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We were pleasantly surprised to hear the musical stylings of the incomparable Nick Doneff during lunch on the MV Northumberland crossing from Wood Islands to Caribou this morning. He really is a musical treasure. “It’s times like this that I’m proud to be an Islander,” Lisa said. Agreed.
I received the sad news this morning that my friend Allan Rankin has died . I was introduced to Allan many years ago: he and Roy Johnstone and I got together to see about having me make websites for them. Both had just released albums, and there was a sense in the air—a tentative, early, faint sense—that musicians should have websites. And so was hatched AllanRankin.com . In the process I became a…
In the season 7 episode of Billions , Original Sin , political consultant Bradford Luke walks into (billionaire and possible presidential candidate) Mike Prince’s office: Prince: How do you have Leo McGarry-like walk in privileges before you’ve even taken the job? Luke: Walk with a true sense of purpose. No one ever stops you. The Leo McGarry reference is, of course, to The West Wing —another…
From a conversation between Rick Rubin of the poet David Whyte on Rubin’s Tetragrammaton podcast : And then the last step I call harvest, and that’s the ability to bring in the harvest of everything you’ve been working towards. Both in the sense of, it might be harvesting a profit, but harvest in the sense of when you’ve produced a piece, it’s making sure it gets out in the world, and that you’re…
The awards for the 2024 edition of Island Fringe were presented last night, and among them was The Oscar Wilde Award , which I sponsor every year, presented to the show that “most effectively celebrates non-conformity.” This year the jury selected the show So an Autistic Priest and Dog Walk into a Bar… , written and presented by Jean-Daniel O’Donncada, described in the program as a “storytelling…
We’re posted up 50 m from the Adriatic, in Numana. About 280 km across the water in Croatia is where my grandfather was born. It is warm and, at least today, gloriously sunny.
While the La Festa dei Ceri on May 15 has a well-documented program, figuring out the timing and route of today’s first-Sunday-in-May repositioning event was more challenging, and involved piecing together bits of information from the web and Google Translated conversations. As it happens, we need not have worried, as it all played out on our doorstep on the Via dei Consoli . Anything we might…
Sunday morning in Serrazzano.
Lisa and I walked up to CBC Charlottetown this morning to record an interview with Matt Rainnie about our This Box is for Good project. As usual, Matt was an amiable and welcoming host.
Every year I sponsor the Oscar Wilde Award at Island Fringe , given to the show that “most effectively celebrates non-conformity.” The award-winning show is chosen by a jury, and evidence suggests that the process of jurying the shows is done with considerable thoughtfulness. Island Fringe is one of my favourite things, and watching the Oscar Wilde take on a life of its own continues to be a…
