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 […]

Wrote a new song about taking the all night Keele street bus which is not what the song is actually about. A contest between me and the world, whether the […]

I heard Norm Macdonald’s orange cock joke. I definitely need a Norm Macdonald t-shirt adding to the clothes that make me smile. The deaths of people like Norm Macdonald and […]

I lose a lot of time to administration, to locating correct forms and correctly filling out applications or grades or surveys. It is a little bit fascinating how it eats […]

Almost a fight in the songwriting class when one student found Trump funny re: Canada becoming 51st state and others offended by student who found it funny because it isn’t […]

There’s a song Dave Davies wrote on the Kinks Lola record that I love called Strangers. It’s in five. It is the most awesome five in the world because it’s […]