Monthly Archives: November 2018

A free annual ATCO furnace inspection you can phone and make an appt. for. Keeps you updated on any potential problems. Good time to do? Spring or summer.

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May Is Getting Married

(Edison’s phonograph for playing recorded music was one of the 40 most useful, indispensable, beneficial technologies) Medicine -birth control -autopsies -cancer radiation -artificial insulin -penicillin and antibiotics -vaccines -aspirin -Prozac -artificial heart and other organs -syringes -band-aids and bandages Communications … Continue reading →

for any playgoer who wants to see a significant, serious, relevant play of significant conflicts and ideas as opposed to the empty-headed Broadway show ‘fluff’ prevalent in our declining modern theatres these days. This is one of Miller’s best, which … Continue reading →

(Our animal friends) What kind of human-‘worse than animals’ leave a dog in a garbage bag at a Costco parking lot to freeze to death? (Probably the same kind that abandoned the bins of cats to die recently.) I have … Continue reading →

(a rare folk-rock  performance with students and girl singer of Dylan songs at McNally in the ’70s) (‘Fudgeing it’ with Fudge, my ’90s teacher trio, in the Scona Room at a packed noon-hour concert in the ’90s) …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. continues to … Continue reading →

(the nifty 2 disc Criterion version of, arguably, Roeg’s best film) My favorite Roeg is the classic Don’t Look Now, based on a Daphne du Maurier novel, starring Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland. A beautiful dark suspenseful film built on mystery … Continue reading →

History Channel used to do actual programming squarely about history, but has lost its original purpose and mandate for some time now. This likely reflects a corporate decision to survive by playing to lowbrow, ‘redneck’ instincts and passions reflected in shows like … Continue reading →

has a mind of its own. (E.g., when Apple e-mail starts substituting unintended words and spellings or when line spacings cannot be redone.) It sometimes/often doesn’t automatically line up with human intents and purposes. And yes, technology can be a … Continue reading →

(cover by John Eyre, 1900 E.P. Dutton ed.) Author of “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”, once considered the best-known poem in the English language. Took Gray 9 years to write. General Wolfe who won Quebec from the French in … Continue reading →