Historical reenactment I can get behind--literally!

[muckefuck]

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.

Comments

[bunj.livejournal.com]

Too bad for you they don't go for complete historical accuracy and fight butt nekkid. I was always impressed by the bravery (and stupidity) of our ancestors the Gauls.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Your ancestors may have been Gauls, but mine weren't!

And stripes are so slimming!

[danbearnyc.livejournal.com]

[oh-meow.livejournal.com]

I saw a tv show here recently that was a documentary about some hippies in the 70s who spent a year living as iron age celtic farmers for a film, and then it had follow ups of the people 30 years later. One of the guys had got addicted to building wattle and daub things, and had about three sheds in his garden made of it, and was working on the next one.