Monthly Archives: March 2019

started telling me how she was missing church in order to make coffee. Brought to mind the many Sundays I experienced in the 1950s and early ’60s back in Winnipeg when not much was shakin’ on Sundays. Many people then … Continue reading →

The Nobel Prize winning poet earned many fans back in the folk era which was ending about 1966-67. There were, of course, all the famous early songs like “Blowin’ in the Wind”and “The Times They Are-A-Changing”. Many of those songs … Continue reading →

He had not bothered to examine himself, to ask or know. He lived separate from all and practised mammon and thrift to the exclusion of all else. This wasn’t a matter of soul and had you asked if he had … Continue reading →

A significant black American prof who concisely and accurately/exactly sums up the current fear and racial hate as an epidemic and “the undertow” of the fear and racial hate politics and behaviours he refers to as “the continuum”, particularly in … Continue reading →

Quaint reference to Trump’s America.

A salt-of-the-earth character working at the bottle depot I frequent regularly. Samir is typical of the working-class people I still run into and become acquainted quickly and easily with. He is A Real Person, writ large, supporting his come-to-Canada family, … Continue reading →

Reading and Literature = Ideas, Consciousness, Serious Literacy, Perspective, The Educated Imagination, Richness, and Depth

But back in the ’50s and ’60s glory days of Hollywood movies, composers were like gods (Ernest Gold, Elmer Bernstein, Bernard Herrmann, Jerry Goldsmith) whose music and themes could help make films great. To wit, Miklos Rozsa, who is best … Continue reading →

This a typical ‘cool’ movie book, which one could buy in stores in the ’50s and ’60s. They were done to promote big/important movies. They contained many color photos, interviews, and notes on the plot, actors, sets, and making of … Continue reading →

with stiffer thumbs and fingers: a hand-squeeze jar/bottle top opener. Saves injuries and strain. A nice and easy one with different size openers is the one pictured here from Avon.