And Now, For Something Completely Archival
Monday, November 16th, 2009 | From the Keeper's Desk
Greetings there!
Just another sporadic-out-of-the-blue-totally-not-in-keeping-with-our-regular-schedule post. Neither rain nor sleet nor blanket of snow kept us from our appointed task, nor did the few hummingbird stragglers buzzing around waiting for the prevailing winds of the next cold front distract us from writing to you of a new upload onto the site.
No, indeed, it was the fact that both Tina and I took time out of our lives to meet each other at the Newark Airport and fly to London, England at the end of October. At least, that’s the excuse we have THIS time. But oh, what a fun time we had elaborating on that excuse! We stayed in a flat in Canary Wharf and took an excursion to Portsmouth to see the HMS Victory, as well as to Bath and Leeds Castle, and essentially toodled around London itself to experience both its day and night life and its cultural centers…not to mention one foray that prompted a new phrase for the two of us: “what happens in Paddington, STAYS in Paddington.”
No, I will not elaborate on that. At least not here.
Anyway, we were mindful on our return that it had been a while since we posted anything new and Tina was determined to bring to the fore a particular favorite of Gaslight members of the past, one that we hope you will find entertaining and inspiring. PICFEST - an ever evolving…er…documentary? Report? Round-robin involving all of your favorite characters as played by the Inimitable Mr. Crowe (well, at least those characters up to and including Maximus Decimus Meridius.)
There *are* a few quirks present in the story, such as: it began as a lark and with humor, but quickly became a saga of personalities and drama and pathos in ways that can only happen at a place called The Crowe’s Nest…which leads me to the second quirk: the Nest was the original name of the alternate universe where “the Boyz” resided before it eventually became the Crowe’s Point.
Another quirk will become quickly obvious: there are pictures involved in the telling of the story, the author(s) writing the scene to fit the picture (or finding the picture to fit the scene) and this makes our document voluminous…so that’s what we’ve done: created volumes, the first of which we’d like to announce as now linked in our Crowe’s Chronicles Page under the Multiple heading and one of the documents loaded into our Scribd account.
So if youre an old ‘fan’ of Gaslight and wondered whatever happened to PicFest, here it is back in “living color;” and, if you’re a newcomer to the world of Crowe’s Point (er, Nest) boy, are you in for a treat!
The first volume of PicFest contains the first three chapters. Subsequent volumes are currently being reformatted and prepped to load and we will announce each upload as it occurs.
Your ever-wandering web mistress,
Sharon
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