Favourite part of the Youtube interview with the ex North Korean spy was when they discussed how broke he is in his current life based in South Korea. The interviewer […]

The other night I raced downtown to catch the last set of Mark Hundevad’s Cecil Taylor tribute. Very intense. Mark wouldn’t do anything less. Who better to honour the supreme […]

Jennifer Haigh.I read a book of her short stories and her latest novel Mercy Street. She is pretty amazing. I interviewed her for the Improv Notes journal. Bob:Have you any […]

Afternoon, streetcar in Toronto. Man gets on carrying a guitar case. Finds a seat next to a woman who has too many bags on the ground and on her lap. […]

Last class yesterday. Students got me a card and a chocolate bar. They even bought some candy for my daughter. Nice people. There was nothing due for the last class […]

Last night’s dream. I was heading North in Ontario to meet a couple friends and their daughter who is a good friend of my daughter. They had not yet left […]

There are people you meet when you tour, sometimes they reach out to you first, Jamie was like that. He wrote me from the Sunshine Coast wondering if I would […]

oppressors/ non binary/ music industry/ cis men/ police checks/ opportunity/ leadership roles/ youth/ agency/ pedagogy lab/ safe environment/ they talk about john coltrane but not alice/ a lot of voices […]

While visiting my mother, I heard someone playing gayly on the grand piano in the dining room. I walked over it was an older woman good at stride piano. I […]

I wrote a song years ago called Purple City. It started off as a type of letter to an old friend and soon became sentimental and then I became annoyed. […]