A: when you solo are you thinking? B: no, i’m listening. A: you’re only listening? B: i take it back. i’m thinking and listening. A: like conversation? B: precisely. A: […]

doing research for a book idea for school. looking at a disturbed lawyer I knew in another lifetime and how these current studies in improvisation for the PhD business, intersect […]

looked up stanley cowell online a couple times and wrote him to thank him for the lesson when i was 14 and he came through winnipeg with percy heath and […]

passed another racoon with distemper. that’s three of four of them over the last two months. racoons ordinarily flee people or if they do get close it isn’t because they […]

there was a dump of snow two weeks ago. meaning, i went tobogganing. lithuania park with zillions of kids squealing down slopes trying to avoid crashing into the many no […]

I met Nick Lowe by chance in an arena at a concert. He was leaving but I couldn’t help telling him he was who he was and he agreed. I […]

We used to count steamboats when playing football, like the duration for you to speak the word “steamboat” was the way to measure how long the person with the football […]

on roncesvalles there’s a cafe that also bakes bread and I get sourdough there sometimes and there’s a tall guy with a red beard often playing music that I recognize […]

First job post paper routes, was sandwich making at the small lunch counter inside the Osbourne street waterbed store, Floating Ecstasy. Dino’s Deli was named after the owner of these […]

I stood in line a long time, the show meant a lot. There were two girls before me who had waited longer and one of them, the one with the […]