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for audiences over the years was seeing how they would react, how music affected them, and what they did in response to it. When Ken and I performed as Fudge for students and staff functions, the effects were immediate. Listeners … Continue reading →

via Western movies, tv Westerns, and comic books. Both pistols blazin’ (in the imagination): a typical grade 2 Canadian kid in 1957.

The pictures do not lie. (my ‘hippie’ u years) Age 21, I had finished a BA, English at U of A, in the spring of ’71, with 1 year of PD/AD (Professional Diploma/After Degree in Education) to go so I … Continue reading →

of the future. T.S. Eliot, author of the great 20th century poem–The Waste Land, when asked about the future of our Civilization, said “Internecine fighting, people killing one another in the streets.” Civilization to him appeared a crumbling edifice destined … Continue reading →

(1967: hamming it up as a ‘Marlon Brandoish’ Usher with large red handkerchief in grade 12 production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial by Jury) And so you who knew him long ago in the past, you who remember him as … Continue reading →

(Let the Sunshine In)”, 1969, by The Fifth Dimension on the radio today, I thought about how much the times have changed and declined from The Summer of Love (1967) to The Age of Hate, Fear, Ignorance, and Loathing (2021). … Continue reading →

up in smoke thanks to another failed Kenney bad choice in court. His ‘War Room’, its main accomplishment–outing a Bigfoot cartoon–costs taxpayers 82 thou a day! The media should be all over what that total agenda-ed waste costs a month … Continue reading →

“I stand here dazzled with my heart in flames at this world of wonders, world of wonders, world of wonders, world of wonders…“ (Bruce Cockburn–Canada’s top male political folk-singer and songwriter, and top folk-guitarist)

What the average Canadian family pays from their income for federal, provincial, and municipal taxes per year. Apparently some middle and upper families pay over 50%. Now that’s servitude, baby. (info: Fraser Institute, 2013)

“We can discover meaning in life in three different ways: 1) by doing a deed; 2) by experiencing a value; and 3) by suffering….The second way is by experiencing something, such as a work of nature or culture; and also … Continue reading →