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Yesterday Putin wickedly gave Trump a World Cup soccer ball as a gift. This, of course, echoes the scene in Shakespeare’s play Henry V when the young king is insultingly sends tennis balls in response to a serious matter. Yesterday, … Continue reading →

  (JT’s best live work on VHS: left: James Taylor In Concert, SMV Enterprises; right: Squibnocket–CMV) During one Strathcona High school-day lunch-hour, five teachers lost in an hour of JT’s live Boston concert which I’d just recorded. Sitting in front … Continue reading →

“David”–Earle Birney “In Flanders Fields”–John McCrae “The Cremation of Sam McGee”–Robert Service “A January Morning”–Archibald Lampman “The Lonely Land”–A.J.M. Smith “The Bull Calf”–Irving Layton “Adolescence”–P.K. Page “The Swimmer’s Moment”–Margaret Avison “This Is a Photograph of Me”–Margaret Atwood “You Have the … Continue reading →

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have permanently and unconscionably destroyed Edmonton–its roads, neighborhoods, the flow and access, events and tourism. Edmonton is now a dump, a demolition site, much like what you see in Third World countries on the news. Think of them as you … Continue reading →

Vintage Fork now open for breakfast, lunch, brunch, jazz nights, and afternoon tea. Reservations online.

Obit. Claude Lanzmann, 92. The filmmaker who took 12 years to make Shoah, his 9 1/2 honest documentary document on the Holocaust using horrific survivor testimony. We will not see his like again.

Yes, but sometimes when I pick up my pen, I remember Homer, Shakespeare, Dante Wordsworth, Blake Tennyson, Keats Whitman, Dickinson, Eliot, Yeats Auden, Cummings, Thomas, Frost, Ferlinghetti and Ginsberg– the reality of impossibility and limits of inspiration make me reconsider. … Continue reading →

All 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach rescued from the flooded caves. An amazing humanitarian effort and achievement. The truly feel-good story of the year.

Beaten by Croatians. Yes-s-s. Putin’s wrath will be focused on the goalie and the forward who missed the goal on a penalty kick; they will both end up in Siberia. But the sour mood shouldn’t last long with his president-acolyte … Continue reading →