A big day around here. Once again we will have mortgaged ourselves but I have prepared myself and now feel fully empowered - or at least around 3 pm will - to scream about property rights and being a tax payer and all that. Except for the fact that the Cooles family is not through the wall of the …

There are many worlds and this is one of them.

It's been a good week here on the coast. Kids have been in a day camp for the  •  first time. Might be the last. You spend your holiday answering to the needs and  •  demands of teen councillors. What is wrong with that picture? Besides, getting  •  them on the bus is too early. Why can't day camp …

This is today's task. This and finding a wild blueberry western frappe at Brunswick...or Bath...can't remember...at Fat Boy Drive-In. Then poking a stich at rocks to see if there are crabs underneath. Then maybe another wild blueberry western frappe. I don't know why they are western …

A static image for Opera browser users  •  Too much serious talk this week. The long weekend is coming up so here is one of the more important ska tunes from my youth from an Old Grey Whistle Test broadcast of The Specials circa 1980. I feel so Flea-like using YouTube and all. Especially when it …

I am sufficiently dimwitted to have not twigged to the fact that this weekend is a single break amongst six where I am not on the road in some way or another. How luxurious is the ability to do nothing. And I have. But this is something you really ought to try. Frozen scallops. Get your morter and …

Here it is, just past the middle of the solar year and once again I did not build my own private Stonehenge nor did I celebrate the solstice by spinning about in loose but body covering clothing in earth tones in the presence of others spinning about in the same sort of loose clothing. I have been …

It's not that The Smiths were just good. It's that no one ever sounded like them before and they were not part of a wave or a movement or anything else. They were just the turn of the 80s twenty years ago. There were long periods when I could not listen because of the bleakness of the lyrics - but …

What Ho! This is my 3003rd post to Gen X 40 over 3 years and 6 weeks or so and I have never begun with a "What Ho!" to you. So "What Ho, all you all!"  •  Now is the day, the day of fitba. Europe, in addition to being just generally evil and liberal (which I know because blogs say so), is …