I was trying to find somewhere to write. My house was too noisy with renovations happening next door. Library closed. Tim Horton’s seemed the only place but can I really […]

The jazz course started with Fly Me To The Moon and Autumn Leaves. Now onto I’m in The Mood for Love and Falling in Love with Love. It is like […]

I am hired again to teach two classes this September at Seneca and one at Western in London. I also had a recent interview to work at Ryerson. I was […]

I received an invitation to an academic seminar on the ethical challenges of AI in music production. Ethical? Who is positioned authoritatively to gate-keep the correct use of technology. Will […]

I had a job when I was very young being a projectionist at the University of Winnipeg. I rolled the 16 mm projectors into various classes and threaded the films […]

In the class many students talk about the unique victimization of their religion, their gender identity, their skin colour, their hair or their body size. I can think of examples […]

My wife started to sing psycho killer que-ce-que-c’est and then my 12 year old daughter answered fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa and I said how […]

I was listening to a twenty years ago recording of Noam Chomsky talking about power and he was making a point about how the rich dominate the poor. At first […]

Listening to that old Joan Armatrading record. One of her firsts just called Joan Armatrading. The one with Love and Affection, “like a moth with no flame to persuade me”. […]