This computer is about 15 feet from the front door. It’s raining and still kids are out trick or treating. I’m surfing the YouTube machine between groups of kids……and I seem to be stuck on Amy Rigby and Wreckless Eric tonight. This is what happens… Read More
Monthly archives of “October 2019”
Do you remember that?
Amy Rigby with Wreckless Eric…
Get your Ghoul on

The Price of Salt
I just finished reading Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 masterpiece, The Price of Salt. How is it I failed to read this before now? Highsmith initially published this same-sex love story as Claire Morgan, then republished it many years later under her own name, but with the… Read More
Redneck?
In the fall, red-necked grebes lose their characteristic red neck. I photographed this one in Lake Ontario at Sam Smith Park.
Pods
A lot of the honey locusts planted around here are male trees. We have one of those in our front yard. It deposits a lot of pollin on the garden each year. In Sam Smith Park there are several female honey locusts, notable for their… Read More
Pied-billed Grebe
….at Sam Smith Park, Toronto
My City
A new page – The Agency Reading List
I created a new page/menu item attached to 27th Street tonight, called The Agency Reading List. This page is simply a dynamic list of all the books discussed in various contexts during episodes of The Agency podcast. Documenting them here provides a reference for listeners… Read More
720 Sexes
The new episode of The Agency Podcast, 720 Sexes, is up. I hope you enjoy it!