THREADS :
A Facebook Exchange
Considered as a Script by Beckett

VIDEONOTES: ‘A Facebook Exchange′ presented by THIRD EYE CABARET, a production of the Web Theater of WestVirginiaVille.com.
SOUNDTRACK: “West Virginia Wakes Up” by Treehouse Recordings, an excerpt from a 30-minute recording of the sound of birdsong in the deep West Virginia woods as dawn returned one day.

It was a decades-long tradition in my family – the youngest among us who could walk would deliver the porcelain baby Jesus on Christmas Eve to a porcelain bed of straw in the Christmas creche in our house. It was always a sacred moment for my mother, a continuity, a handing-down of tradition. My mother and father are long gone, but the tradition has continued in the family. So, it was that my older brother brought the porcelain manger figures to our large holiday family gathering to re-enact the ritual. But wait! Baby Jesus had accidentally been left behind. What to do? What to do? Suddenly, there was a woof-woof from one of the many schnausers my brother and his wife have raised through the years. Hmmm ….

I created this video for an event honoring the Winter Solstice, called The Solstice Ball. Consider it my unconventional seasonal greetings to you, a bit of meditative, ruminative imagery and music, titled “Light Show,” featuring a soundtrack by The Silent Gondoliers. May your year end well, and the new year contain much harmony.

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Here’s a quick take video slideshow by your faithful citizen of WestVirginiaVille, standing amid the huddled, laughing masses at the Rally to Restore Sanity held today in Washington, D.C., hosted by the inimitable Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.

Below are still photos of some of the many clever signs. Feel free to click them up large and embed them on your own site and share them around, with the caveat that you please include the following line (or even better as a live link back to http://westvirginiaville.com): Photo courtesy of WestVirginiaVille.com

WestVirginiaVille.com photo ~ 2010

The Hoopies were out in force at Culturefest 2010, atop a mountain in southern West Virginia.

Playing hoops at Culturefest ~ september 2010 ~ douglas imbrrogno