I was listening to people discussing power and hierarchy. This is the wallpaper of university interiors. I hear this music often. Sometimes I hum along and other times I don’t […]

Odd to watch the Liberal party elect Mark Carney. Not a lot of votes. Most interesting was the disinclination towards non government media interviews, aka people journalists all over the […]

I wrote three songs over the years about Leonard Peltier’s situation wasting away in prison when it seemed from the accounts I studied, his motives were helping elders at Pine […]

At the dentist office accompanying my mother-in-law for a cleaning. They told me their wifi password is brushandfloss. Trump probably changed the White House wifi to somuchwinning. Bet abbey Road […]

In the class discussions posted online a few students address the articles we recently reviewed which showed disproportionate amounts of male artists featured in music festivals. Most of the students […]

Meeting w my supervisor went well. They seem really into my PhD. Is this a set up? Can I actually make sense out of improvisation in a written context, in […]

I love everything Linda Ronstadt does/ did, but when I was young I didn’t tune into the creativity of her work. When Elvis Costello was mean to her I saw […]

We go to a restaurant and the server brings us a loaf of bread before the meal and my daughter tries to cut it and one side sticks up in […]

Over the speakers at the airport I heard them playing Clampdown by The Clash and I thought how amazing that whatever starts out rebellious or shocking is, in the fullness […]

Muhammed, who sells me phones [or fixes them], has a health issue and it makes his left hand shake. Often when he tries to configure something he needs me to […]