With so many students it is very difficult to continue my PhD but I push on. I sent some material to three readers to check my objectivity because I’m losing […]

I wrote an angry letter to a new student. I never planned to send it just wanted to let out my pissed off feelings. Then I asked CHAT GPT to […]

I am playing a show in Hamilton next month. At Glen Marshall’s recording studio space concert space. A first show ever out of town for my own songs, maybe 1989, […]

Made a dosa. Almost game changing. I did make it successfully but is there a way to use cast iron and no oil and no stick? (insert The Knaack vocal […]

A student in class said it’s possible that death also is life. They all complained that makes no sense, death is the absence of life. Yes, I know he said […]

One of the survey questions I received from the online class of 80 students was how do I get my music to big shots? A great question that makes me […]

I hear a message on the overhead speakers when I ride the subway of the Toronto Transit Commission to stay off the tracks or face a $5000 punishment. I do […]

There are baking tricks, driving tricks, tax tricks, surgery tricks, fishing tricks, covering the presidential debate tricks. No end to the tricks in life for those who see it. Life […]

I played the Jazz festival Colloquium in Guelph under the title improvising melodicism. The more I thought about what I got myself into, the more I realized I couldn’t explain […]

I have an assignment in class after the students view Pussy Riot and Fela Kuti to consider what songs they could write about here and now in Canada that would […]