Finished Margaret Atwood’s The Heart Goes Last and as usual the ending was fantastic. She is so good. I want to write her fan mail and maybe I will. The […]

In his home country Bryan Adams is considered a wise and exotic old rock musician. There is an aspect of my lyric course where each student has to eventually share […]

I like both Noam Chomsky and Thomas Sowell. They are my favourite Left wing and Right wing thinkers/ talkers. I see the perspectives of both and wonder if the course […]

The colloquium went well at the Tranzac today. It pays off to know what one is getting into before hand. Glad to have Rebecca Campbell read and John Oswald respond […]

There is a tall skinny student in my class who bears a striking resemblance to Dallas Good. He never heard of him or them. A few weeks ago he was […]

The latest assignment is writing about the 70s rock band Fanny. Writing about their lyrics and about aspects of payola in the music business. One student’s submission says there never […]

A long wet chest cough. maybe bronchitis. i was once told i have asthma and they gave me a puffer, it was 15 years ago. I only tried it a […]

Reading Margaret Atwood’s book The Heart Goes Last. I am shocked. I love her work but I never expected her to write about so much sex and cussing. Not that […]

I read about shadows realizing they are shadows. Gives me much pause. If thought is cellular activity, then what we call I is not a thing but a process. What […]

My favourite part of the Ahmet Ertegun biography I read on the airplane home was David Geffen explaining Ertegun’s reply when young Geffen asked him how do you make a […]