I met up with Ted and Isabel today to play some Old Time music. We’ve been having these sessions regularly, and I am enjoying them so much. Ted and I had already been playing together for a while before Isabel joined us. We had a… Read More
Here’s Hopping Jenny performing a great Garry Harrison Tune, Dull Chisel….
I really wanted one of these when I was a boy. I imagined zooming around in Grenadier Pond, firing rockets and torpedoes at imagined enemies. Mom said no.
Did you ever order anything from the back pages of a comic book? I once ordered up some sea monkeys and sure enough a packet of what appeared to be freeze-dried brine shrimp arrived in the post. I don’t recall the result being a bowlfull… Read More
Some regular visitors to this little oasis in the blog-swamp may have read my Lazy Allen Stories (now available in paperback and for Kindle on Amazon as Squeeze Box Man – The Lazy Allen Stories). I’ve been working with Jacob Yerex to reinvent these stories… Read More
Sometimes that’s all about the music. I was looking for a different version of Lady on the Green on YouTube when I stumbled into this delightful video. I love this tune. I learned to play it on banjo a couple years ago at one of… Read More
Clive D’Oliveira passed away early this morning, from cancer. He was just shy of his 64th birthday. Clive was a rigorous and thoughtful painter and an old friend we’ve known for many years. I think we met him back in the day because we had… Read More
The other night, with Tuffy P working late bringing home the bacon, I got a wee fire going in the woodstove and turned on the television. Channel 11 often has wonderfully entertaining bad movies playing and this night was no exception. I didn’t know until… Read More
27th Street 