Ever have a song sneak into your head which you actually haven’t heard in a really long time? That happened to me today. I’ve known the song for many many years but I can’t remember the last time I heard it. It’s by Rufus Jaganeaux… Read More
I started reading The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz. It’s one of those books I overlooked along the way. Maybe this was because I saw the movie many years ago. Sometimes when I see a movie based on a book I avoid the book, especially if… Read More
Joel Mabus…
I’d like to give you a sneak peak tonight into the goings on in my little basement studio. I’ve got a number of smallish canvases on the go and some of them are beginning to assert themselves as paintings. This one is called Five Miles… Read More
I returned today from a whirlwind work trip to Edmonton. I landed in a city already enjoying a serious snowstorm. And it just kept on snowing and snowing. So every conversation started with, “quite the snowstorm, eh?” Then the temperature started dropping, leveling off at… Read More
Jim the Boy is the 2000 novel by Tony Earley. I bought my copy in the bookstore in Paris Ontario, a bookstore from an other era, where the fellow who runs the place proudly stocks books he likes and cares about. I don’t know what… Read More
One of the things I love about Old Time music is that songs are passed along and revitalized over time. In the pop music “business” on the other hand, every lick has to be considered “original”. How many performers have sued one another over the… Read More
27th Street 