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Joni Mitchell - The Fiddle and the Drum

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · Jun 11

"And so once again/ Oh, America, my friend/ And so once again you are fighting us all/ And when we ask you why/ You raise your sticks and cry and we fall/ Oh, my friend, how did you come/ To trade the fiddle for the drum?" Oh, America, your friends up here are grieving, too youtu.be/u6z79WMOPtk?...

YouTube video by Joni Mitchell

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · Jun 8

My fella, @mauricevellekoop.bsky.social, won Best Book @dougwrightawards.bsky.social. A wonderful evening of art, history, heart and silliness. Captain Canuck was there, along with creator Richard Comely who was inducted into the Giants of the North. Congrats all. And Lou Skuce!!

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · May 6

A must read. Pick it up and you will be enchanted. #booksky #memoir #graphicnovel
(Of course, I am biased—that’s me depicted at left.)

Maurice Vellekoop @mauricevellekoop.bsky.social · May 6

I’m thrilled to share that my graphic memoir ‘I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together’ has been shortlisted for the Trillium Book Awards! As if that weren’t enough, I’m also up for a Doug Wright Award!! Big congratulations to all the other nominees, winners for both announced in June!

Ruth Buzzi singing Lady Bird

Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · May 3

Genius. #ruthbuzzi #crazybird

YouTube video by Matt Tucci

Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · May 1

Happy May Day. #film #wickerman

The 10 Commandments in 2 minutes

Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · May 1

Very excited to see this project finally come to fruition... and I do mean fruit-ition. Congrats @melwoods.me @danielmacivor.ca and @xtramagazine.com

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · Apr 18

Gearing up for The 10 Commandments! #biblicalporn #moses #film

YouTube video by Michael R. Barrick (Atratus)

Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · Apr 17

A film that takes place where your from.

Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · Apr 15

Vintage sarong, probably Indonesian, circa 1995. #batiktuesday #immigration #dei #syncretism

Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · Apr 12

Wishing you —and I mean you — a very happy National Liquorice Day.
It takes allsorts.
#drag #lgbtq #liquorice #allsorts

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · Apr 8

#batiktuesday Batik sarong bought in Singapore in the early 1990s. #dei #syncretism #immigration #canada

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · Apr 6

Happy Tartan Day from the Winnipeg Centennial Maple Leaf Choir (1976 edition)… in our fetching Maple Leaf tartan uniforms. I am easy to spot because my head is twice as large as anyone else’s… and I am 1 of only 3 boys left in this “mixed” choir.

Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · Apr 1

Vintage ADRM Batik sarong, Indonesia, circa 1995 (label visible). #batiktuesday #syncretism #dei #canada #indonesia

Lord Ronald Gower (1845-1916): the social life of a queer MP at the time of the Second Reform Act

Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · Mar 27

An affair with the police commissioner's son whom he met at the India Office Ball in celebration of Ottoman Sultan Abdulaziz's visit in 1867? I'm in. #lgbtq #history #unitedkingdom

Victorian Commons @victoriancommons.bsky.social · Mar 27

For #WorldTheatreDay we are sharing our colleague @martinspychal.bsky.social's research on Lord Ronald Gower, MP for Sutherland and a keen frequenter of London's theatres. victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2020/10/21/l...

In the second of his blog series on Lord Ronald Gower (1845-1916), Dr Martin Spychal explores Gower’s London social life during his first year in Parliament, including a brief summer romance with t…

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · Mar 25

Another Karyawan “genuine Malaysian batik” shirt (circa 1990), this one, a beautifully floaty chiffon silk. #batiktuesday #singapore #malaysia #dei #syncretism

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · Mar 20

Cherished possession... a pen from the Liberace Museum in Las Vegas, which closed in 2010. #LGBTQ #coolstuff

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · Mar 18

#batiktuesday Another swatch from a vintage hand-me-down shirt circa 1970. #singapore #immigation #syncretism #dei

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · Mar 17

Congratulations all around. As a former colleague of Tre'vell's, I know they'll bring passion, intelligence and style to the job... all so necessary in these ugly times.

Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · Mar 17

My mother's birthday was on St Patrick's Day, so she liked to wear a Kiss Me I'm Irish button. Invariably, people would look at this short brown woman in green and ask, "You're Irish?" She would ALWAYS reply, "I'm Irish coffee!" Later she took to wearing a button roughly doctored like this... 🇮🇪🇸🇬🇨🇦

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Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · Mar 15

From each according to their ability…

Gordon Bowness @gordonbowness.bsky.social · Mar 14

And the Canadian national anthem 🇨🇦