While driving back I started listening on random to Spotify and Hot Chocolate’s I Believe in Miracles came on. I never noticed the string machine but this time I realized […]

I liked Jen’s advice after the Hugh’s room show. She felt like it would be a better set if the end included something emotionally different than what I had been […]

I wrote a song years ago, or perhaps it was yesterday, time has that dissolving quality when you look back too long, of the Conservative Party taking their majority in […]

It is (or was) Robin Kuretsky’s birthday, thirty-first of the month, a number mirrored in my own thirteenth, like two cards from a fortune deck flipped in opposite hands. Inversions, […]

She had notebooks full of songs. She played open mics, got polite claps, and went home with compliments that felt like sugar packets, sweet but unsatisfying. One night, after a […]

My daughter is a fan of the song by the La’s There She Goes. But I misheard it as Here She Comes which infuriates her. Naturally, I am incentivized to […]

I like the way Randy Newman’s 1972 song aged:the Christians and the Jew,were having a jamboree,The Buddhists and the Hindusjoined on satellite TV,picked their four greatest priestsand they began to […]

There is a guy who started attending the open stage who plays well enough but I had not really tuned into his writing until last night when he played a […]