General Happening

The scheduled art show was canceled because the artist had some works being printed and they were delayed and yada yada Jen came to the rescue which was nice. Her […]

Joyce Carol Oates blows me away. So did the guy doing the light show at José Contreras’s show at the Tranzac last night using all those old lighting contraptions I […]

Working away at my French. I still am horrible but at least can say I am horrible in more ways than ever. There is this thing about French that is […]

The album presentation last week was She’s So Unusual by Cyndi Lauper. I found myself drifting off into memories of Mimi and her restaurant on Bathurst. Cyndi Lauper’s energy reminded […]

Teaching a new course in the fall about censorship. These are some of the first thoughts about films and books I am thinking about using: Lenny, Mocking Socrates, Planet of […]

Taking care of my mother-in-law’s cat for the month while she is in France. She erratically howls in the night, wanting something but I don’t know what it is. She […]

Alone in a room, the target is entered differently than when there is an audience present even just one person and the experience changes. Something about the energy of others, […]

Sure are a lot of stand-offs since returning to academia, especially the PhD which commenced in 2020. After two weeks into the first mandatory research course, everyone in my class […]

Losing close friends is always hard but at the same time death is the great reminder to enjoy one’s impermanence. I have a friend who is about 80ish and at […]

The new song is about the space where you know something but to say it out loud will have ramifications one does not necessarily want to be responsible for. The […]