Historical reenactment I can get behind--literally!

Yesterday I cataloged a book by the French "reconstituteur" Franck Mathieu. Now, I don't know how military reenactors are perceived generally, but among most of my acquaintances they seem to be on a par with LARPers, only older and with less imagination. In short, a quintessentially "geeky dad" hobby. That would make them so rich in my kind of eye candy, you might well ask how I could resist these events, but it would quickly become difficult to explain my presence without getting sucked into dressing up with everyone else. And wearing a scratchy wool coat in a soggy field on a sticky day? That's right up there with bucking bales on the fun-o-metre as far as I'm concerned. Plus you just know that the situational homosexuality is not part of the role-playing script.

But Mathieu's group, Les LEUKI, is dedicated to historical reconstruction of protohistorical Gaulish combat. Seeing page after page of furry-faced Frenchmen dressed up like Asterix and Obelix almost made a convert out of me. Sad that the stills on the site don't give you a proper idea--they seem to have picked the weediest guys rather than the big-bellied and bare-legged beauties that appeared in the book. When the warrior band "Les ARTOI" gets off the ground, someone needs to let me know.