Deadwood, the novel by Pete Dexter, was published in 1986, long before the unresolved television spectacle of the same name. Both deal with the same couple years in the strange wild west muddy world driven by greed for gold, and both deal with many of… Read More
Each year there is a Santa Parade along the Lakeshore in Toronto, through the communities known as Mimico, New Toronto and Long Branch. The parade took place this morning and it was a perfect day for it. Near the start of the parade Canada Post… Read More
Those visitors who have been hanging out at 27th Street for a while know that from time to time the Daily Dose gets all thematic. I posted a long series of songs about drink and a longer series of songs about trains a while back.… Read More
Tonight’s Daily Dose takes us to Chicago and Howlin Wolf. My fave moment in this performance is when Wolf takes off his glasses so he can get down to business. If I was exiled to a desert island and could only bring the music of… Read More
Can you believe that, I would mix up my own dogs?
Some time ago when I started reading the Wallander novels by Henning Mankell, I hadn’t realized there was a popular fiction genre known as Nordic Noir, featuring a host of messed up detectives. I haven’t read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson… Read More
I was thinking back to my days living in a storefront studio on Ossington Ave. back in the mid-80s. I really liked that place and had all kinds on interesting adventures back when I lived there. Ossington back then was a mish-mash of businesses. Portuguese… Read More
Today I donned a pair of rubber gloves, sliced up Arno’s habaneros, and set them up in my handy dehydrator (I took the photo before placing the lid on the device). They should be dry by tomorrow evening. Although I didn’t eat one, I believe… Read More
Today while I was at work, one of the cats puked on my keyboard. Now the t and the c and the b don’t work. Maybe they’ll come back later if we’re lucky. Fortunately we have an iPad and that was safely tucked away, safe… Read More
We were thinking of a day drawing and painting in the landscape today, but it was a littly chilly for that, so we settled on taking the dogs to the South Etobicoke Creek dog park. This off-leash area was closed for quite a long time… Read More
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