Friday, May 18, 2012

Boss!... Boss!... The Plane... the Plane...

By rights this post should be something technical about air transport to and from Halifax, but in fact the evocation of Hervé Villechaize's famous opening line from Fantasy Island is meant to introduce a RIDDLE:

When is a Tattoo not a Tattoo?


The answer is "When it's the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo, which just so happens also, for inscrutable reasons of its own, to have scheduled itself to coincide with the HaliCallahanicon of 2012...


What, you may ask, is the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo?  "I'm glad you asked!" enthuses the late and much lamented Pernicious the Musquodoboit Harbour Farm Cat's faithful amanuensis and general factotum.  "To quote (well, to paraphrase, actually) an excerpt from the official website

'The Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo is a week-long event held every year in Nova Scotia, and the World's Largest Annual Indoor Spectacle.  The two-and-a-half hour family show is fast-paced – every scene only lasts about 3-6 minutes, so there is always something new to see and experience. Looking for a taste of true Nova Scotia? There are bagpipes, highland dancers, la culture de l’acadie and military traditions.

Hoping for something more modern? The Tattoo also features innovative acrobatic acts, modern music, contemporary dancing, trampoline routines and cutting-edge videos.  Ticket prices range from CAN$29.50 to CAN$72.00, and should be purchased well in advance.

There are also workshops and festival events!  The workshops and events are free!'

"Talk about your random coincidences..." purrs the late and much-lamented Pernicious the Musquodoboit Harbour Farm Cat from his usual perch astride the pile of ham sandwiches comprising the Free Lunch (tm) at Callahan's Crosstime Saloon, meanwhile surreptitiously using a remote-controlled pair of his North Carolina Prosthetic Index Fingers (tm) to add his signature to yet another brief note recalling yet another hit squad he had been forced, very reluctantly, to dispatch in the general direction of the Metro Centre in downtown Halifax to -er- purr-suade the management of a certain World's Largest Annual Indoor Spectacle  that scheduling this event to coincide with the HaliCallahanicon of 2012  was in everybody's best interests...

2 comments:

  1. Oh wow! I've never been to a Tattoo, and this sounds amazing. Between this, the museum exhibit, and just being in Halifax period, plus all the wonderful people, this is going to be a fantastic event. :)

    Are you planning to put a call out for minions (or mini-onions as Dust Puppy from the comic User Friendly put it)at some point?

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    1. I expect a call for both mignons (filet and otherwise) and mignonettes, too, will be forthcoming in due course...

      While it is advisable to order Tattoo tickets in advance, there is still ample time to do that. Might I ask that folks interested in going to a Tattoo performance be in touch with one another about dates and times -- in case a group outing would be desirable? Many thanks!

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