Monthly Archives: February 2018

(my signed letter by Colville) Thomson, MacDonald, and Harris were the first great artists of the 20th century, but because they focused on landscapes exclusively, they lacked the range and variety of Alex Colville’s work. Colville subtly and deeply affected … Continue reading →

in April at the Edmonton Poets Festival. Meantime (Magnum) OPUS getting a good reception as I suspected it might. I will feature some of its poems in entries to come…

the Edmonton Oilers. They have more hockey smarts, play as units, defend well, skate fast, and have more energy, will, and commitment than the fat cat NHL club. It would be interesting to put up either team against the Oilers … Continue reading →

is just another selfie-style photo opportunity to curry favor with East Canadian Indians to get their votes in the next election and to diminish whatever potential impact the NDP leader might have had on that result down the road. Elsewhere, … Continue reading →

“Life is a verb, not a noun.” –Charlotte Perkins Gilman “Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.” –Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. “Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.” –Charles M. Schulz … Continue reading →

“Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is this freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.” –Dave Brubeck “Playing “bop” is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.” –Duke Ellington

(the 1931 dust jacket done by Vanessa Stephen, Virginia’s painter-sister) The first thing to be said about this unique ‘novel’, is that it can’t be read as a traditional narrative; it is more post-modern than anything else she ever wrote. … Continue reading →

(the greatest tenor saxophonist Stan Getz with the greatest pianist Kenny Barron; they were the top jazz duo of all time) (the greatest classical composer; there is only one Beethoven; no one else who was deaf ever wrote such sublime … Continue reading →