We bought this little village of bird houses at Nice old Stuff in Jarvis, Ontario. We’ll be applying some mosaic to these, then some of them will be mounted on top of the two pillars we’ve planted in the back yard (which will also get… Read More
….and Tuffy P and her friend Nadia are behind it. Tuffy P (AKA Sheila Gregory in the real world) started a Garden Tour blog. Check it out. I’ll be providing the banjo music here at 27th Street.
See more photos at Long Branch Mosaics.
For years there have been chess programs that have beaten top players, but computers playing the game of Go haven’t fared so well – until now. Check out this article. This morning, Nature published a paper describing DeepMind’s system, which makes clever use of, among other… Read More
For the most part we don’t have nearly as much gun violence in our city as our neighbours to the south and it’s easy for us to be smug about the bizarre American fetish for firearms. This morning though, I was taking the dogs out… Read More
Tuffy P posting….this shot caught the tail end first minutes of our welcome party. It started early with tail wagging and kisses from George and Memphis, and then Miss Phyllis woke up from behind an accordion to come and chill with her new ‘soul sister’,… Read More
In spring of 1986 I took a part time job at Canada Post sorting mail. I had an art habit, a bad one, and I needed a day job, or as it turned out, an evening job, to support it. I recall I even wrote… Read More
As regular visitors know, I’ve been posting some short-short stories here at 27th Street. These are all part of a series of pieces I call The Lazy Allen Stories. They’re set, or at least they’re being told in 1982 in Toronto, and they’re all stories… Read More
Here’s Matt Kinman, performing the Merle Travis masterpiece, Dark as a Dungeon. There are a few coal mining tunes around. Let’s listen to The Mountain by Steve Earle, performed here by Mr. Earle withLevon Helm and his band. And to cap off this little coal… Read More
Tuffy P posting this morning’s photo from our side door.
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