I was living with my folks the last time I saw the Ring Cycle on PBS in the US. I made my parents endure several hours of it before they said, enough! After all I had hi-jacked the TV for several nights. And I was in the middle of Siegfried, and well, maybe….. actually my [...]
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Which do you want? Love or Power: Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen Leave a comment
Dancing Bears on Main Street, Whitehorse: Sarah MacDougall, The Greatest Ones Alive 1 comment
So, I’ve always wanted to be a bear. Sarah MacDougall’s album, The Greatest Ones Alive, is being released at the Yukon Arts Centre on Saturday, Nov 12, and Erin and I decided to promote the album by being the dancing bears on the cover of her album. Costumes rented, we danced up and down Main [...]
Janelle Monáe and Science Fiction: Metropolis, Freedom, and the Other 3 comments
I like finding science fiction in odd places. Janelle Monáe is a genius. Think if the Archies had been a ska band with a funk lead singer. But she’s more than that. She’s also a brilliant storyteller. Her “Many Moons” reimagines the beginnings of science fiction cinema, Metropolis. She gives the silent film Metropolis the [...]
Howls and Hell Yeahs: The Celebration of the Life of Reid A. Parent 2 comments
I just returned from a beautiful service honouring the life of Reid A. Parent, a 25 year old man who touched the lives of tons of people before his untimely death in a car accident. Reid was the main speaker at the event. His words were all over the program–several of his journal entries revealed [...]
When Both the US and Canadian National Anthems Mean a Lot, You Sing Them Both With Your Hand On Your Heart 2 comments
I’m really proud to have been asked to sing the national anthems of the US and Canada at the Yukon Quest Banquet held in Whitehorse, this past February, 2010. As an immigrant to Canada, it meant the world to sing both anthems–they have a special meaning for me. It was a race from the [...]
Hounded (and Happy) in the Yukon Woods 1 comment
I can’t tell you how much I’ve enjoyed sitting a house with a dog over the holidays. I got to spend two weeks with a fine German Shepherd named Qimmik. He’s about 5 years old and over the last while we’ve bonded. How do I know this? He wants to go on long walks with [...]
Kuroshio Sea: a City Observed Leave a comment
How to do a House Party Right Leave a comment
I attended a house party Saturday night–sort of like the one pictured here. I’ve heard of things like this. Anne-Louise Genest explained a bit of the history of the kind of music she was playing with Sammy Lind and Nadine Landry that evening–how it might happen in a kitchen. The intimate setting was right. Miche [...]
Star Wars Barbershop: Moosebutter and Corey Vidal 4 comments
The Star Trek Barbershop Quartet: Hi-Fidelity 1 comment
How fun is this? Barbershop and Kirk and Spock. The second one–they speak about beaming down to a Barbershop Quartet contest…. enjoy. And then another one. Hi-Fidelity is the group and they are participating in a Barbershop Quartet contest. Grant and Lyall, if you were looking for a way to adapt the show towards those [...]
