Listening to the interview on Bob Lefsetz’s podcast with Narada Michael Walden. My favourite parts were the way he talked about gaining entry into the world of John Mclaughlin and […]

After I read that Melanie died I thought about how I used to hear that roller skate song when I was a kid. I put it on. It has some […]

A student told the class today about that time everyone was posting baby videos about Adele’s song. They nodded like old timers remembering something. I was like huh? She said […]

Finished Heartbreak by Nora Ephron. Nice ending Nora. I won’t be able to think of Carl the same way again. Student recently had that age old argument about the art […]

Almost finished marking the papers and then another 80 or so will be waiting for me to start all over. But I’m not in jail or being tortured or living […]

Listening to the renovations next door, the power tools, the hammering, pretending it is music or maybe I’m not pretending. Listening for what I expect to hear again, the recurring […]

Last year discussions around AI writing essays became common in the places I teach. It inclined me to try dreaming up questions that make it harder for AI to answer […]

Trying to better fake my jazz identity. Taking folkier songs and attempting to put different clothes on them. In certain sections it fits nicely but in others it is clumsy […]

My daughter watching Gilmore Girls and I tell her the woman singing the theme song has other music she should hear. She doesn’t want to. I insist please can I […]

Smoke alarm went off but there are no fires here. It must be dust. It is not the battery, it is not CO2. Bought some oranges advertised not as blood […]