Michael's Continuing Fame

My sweet husband has appeared so many times in our local paper, and has shared his time in the paper so much, that my SILs have been asking him, "Are you the only person in Crescent City???" But between Willy Wonka and Michael's starring role in the recent solar eclipse (get it -- "star"ring?), he is pretty much the man about town. When he was Willy Wonka, many people tried on his hat for size, none cuter than Darcy:

But, just like Darcy, almost no-one else could fill that hat quite right. 


For the eclipse, Michael was at Point St. George with two of his co-workers interpreting the event for visitors from near and far. We started out there with my cousin and her friends from Portland, but just as it was starting, the fog moved in and blocked the view. We drove inland. Not much -- just to the high school parking lot and got a good show all the way though the "ring of fire". We're only about 20 miles from THE place to view this particular eclipse, so we had about four or five minutes of the ring. Poor Michael didn't get to see it because of the fog, but he did get his picture on the front cover of the newspaper. Again.

As if this is not enough fame for one person to handle, Michael also has a radio show these days. Our local community station hands out radio shows like candy, apparently, because Michael walked in to get information about how to get a show and walked out with the 8 to 10 slot on Wednesday nights. His show is called Death to Classical and features themed collections of classical music. Last night was "For the birds". The signal goes out to the downtown Crescent City neighborhood only -- and we're talking radius of three or four blocks, pretty much. But you can listen online. I don't think they're recorded, so you easterners will have to stay up extra late to listen. Or you can just check out his show's page.

Do You Prezi?

I think that almost sounds dirty, but it's not, I promise! Prezi is a new presentation tool that threatens PowerPoint as the be-all, end-all of meeting presentations. A really wonderful Prezi that makes the rounds of Facebook is "This Anthropology", a response to Florida's Governor Rick Scott's announcement that subjects like anthropology don't need to be taught in Florida's universities. Because, of course, anthropologists like the Glores don't do anything useful. It's well worth watching (which you do by clicking on the arrow at the bottom of the presentation when you're ready to move on).

So I've been playing with Prezi for work. I practiced by making a Prezi about our Food Day event. It's not perfect: Prezi makes it very easy to embed YouTube videos, but videos from other sources, so I had to swap out one movie. You can watch the Prezi and get a taste of the film festival we put on here. And if you'd like to watch the wonderful movie about a school bus renovation project we couldn't include in the Prezi, you can watch it here. It's only eight minutes long and it is awesome.

So, do you Prezi? If you do, you can post a link in my comments so I (and the millions who read my blog) can check it out.

(And as you may have noticed, I'm thinking that some work-y stuff mixed into the family stuff may make NaBloPoMo less stressful. Deal with it.)

Mojave Preserve Updates

Part of Michael's job is to create/edit/write for/design the park newspaper twice a year. His third issue came out earlier this spring and it is a bit of a Glore-fest. I (was) volunteered to write an article about the wildflower season that made the first page. I also contributed one of the photos. Michael was the featured ranger for their series about the rangers' favorite places (and got me to take the accompanying picture of him). And, of course, Michael's hand was behind many other features in the paper as well. You can read all about it here.

Many of you may have already watched Michael's interview on YouTube. He got tired of waiting for me to post a link here, so sent out a mass email. But if you've missed my fast-talking husband's YouTube debut, you can check it out here.

More vacation photos will be forthcoming.