Saw Steve Earle last... alive as you and me. It was great. Three hours of a wide range of styles. He was far hairier than in this video, my favorite of his songs. Here's the studio version.  •  There aren't enough good songs about Mainers. Chamberlain. Finest kind.

Been listening to Sharon Jones for yoinks on the Beat Authority. But with the collapse of Borders, I found myself facing a couple of albums for deep discount when we crossed the border the other day. Me? I'd build a garage out back by myself if she'd play every second Tuesday. By myself I would …

That is what this heat wave-ette has been treated like here in Easlakia. It got to 44C with the humidex yesterday. Yet here at 7:00 am it's 21C with the windows open, the air in the house now smelling of something real. Reality. Is that actually a proper subject for late July? I mean it's Friday …

I have been waiting for this arrangement of holidays for years. We are off today so I got up at the crack of 10:15 am. The authorities have noticed. I should mow the lawn, too, but it is stinking hot. I haven't even been out yet and I know that. Then we roam. Looking forward to the Rochester … read more »

People in their mid-50s now having fun when it was the late-70s. I want a push button phone. Better live - as most things were when I was 16.

And old pal sent me this video of The Jam live on the BBC's show The Old Grey Whistle Test from 1978 when I was 15 or 16. I want that guitar. I want that bass. Yuf Explosion. Part of My Life with Loud.

... give them the boot. Or even, at least, top them. As far as I am concerned, one word took Harper from 44 to 34%. Asbestos. I had no idea that former "[h]igh-ranking member of the Canadian government, Transportation Minister Chuck Strahl, suffers from an asbestos-related cancer." The word frames …

One of the finest songs of half my life ago.