tony clifton, hail to the chief
Trump, ending the presidency with him and Melania walking off into an airplane while blasting YMCA by the Village People threw me at first but now I get it, maybe […]
smile excursion
I knew a guy who studied South Indian dance who told me that smiling was part of the training, as in one was supposed to smile was dancing and that […]
master memories
Another thing I love about The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov is that there’s music playing throughout the book that the characters are noticing and questioning or haunted or […]
the paintings of Ray Baillargeon
The first days after I moved to Toronto, my brother Ronnie and Ray made me feel welcome by marching me up and down Beverly street and the Art Gallery of […]
the keith jarrett birds
While walking today, I came upon a section of the path where a red headed bird, which at first I thought a woodpecker, was busy scrounging the surface of a […]
sympathy for the devil
I am reading so many things for school it doesn’t make sense to try fitting in something unrelated for pleasure but what a pleasure it is to start The Master […]
spirit time has come
Sometime around 1995 I was scoring the show Twitch City for CBC made by Don McKellar and Bruce MacDonald. It was only 13 episodes which was too bad because it […]
position of dealing
found out fellow students in one of my last classes, unhappy with their mark, complained and got their mark raised. what then should one do if willing to accept their […]
exit stage right
In my dream last night, an older woman I know, was infirm in an old folks home, bedridden and I was seeing her for what we both knew would be […]
soy pick
ran into a friend who is also doing a phd, he has many similar experiences on being an older student and whats peculiar about fellow students or teachers who embrace […]