Catching Up...
BUENOS AIRES
IGUAZU FALLS, ARGENTINA
MORENO GLACIER NEAR EL CALAFATE IN ARGENTINA
BEAGLE CHANNEL OFF THE SOUTHERN COAST OF ARGENTINA
This is a shamefully neglected blog. It's not that I haven't been doing anything, the spirit just didn't move me to write about it here. This should change now due to the moribundity of the virtual community known as Blog for America. It started July 4 weekend of 2008. The new and young and very stupid powers that be at what once was Howard Dean's blog decided to flex their muscle. I won't bore you with minutia, suffice it to say that major bloggers who were my attraction to the site left. Then two or three folks started throwing virtual stones at a lady who says what she means and means what she says, even if it's out of the mainstream, and she left. So Blog for America is now like a Starbuck's that fell out of favor and no one much goes there any more. Anyway, there is another blog where many of these folks immigrated, but I'm not 100 percent comfy there, at least not yet, so maybe I'll just stay here for awhile, blogging with myself lol.
Spring semester was a slog, teaching two different classes with all that entails in preparation. And I decided pretty much on a whim to take a package tour of Argentina for spring break. The trip was exhausting - Argentina is far and it is long. But looking back, I'm so glad I took the plunge. For years I've been saying I would go to Patagonia before I die and, by damn I made it.
After finals in May, I went to New York for the weekend to hear the Divine One sing Banquo in Verdi's Macbeth at the Met. The next day I climbed stair after stair after stair to get to the nosebleed balcony to hear him sing Moussorgsky - an aria from Boris and Songs and Dances of Death - accompanied by the Met Orchestra. No fear, as everyone knows, Carnegie Hall's acoustics are perfect. And so is Rene of course.
BILLBOARD FOR RENE PAPE AT CARNEGIE HALL MAY 2008
A BLOODY AND "DEAD" RENE PAPE AS BANQUO ENJOYS A CURTAIN CALL AT THE MET MAY 2008
IGUAZU FALLS, ARGENTINA
MORENO GLACIER NEAR EL CALAFATE IN ARGENTINA
BEAGLE CHANNEL OFF THE SOUTHERN COAST OF ARGENTINA
This is a shamefully neglected blog. It's not that I haven't been doing anything, the spirit just didn't move me to write about it here. This should change now due to the moribundity of the virtual community known as Blog for America. It started July 4 weekend of 2008. The new and young and very stupid powers that be at what once was Howard Dean's blog decided to flex their muscle. I won't bore you with minutia, suffice it to say that major bloggers who were my attraction to the site left. Then two or three folks started throwing virtual stones at a lady who says what she means and means what she says, even if it's out of the mainstream, and she left. So Blog for America is now like a Starbuck's that fell out of favor and no one much goes there any more. Anyway, there is another blog where many of these folks immigrated, but I'm not 100 percent comfy there, at least not yet, so maybe I'll just stay here for awhile, blogging with myself lol.
Spring semester was a slog, teaching two different classes with all that entails in preparation. And I decided pretty much on a whim to take a package tour of Argentina for spring break. The trip was exhausting - Argentina is far and it is long. But looking back, I'm so glad I took the plunge. For years I've been saying I would go to Patagonia before I die and, by damn I made it.
After finals in May, I went to New York for the weekend to hear the Divine One sing Banquo in Verdi's Macbeth at the Met. The next day I climbed stair after stair after stair to get to the nosebleed balcony to hear him sing Moussorgsky - an aria from Boris and Songs and Dances of Death - accompanied by the Met Orchestra. No fear, as everyone knows, Carnegie Hall's acoustics are perfect. And so is Rene of course.
BILLBOARD FOR RENE PAPE AT CARNEGIE HALL MAY 2008
A BLOODY AND "DEAD" RENE PAPE AS BANQUO ENJOYS A CURTAIN CALL AT THE MET MAY 2008
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