This is why you don't really have to worry about these things:  •  I kissed a squirrel and I liked it.  •  Hope my chipmunk don't mind it.  •  There are variations on the theme.

It was an interesting thing to do, drive 3400 km to see some old friends and meet other people I have only known through blogs and other web media. Not nearly as creepy as it should have been. Except the location. A bit too Ibsen for me. A bit too howl-yowly wind rattling the window pane. I asked …

...and what have we learned? One thing is that Stephen Harper and the rest of them can have a fairly civilized discussion when they sit at a table rather than point and pontificate from a podium. Next election, some beer and bags of sour cream and onion chips in the middle, please. Other than that …

I still have boxes of cassettes - as well as 45s come to think of it. I never had any 8-tracks and those that did usually ended their lives in those huge anti-8-track riots of the early 1980s. But sad to see the demise of the handy cassette, the giver of mobile take anywhere music:  •  While the …

I need a new back today. Despite the sit up and other exertions of unbelievable dedication, the back still goes. And it is quite prepared to go before just before the summer holiday begins. Such is life. Good thing I plan to do nothing.  •  Nevermind those who 3% of folk who think George W. Bush …

I sometimes wonder why Canadian news media report on the reporting of things. So often the CBC or major papers go out and find out what person X thinks about or can explain about what happened to person Y. There is a level of abstraction that isn't the case elsewhere. As you likely know, I watch …

I still have my lps. Somewhere I have a box of 45s and in there I know I have a few marked "promotional - not for resale." I expect half the people who ever worked for college radio do, too. My greatest regret in life is actualy that I did not lift the Toto promotional lp that contained band …

May. Almost mid-May. This is the best part of the year, right? Is there anything better than the pre-black-fly world? It's like mosquitoes (is there an "e"?) don't exist, let alone wasps and hornets. It's still all about the plants but not quite yet the mowing. May is a time of imagination …

It ended up not being that idle. Taxes yesterday. Driver's license renewal Tuesday. I'm wiped. Must save up energy to pray for Morton tomorrow.  •  Here is the sound of someone singing in 1860. Here is what it means.  •  Funny how people have long memories.Interesting to note that baseball …