Monthly Archives: March 2022

“Life is not a series of gig-lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.” “There is a coherence in things, a stability; something…is immune from change, and … Continue reading →

(Reliving our Basement Rock days back in the early ’80s while recording in Wayne’s basement studio, Calgary. Note his vintage Ludwig drums. Wayne became Mr. Computer Guy for the City of Calgary.) (1966-67/grades 11-12 Silver Heights Collegiate lads reunited in … Continue reading →

out here in Alberta is that that the Conservatives and UCP have already slashed the AB grid way back which is why we’ve been having more outages the last few years. What will happen will be more outages in more … Continue reading →

(Chris Harman, my singing partner in high school and university, 1966-1970. Chris, second from right sang harmony. For the last 3-4 decades, he has been working as a prominent, well-respected women’s doctor in Baltimore, home of Edgar Allan Poe.)

(Montag reading from Dickens’ David Copperfield) “There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. I had endeavoured to adapt Dora to myself and found it impracticable. It remained for me to adapt myself to Dora, … Continue reading →

18.5 minute gap in Nixon tapes.7 hour gap in Trump’s White House call logs.

(from 1967 to 2022) Greatest luck I ever had.

(like something The Incredible String Band might have written in the late ’60s?)

The above 1971 list suggests what were once considered classics that olde school readers might have taken out from libraries and actually read. But by 1971, some 51 years ago, I recall only the following books were still being read … Continue reading →