Somebody landed on this blog after entering “Anchovy Dream” into a search engine. Salty sure, but maybe it’s about being crammed together in a can with the lights out? I hardly think of anchovys prior to canning. I do think about trout from time to… Read More
Of course I appreciate regular visitors to this blog. Also interesting though, are some of the search terms people type into whatever search engine they fancy, and end up in my little corner cyberspace. Here’s a recent sample: diagram of button accordion puffballs found in… Read More
I found this posted over at the Presurfer, a place where you never know what you’re going to find. It’s a literature map. Type in an author and you get a moving cloud of related authors. I wish the list in its database was more… 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
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
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
Thanks to East Texas Red for sending me this article from the L.A. Times. Scientists have found an elusive yeast in a forest in Argentina that is one of two yeasts that together formed the yeast used for making lager beer. Who knew? Yeasts are… Read More
Last night I found myself out on a boat cruise in Toronto Harbour. Here’s a view of the city from the lake… I was there to support my nephew Luke who is a guitar picker in a band called Slaves 2 Debt. That’s Luke over… Read More
I need to share a line with you this morning friends. This was sent to me by my pal East Texas Red. It’s the Titanic Taxonomy of Wrestling Names. I know you need this. You just don’t know it yet.
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