Amazing how wrong I can be about the future, but perhaps it is a hopeful thing, when you usually think we just a lost ship in the universe, fowling the […]

Spoiler alert. In the movie American Beauty, homophobic army guy makes a pass at straight neighbour, is rebuffed. Then filled with shame he murders the man who was the object […]

>Bob I’m playing with musicians I have a negative >personal relationship with. Do you think continuing to play >together is a good idea or not? The music is really good. […]

If only it passed the kindergarten lunch test. Collard and rice paper rolls with tempeh, grated beet, carrot, some garlic and ginger, feeling proud. Some people sent me venom when […]

Lived with a dog that used to howl if I played a certain note on the harmonica. Like pressing a start button on his brain. Felt the same way about […]

The Royal Cinema in Toronto soon is screening some P.T. Anderson films, I noticed a film I missed called Hard Eight and looked at the trailer. Damn is film life […]

Over time as I hear my own habits, if I’m going left then I want to go right. I want to not recognize myself by the end of it and […]

Favourite expression I taught to a child “close but no cigar”. She knows it means almost not quite – but cigar remains a mystery word, perhaps one day she’ll understand […]

At the fridge magnet workshop I was bored. The leader cut out slogans in advance to glue onto our awkwardly painted pieces of cardboard. Listening to Gord Downie’s last record. […]

There are so many good things online allover but radio stations are not designed for free thinking adventurous music lovers. Amazing how stale radio music mostly is. Whoever selects what […]