Bringing Creativity and Intelligence Together

Last week I took a pilgrimage to the Edmonton Fringe Festival and watched 13 plays over 4 days.   Overhead, the haze from the forest fires in British Columbia cast a pall on the weather — that and the rain.

Fortunately, we had decided against taking our bikes in favor of taking the Edmonton Trolley from Jasper Avenue to the Fringe Grounds.   The trolley with the most character was the Melbourne Trolley.  It is also where we met Gregor the beetle. (more about that later)  Also, The Fringe Festival had made a deal with Edmonton Transit to offer free rides from the grounds every day after 6 pm.

The Edmonton Fringe Festival is the largest Fringe festival in North America and offers hundreds of plays from all over the world.  These plays are  usually composed of one or two actors with a minimal set and last between an hour and an hour and a half.

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Rick Mercer has to be one of the ballsiest Canadians I have ever met.

Between his ankle biting work on ‘Talking to Americans’ to the antics he gets up to with Canadian politicians, it is difficult to know if there’s anything in this world the Rick is afraid of.

This book was a fascinating read.  In doing this review, I surfed around the internet to see if there were any reviews of it.  Sadly, there were no in depth discussions of the book anywhere.  Many sites just cut and pasted from author’s  posting on Amazon.com.  So I feel pretty smug about being one of the first in the world to read this book and communicate my impressions of it.  It’s a real rush to be ‘first’ in anything online.

The reason this book was chosen is because many of my clients and contemporaries depend upon, to a greater or lesser extent, the production, sale, refining and marketing of oil and gas.  And even while some of them may not be directly involved in the oil and gas industry, many of them have oil and gas companies as clients.

Here we go!

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