Memorial for Brian von KleinSmid

A place to recall & share all the good times

Brian and the Tribe

It’s all Sandy’s fault. After we completed production on her student-film-that-really-wasn’t “The Faire Nerd”, Sandy’s ambitions led her to Solvang to produce a new Renaissance festival and bring something unexpected to the Scandinavian tourist trap. She somehow met up with Brian, who was introduced to me whilst he was busy organizing festival participants  and trying…

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What the Hell is That?

One thing that I will always remember about Brian is his, well I won’t say “good”..um, eclectic? Yes, eclectic taste in music. Usually at the end of fair, blasting out of his truck’s speakers as we tore down the camp and prepped for the long slog home. There were many times I stopped packing and…

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