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Richard

Location: Mt. Hope

Home or favorite faire Home faire is PARF. Being closest and fairly long running, it's also my favorite, but I also make yearly trips to NCRF in Raleigh (love the onsite camping) and I'm hoping to visit other faires in the North East.

About Me Likes? Let's see. . .um. . faire, duh! Got into faire way back during my acting days (that's about 20 years and 50 lbs ago) when I was on cast at PARF. Got back into faire as a playtron a few years back and have been having a blast with it ever since!

Apart from garbing up and getting into character, I enjoy reading, gaming, doing pretty much anything outdoors, being a dad (my most enjoyable and important function), going to the gym (a new development for me), and writing (anyone want to read my manuscripts? nudge nudge)

Music In my younger days, I was into what we called "New Wave". Now I'm mostly into reggae and celtic rock. Great Big Sea from Newfoundland is my favorite group these days, caught them in concert in Harrisburg a few months back and they were FANTASTIC!

Movies I like action adventure films with a sci-fi or fantasy bent (LOTR for example), but I'm also a sap for a good romantic comedy. I caught "Music and Lyrics" on a flight to Germany recently and I'm man enough to admit that I laughed AND cried.

TV Lost, Battlestar Galactica (the new one), Special Unit 2 (a recent discovery, pretty much anything on the History or Discovery channels. I also love watching any sort of reality show where people are building or making something, like the original Junkyard Wars or American Chopper or even Ace of Cakes.

Books Tolkien is my greatest influence as a writer, not necessarily because of his fantasy content, but because of the way he approached his writing. Tolkien didn't write stories, he invented a world and allowed stories to unfold in them. Larry Niven does the same thing. I try to follow this ideal in my own writing.

Likes Cool stuff.

Dislikes Stuff that is not cool.

Hobbies Faire of course, and making my own garb for faire. Yes, it's true, I build all my own garb AND I'm straight. Go figure.

Vices Most of them, including drunkenness (on a purely social and occasional basis, I assure you), sloth (except when I go to work or the gym), and lechery (my personal favorite).

Virtues All those which don't interfere with my vices.

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