Monthly Archives: December 2021

presented by our remarkable IT guy J-Man who also services and set up both long-running blogs. He also fixed the technology for transferring my ’72 Legacy Recordings to computer files and CDs, helping me to complete my major 2021 musical … Continue reading →

tobogganing on an Ottawa hill.

Currently, they are living with frostbite, hypothermia, and Omicron.Their situations have been exacerbated by the pandemic and winter deep freeze.Provincial and city governments should be all over this crisis.(Not in AB though, where porking-up Kenney has also pulled the plug … Continue reading →

(inspired by Glenn Gould’s The Idea of North) ……………………………………………………………………… (We have administered these vast territories of North in an almost continuing state of mind…) High latitudevast flatness of poleswind a whitewashbreathing lungsstone-cold (I have an enormous compulsion to look upon … Continue reading →

Winter City? Frozen North? (fact)Jack London’s “To Build a Fire”or Sam McGee incarnate.Too bloody cold for rats.Snow blown across Xmas potholes.Someone else’s bad dreamrammed down a senior’s throatlike feckless mayors, windrowsor snow-covered bike-lanes.City of a dead downtownawaiting invisible people.Awaiting the … Continue reading →

“As far as the world is concerned, the most important thing is to say to yourself, “This really doesn’t matter. I think there are very few things that really matter, and those are to do with protecting your loved ones … Continue reading →

J.T. and The Gift of Music

A Sherlock Holmes watch for Christmas. Who’da thunk?

Eating my umpteenth Asian orange on the holiday season. What a treat since the 1950s! That was one item at Christmas my poor family looked forward to–getting a wooden crate (then) of wrapped Japanese oranges–the ‘zipper orange’ as we used … Continue reading →

Desmond Tutu. Larger-than-life South African social activist to his own country and the world. A true giant who made life so much better and happier for multitudes.