My current guilty pleasure are i) border patrol videos, ii) playing the thing in G, iii) avoiding prep time for my next class, iv) Sam Kinison memes. Not sure how […]

I watched a young woman on X explain her views on Israel and Gaza. She reminded me of myself and the wild bronco of political thought I have tried straddling […]

The poetry reading was interesting. I read from my book. Charlie remembers our first conversation from 35 years ago about W.P. Kinsella. Impressive memory. He even remembers we were not […]

Reading Glenn Loury’s memoir. Blows me away. I half hoped when I entered graduate school to encounter people in this music space that would challenge my ideas but more often […]

Transferring Un Village Francais for a friend following our conversation a week ago about WW2 stories. I liked this series so much, supplied me so many stories and details. More […]

Applied for a full time position at Seneca. Hope I get it. Solve a lot of problems to get a full time salary though you never know when Drake might […]

The album presentation this week is OK Computer by Radiohead. The students doing it do not seem typical fans of that record. Should be fun. I used to avoid this […]

I like staying up all night writing. I like trying to stretch better. Working on the pancake. Will I ever get it? Working on arpeggios too. Will I ever?

I heard a young woman two weeks ago at the open stage. She was on fire. It was terrific. I offered to meet and discuss a recording. The songs are […]

The book is coming along. Nose to the grindstone. It is just like practising new things on piano or any instrument or else it is the other way around, which […]