My stepfather Vern has been in and out of the hospital this fall. At this point he is in again and it looks like he might not pull through. He's weak and at best semi-conscious ( Read more... )

It's time I posted something, so I won't have a July date staring at me accusingly every time I log on to see what my friends have been writing ( Read more... )

I took my mom to Massachusetts for my Aunt Fran's funeral. Fran was Mom's youngest sister, a mere 85 to her 92 ( Read more... )

If it's a really hot day this might seem hard to believe...from a few short months ago. The weird trip-hop soundtrack is a mutilation of the actual voice track, wherein I'm describing what's under each blob of snow...Dave's truck, my old Mazda, my car...etc. It sounds arguable better than the original, maybe.



Don't you feel cooler already?

St Patty's Day started on saturday with a house party gig--went great, they loved us, they especially loved the old Lightfoot & Tyson material we did at the hostesses request. I'll play those songs anytime but they rarely get such an enthused response ( Read more... )

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Two more slices of my life--a couple of scenes from my Toronto run. The first one is the sixty seconds a week on Albany St taking the Jane Jacobs Memorial Shortcut. (Listen and you'll understand).

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The second one is a look at a sight I have always glimpsed but never checked out till now--a collection of dilapidated railcars on a siding in ( Read more... )

The latest bad news to come over the wire: Willie P Bennett died on Friday. Not much detail publicly released yet, just this ( Read more... )

So, I got a new cellphone and took it skiing and figured out how to use the camcorder function and saved a couple of clips and put em on Youtube. It's like I've joined the 21st century or something.

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(hey, it works!)

Next I concluded that skiing videos are more interesting with people in them. So here is Sandy McNulty showin off her style:

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Today it started several degrees above zero, and raining a bit, but with dire weather warnings about impending flash freeze and 60-100km/hr winds blasting from the frozen southwest (?). Along with more freezing rain, probably some snow, and eventually just rain. Its just about down to freezing now. All this weather activity is just too damn bad ( Read more... )