Scabbers is actually a pitiful man hiding out in the body of a rat. Iris Chase knows more about the Blind Assassin than all the admirers of Laura Chase. After […]

There was a guy who hung with the bunchofuckingoofs who did security for Handsome Ned at Ned’s Toronto Island picnic. Blue Rodeo played the first year, maybe it was 1986, […]

Can’t tell what is my favourite part in R.Murray Shafer’s autobiography. It’s between John Cage giving a Lecture on Nothing, then shuffling a deck of cards in response to every […]

Some of the unexpected things I learned about reading R. Murray Shafer’s autobiography. He kept journals all his life, he’s an interesting visual artist, he writes about his lovers and […]

Went to York University to check out a couple books from their library, adding new colours to my PhD research. Paul Klee’s The Thinking Eye and Robin James’s book on […]

i had a friend who had a tattoo of an ant on his arm. i think he liked being reminded to work and not complain. the borg always seemed modelled […]

I knew some improvisors in a band and one of them very much disliked another. It was awkward because I liked both of their talents quite a lot. I felt […]

The student asked the old improvisor how he teaches improvising and he didn’t answer, so they asked again and the teacher said they heard them the first time.

It’s surprising when songwriting students write reflection papers from unexpected angles, especially about songs I know well. Last year, one student wrote up Leonard Cohen’s Everybody Knows and said it […]

In some lectures people try to explain the difference between a two dimensional universe vs. a three dimensional one but using the example of a shadow cast by a three […]