Monthly Archives: January 2022

Words and music did not come into sharper focus for me till I started listening to top 40 radio in grade 5 (1959) and started paying attention to song lyrics. The lyrics of folk songs and folk songs from 1964-1972 … Continue reading →

(even the deer up here are frozen, not moving) A remote Arctic outpost like Ice Station Zebra. It does seem on many days that we have 8 months of winter and 4 of summer. We really do kid ourselves, especially … Continue reading →

the first year he was elected and it continued their Remembrance Day ceremony coverage as he walked away from the site into the crowd taking shameless selfies with crowd members. This was presented as a significant event which eclipsed the … Continue reading →

Based on Orwell’s book, this is the only cartoon ever made about the beginnings of political consciousness and the corrupt ways of power. The animal fable is quite suitable for junior-high-age audiences (12-15) at a time when kids are becoming … Continue reading →

They have long worn out their welcome throwing beer cans at the media, defacing Terry Fox’s stature (a bridge too far), parking on the war memorial, jumping on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, wearing yellow stars, waving confederate flags, … Continue reading →

First out of the gate: Neil Young, then Joni Mitchell.2 Canadian greats with moral fibre/integrity, lacking in so many others. Astute Canadian prairie stock (Winnipeg, Saskatoon).

Quite a nice surprise of 60 years of uncollected Dylan. (Cassette issued in 1991; CD in 2017.) CD 1 anchored in his folky protest days: 1961-63. CD 2 covers Another Side of Bob Dylan up to his comeback Blood on … Continue reading →

The return of a long-forgotten jazz legend who played by ear, seldom looking at his keyboard, who never learned to read music: the once-popular pianist Erroll Garner. His most famous 1955 album remastered 60 years later: now on 3 CDs, … Continue reading →

Something like 90% of Canadian truckers are already vaccinated. They like having work/getting paid. Truckers entering the States can’t get in w/o being vaccinated.So already this ‘issue’ is dead in the water. There are definitely some wanna-be GOPers that want … Continue reading →

just as the truckers convoy gets to Ottawa. A familiar escape-from-responsibility and confrontation tactic he’s used many times.