All posts by “Eugene Knapik”
Bruce, King of the Jungle
Tuffy P coming home tomorrow
Tuffy P has been road-tripping around Quebec with pal Toni all week. She’ll be home Saturday evening (yay!). The photo is from Toni’s Instagram.
Episode 3: The 27th Street Podcast
Episode 3 of the 27th Street Podcast is now available. Today on The Twenty Seventh Street Podcast, I speak with Valerie and Jim Clark, Toronto’s vintage poster experts and co-owners of I Desire Vintage Posters. Here are some of the posters we talked about. Jim… Read More
Election Coverage
It seems the election coverage has been ramping up since the Labour Day weekend, as if the real campaign has only just begun. So far only one of the candidates in my area has been around to try to convince me to vote for him… Read More
Words to live by?
Here’s Leroy Troy (warning this video contains banjo tricks….don’t try this at home)
New podcasts coming soon
I had a wonderful time today talking with Valerie and Jim Clark, co-owners of I Desire Vintage Posters here in Toronto, for the next 27th Street Podcast. Valerie and Jim turned their love of vintage posters into a successful business – they’ve been at it… Read More
In Spite of Ourselves
It’s earworm time on 27th Street. Here are John Prine and Iris DeMent performing In Spite of Ourselves. I could listen to this one a dozen times in a row, no problem.
Accordion Boogie
Here’s Dick Contino rocking out on the accordion. I love the fantastic interplay between Dick Contino on piano accordion and Corky Bennett on Hammond B3. These guys just cook.
A banner year for spiders
Here in Long Branch we see a lot of spiders. It was one of the first things I noticed when we moved here several years ago. There were far and away more spiders than around our old place in the Caledonia and St. Clair area… Read More