Sep 30, 2024
A small sampling of the Time Travelers' weekend at Ohio Renaissance Festival with Bettina Bawdeville.
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A small sampling of the Time Travelers' weekend at Ohio Renaissance Festival with Bettina Bawdeville.
It's bawdy! It's pay-what-you-wish! It has amazing cover art by @raineszramski! It includes a bonus clip of Sylvester McCoy backing me up on the spoons!
Aaand it just fell from a great height! Pick up a digital copy today!
Find someone/s to look at you the way Bettina Bawdeville looks at the TARDIS
This Knight Who Says Ni at the Ohio Renaissance Festival demanded I cut down the tallest tree in the forest with... A HERRING!!
Who shall thou callst forth?
Did Sylvester McCoy just make me fetch him spoons so he could back me up while I played an original song on my ukulele at the Gallifrey One Doctor Who convention? Why yes, yes he did.
I was in my Fifth Doctor cosplay when I saw him holding court in the hotel bar, sprinted up to the room, threw on my vaudeville gear, grabbed my ukulele & gently accosted him.
"I'm a professional musician and you were a real influence on me."
"Oh? How so?"
"Well, I didn't know what all those little tricks you were doing as the Doctor when I was a kid were..."
"Me neither!"
"...but I later figured out it was vaudeville. And now I work as a musician at Renaissance faires, which is the new vaudeville circuit in America."
We discussed that a bit and then I asked if I could play him a song. I thought he might be joking when he told me to find him some spoons, but a minute later I was begging a bartender for silverware. It was so loud in the bar I could hardly hear my ukulele, so I can't say I gave my finest performance, but this was an enormous honor and I'm putting it on my resume.
At his panel the next day I asked Sly about his vaudeville/sideshow background and didn't realize the dear used to stick a ferret down his trousers and set himself on fire for a paycheck back in the olden days. Hoping for eventual video (both of the panel and of the fire).
Doctor Who Bingo @ the Renaissance Festival - post 2 of 2
Time Travelers Weekend (and beyond) at the Ohio Renaissance Festival 2021
Bettina Bawdeville tracks down ALL THE DOCTORS!
I wrote a genderqueer sea shanty for my bawdy Renaissance faire act, Bettina Bawdeville.
Enjoy "A Sailor's Life" (mildly NSFW)