Somehow, I posted a lengthy list of train songs a while back without including the late Handsome Ned performing Steel Rail Blue. That just isn’t right. I thought about this tune because I have been writing in this space about my days living in a… Read More
I’ve been recounting a couple of stories from my days living in what was once a hardware store on Ossington Ave, here in Toronto, back in the mid-80s, and since I’m on a roll, here’s another. Apparently, you aren’t supposed to live in a hardware… Read More
Mr. Edwards played a lifetime of blues. He was 96.
Back on Ossington – I hope you don’t mind another little story from that time – a friend of mine from University was renting the back studio. Rob decided to get a dog and so off we went to the Humane Society where he found… Read More
In the mid-80s, I had a studio in an old hardware store at 70 Ossington Ave. here in Toronto. A few of my old pals who visit this space may remember it. We had some good times there. It had pegboard walls from the hardware… Read More
…when I venture into my painting studio, I do so with the uneasy feeling that anything can happen.
I was asked for mushroom recipes in a recent comment. Here’s one. First go collect some puffballs. You need two pans for this. In one, add a little olive oil and start some onion cooking. Add garlic, tomatoes from the garden, perhaps some zucchini or… Read More
I took the dogs for a long walk in a forest not so far from home, and came back with the bounty you see in the picture above. These are (not so) giant puffballs and Lactarius deliciosus, aka Saffron Milk Caps. There is also a… Read More
Thanks to Salvelinas Fontinalis for sending in this article. Gibson Guitars in Memphis and Nashville have been raided by federal agents, who seized several pallets of wood as well as computer files and guitars. The folks at Gibson contend they bought the wood from a… Read More
27th Street 