Gaelynn Lea performing Watch the World Unfold
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All posts by “Eugene Knapik”
Fred Hellerman RIP
Fred Hellerman, last of the folk group The Weavers, has passed. He was 89. RIP.
Forest Drawings
Here’s a couple snaps of charcoal drawings I made while out foraging in the enchanted mushroom forest a few days ago.
Ornate boletes and an old chicken
Buoyed by my success foraging the other day, I ventured off to some other forests this morning. There were quite a few boletes around, mostly Boletus ornatipes, the ornate-stalked boletes. There were also pockets of some variety of suillus, which I don’t care for and… Read More
From the Comfort Food Diner: wild mushroom and cheese omelet
First, visit the enchanted mushroom forest and forage up some tasty edible mushrooms. Any old fool knows that mushrooms you’ve foraged yourself taste best. Just be sure you pick tasty edibles and not sickeners or poisonous mushrooms. Today I used scaber stalks (Leccinum), which I… Read More
Painting exhibition coming up soon
I just want to let people know I have an art exhibition coming up – the opening reception will be Saturday September 10 at Yumart. My last show was at the old Yumart space on Spadina about a year and a half ago now. For… Read More
City on Fire – a book review
Late last night I finished reading Garth Risk Hallberg’s sprawling epic first novel, City on Fire. I bought the hardcover one day, wandering through a bookstore looking for something I could really sink my teeth into. City on Fire served up as much as I… Read More
Movietime – Hell or High Water
Hell or Highwater is a modern-day western heist outlaw movie set in west Texas. The big bad bank is about to foreclose on the family ranch and two brothers come together with a plan to save the farm by robbing branches of that very bank… Read More
Mushrooms
I packed my drawing gear and a mushroom basket and ventured out to the enchanted mushroom forest this morning. It’s been such a poor season for mushrooms I didn’t expect to find much, perhaps a couple lobsters and hedgehogs – but instead I found lots… Read More
Family BBQ
We had a wonderful time yesterday hosting a bbq with many family (and one honourary family member) on both sides over for an evening of good cheer and conversation (as well as loads of good food and drink). I didn’t take any photos, but Sheila… Read More
27th Street 