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All posts by “Eugene Knapik”
Bye Bye Cable
I canceled our cable tv today. For years we were good with rabbit ears, but when we moved to Long Branch we decided to try out cable. We get loads and loads of channels but very little programming that really interests us. I suggested to… Read More
Let’s Go Ridin’ in my Car
Hayseed Dixie
This is for all the folk music freaks out there who secretly wish they were rocker dudes.
Donald Duck Dunn RIP
Soul fans know Donald “Duck” Dunn as the bassist for the Stax rhythm section and Booker T and the MGs. Later music lovers may have been introduced to him in The Blues Brothers film. Mr. Dunn was just 70. He died in his sleep in… Read More
Garden Updates
I thought the lean-to needed more substance, and so I fortified it some today. I also planted a flowering currant shrub. That’s the plant with the yellow flowers on the right side of the photo. The veggie garden is coming along fine. We’ll be… Read More
Breeze
We ventured out to Bloor St W this afternoon for the opening of an exhibition of paintings by Claude Breeze. Of course we brought Memphis and Ellie Mae along. The show is at Robert Kananaj Gallery on Bloor near Landsdowne. I’ve known Claude and his… Read More
Shelf
There is, or at least there was, a shelf above the desk in my studio. I had it piled with stuff I need to have handy but I don’t use all that often. All that material is now on the floor since the shelf spontaneously… Read More
Joe Cooley
I post quite a lot of music on this blog but it isn’t so often I point to the same performance of the same tune twice. However, I stumbled across this one on YouTube, and I was delighted all over again. Let’s listen to “the… Read More
Swarm
My next door neighbour has a swarm of honey bees on his property. I think this happens when the colony wants to establish a new hive. I have never seen so many bees together in my life. Most of them are huddled together in the… Read More
27th Street 