlanatian warrior-priest blade that is 10,000 years old.


And really all you want to do is laugh at them and cut their sword into pieces with your pocket-knife because they give us ALL a bad name.

The only good thing about these people is that I sold a LOT of my cheap wall-hangers to them so I could but some good swords<g>.

And Halloween brings them all out of the mental wards!

Really! I spent my life fighting for equal rights of Pagans. I was the forst person to force the USAFto list my religion as Wicca, helped write a number of chaplains books on Wicca, legalized Witches Weddings in Arizona (plus legalized islamic wedding too... hey, freedome must be for everyone) and did classes for the police academy and helped the police solve a number of ccult crimes.
I don't like some flake making me look like a freak by association.

Ok, I am strange<g>. I own swords, study martial arts, write Burroughs and Red Sonja fan-fic, kayak without a PFD when I cannot swim, spent 26 years as CE in the Air Force and was hired by my fellow Servicemen to do the occasional spell for good or bad weather or to get out of trouble. And one day I chased my boss down the barracks with a shortsword ebcause he woke me up drunk at 2am. But I am not a freak.

Like Ray Stevens says, "I used to be crazy but I'm a whole lot better now!<GGG>

[Jason Moore]

=)) That was awesome!=))

[Richard Johnson]

Errm...sorry but I sold it on ebay as one half of a Pamela Anderson bra'.:>

Which one, the original enhanced Babewatch Pam Anderson in slo-mo or the post reduction Pam Anderson when her career went intothe toilet or the modern newly-enhanced Pam Anderson that caused a resurgance in her career?

Each version would be a different sized eyepatch?

Not that I care, I'll never date her so she still looks good!

[Mako]

Which one, the original enhanced Babewatch Pam Anderson in slo-mo or the post reduction Pam Anderson when her career went intothe toilet or the modern newly-enhanced Pam Anderson that caused a resurgance in her career?

Each version would be a different sized eyepatch?

Not that I care, I'll never date her so she still looks good!

Better ask Dotanuki...it was his eyepatch.:)

[Richard Johnson]

Ever see the _Ninja Vixens_ series of movies?
Lots of hot girls in micro-mini kimonos and swords. Lots of bad fighting and nudity.

Imagine Pam in a very short and very loose (or tight so long as it reveals) kisode with a katana in the obi.

Or... Nikki Cox, Jamie Bergman, fill in the blank.

Ok, I need to send a letter to Jamie (different one) who is looking for a sword for her birthday. I'll send a short kisode too and a cheap digital camera.....
And you wonder why I am bidding on all these swords in the closeouts!

[Dotanuki]

Mako,
When Kid Rock finds out you sold "MY" half of Pam's bra he will probably try to punch you out.;) That smiley is not winking, Kid punched him in the eye!!
And when were you planning to send me my half of the proceeds??

Richard,
Bikini tops cut in half make good disquises [eyepatch] when you are trying to leave motel rooms incognito.:-O

Mako,
I hope you realise we could have got more money if you hadn't of washed that eyepatch [bra]=P~

[Mako]

Mako,
.....And when were you planning to send me my half of the proceeds??
I wasn't.>:)

Mako,
I hope you realise we could have got more money if you hadn't of washed that eyepatch [bra]=P~
That's true but it was smelling of silicon and where did the "we" come from? :)