Howard's Blog http://www.howard-allison.com it's not the fall...it's the sudden stop... Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:58:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Back from the Jungle :-) http://www.howard-allison.com/?p=153 http://www.howard-allison.com/?p=153#comments Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:13:00 +0000 Howard http://www.howard-allison.com/?p=153 I hope everybody had a great Christmas and New Year – I did :-)
Now I’m ever so slightly sunburned, and jet lagged… I took a few pics…. here they are …

Bolivia is a wonderful place, with wonderful people… and now I can say I’ve chewed coca leaves and eaten BBQ’d cow intestines :-)
I will be back.. no question..

]]> http://www.howard-allison.com/?feed=rss2&p=153 0 Today http://www.howard-allison.com/?p=150 http://www.howard-allison.com/?p=150#comments Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:01:05 +0000 Howard http://www.howard-allison.com/?p=150 yes they can.

]]> http://www.howard-allison.com/?feed=rss2&p=150 1 Things to do… http://www.howard-allison.com/?p=149 http://www.howard-allison.com/?p=149#comments Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:25:59 +0000 Howard http://www.howard-allison.com/?p=149 haven’t posted in a long while – I’ve been keeping busy with flag-football and…
learning Italian :-)

]]> http://www.howard-allison.com/?feed=rss2&p=149 0 Happy St. Patrick’s Day http://www.howard-allison.com/?p=148 http://www.howard-allison.com/?p=148#comments Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:34:00 +0000 Howard http://www.howard-allison.com/?p=148 I know, it’s tomorrow…but I’m not going to post tomorrow, so there.
To me, St. Patrick personifies religion – he is given credit for having drivin all of the snakes out of Ireland, when in fact there never were any snakes in Ireland(at least not after the glaciers)…this makes me a candidate for sainthood…having driven all of the blue whales out of Austria…and if my middle name wasn’t Patrick I’m sure I would have been granted sainthood by now…that damned Irish bastard stole the show…(My mother’s an O’Toole, for those that think I may be anti-Irish)
anyway…have a good one, and drink a Guiness – it’s good for you.

One of my all-time favorite traditional Irish songs:

]]> http://www.howard-allison.com/?feed=rss2&p=148 0 Jeff Healy http://www.howard-allison.com/?p=147 http://www.howard-allison.com/?p=147#comments Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:23:30 +0000 Howard http://www.howard-allison.com/?p=147 – ist gestern gestorben.
Hier ein Beispiel, aber für diejenigen die ihn nicht kennen(und deswegen ist dieser Beitrag auf Deutsch – die kanadischen LeserInnen kennen ihn schon), es lohnt sich einiges von ihm anzuhören.
Hier ist mehr Info

]]> http://www.howard-allison.com/?feed=rss2&p=147 1 Kent http://www.howard-allison.com/?p=145 http://www.howard-allison.com/?p=145#comments Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:47:42 +0000 Howard http://www.howard-allison.com/?p=145 Kent is an incredible group from Sweden – here’s one of my favorite tunes from their English CD – Isola
747

]]> http://www.howard-allison.com/?feed=rss2&p=145 0 Falco, superstar http://www.howard-allison.com/?p=144 http://www.howard-allison.com/?p=144#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:18:45 +0000 Howard http://www.howard-allison.com/?p=144 10 years ago today one of Austria’s all-time great musicians died. An incredible talent.
Falco.

]]> http://www.howard-allison.com/?feed=rss2&p=144 0 Graz http://www.howard-allison.com/?p=143 http://www.howard-allison.com/?p=143#comments Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:08:15 +0000 Howard http://www.howard-allison.com/?p=143 Spent last weekend in Graz, and managed to take a few pics before the hurricane came…and they’re here

]]> http://www.howard-allison.com/?feed=rss2&p=143 0 Filler http://www.howard-allison.com/?p=142 http://www.howard-allison.com/?p=142#comments Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:26:49 +0000 Howard http://www.howard-allison.com/?p=142 just to keep the search engines busy….more Canadian music…this time it’s K.D. Lang, who didn’t cause much of a stir in ultra-conservative Alberta when it was revealed she was gay, but her support of vegetarianism resulted in being blacklisted by western radio stations…power of the buck.

]]> http://www.howard-allison.com/?feed=rss2&p=142 0 Kicking off the New Year http://www.howard-allison.com/?p=141 http://www.howard-allison.com/?p=141#comments Tue, 01 Jan 2008 15:53:36 +0000 Howard http://www.howard-allison.com/?p=141 Although I know from experience that a New Year’s Eve party isn’t a sure cure for jetlag, it seems I never learn the lesson :-) . I did manage to take a few pics, but when you’re in Georgefield, Nova Scotia, there just isn’t much to photograph other than snow and trees…I did get a few pics of those incredible Nova Scotia storm sunrises. I also am breaking the post-Greece rule of no people pictures, but when you’ve got nieces as beautiful as mine sometimes you have to break the rules – I just wish the pics of my other nieces had turned out :-( .
Anyway – here are the pics – and as a special bonus, the incredible Rye, who spends his free time on Cruise Ships in the Antarctic when he isn’t rescuing damsels in distress, solving global warming, or picking me up at the airport gave me a video of a trip to the Antarctic on the ms Prinsendam when they unexpectedly ran into a bit of a storm – causing millions in damage to the ship, and resulting in more than a few injuries – when you watch this video, keep in mind this a 200+ meter long ship weighing in excess of 37,000 tons…
Have a great 2008!

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