Spent last week at the 2016 incarnation of Richard Thompson’s Frets and Refrains camp. Last year's camp-my first time-was a transformational experience. This year was inspirational.

I went intending to take Jill Sobule’s songwriting workshop and Sloan Wainwright’s voice workshop. Having spent some time listening to Martin Carthy’s music on the 9- ( Read more... )

So, the Pigfucker leaves quite a political legacy behind him.

The referendum’s not binding, but if he had any courage to speak of it wouldn’t have happened in the first place.

It's hard formulating a sane reaction to senseless events ( Read more... )

There was a time when the CBC produced drama that the world envied. And I don’t mean l’affaire Ghomeshi.

I'm a couple of days behind this year, and seem to have missed posting this for the last two years, but here's the semi-traditional link to Billy Connolly's "Crucifixion" sketch and my transcription thereof.

For grendelis: http://threepanelsoul.com/2014/08/04/egress/

Went to see Game On 2.0 at the Ontario Science Centre. Having seen the original Game On in Edinburgh, Lo These Many Years Ago, I was looking forward to it. Watching Wreck-It Ralph (which is chock full of vintage game references, a few of which even I picked up on) last night also motivated abigor into coming along...in fact, she booked the tickets while ( Read more... )

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I appear to have missed my not-quite-annual Canada Day post again last year. Perhaps it's now a biannual Canada Day post ( Read more... )

Somebody came to the door yesterday to invite me to "a celebration of Jesus's death". I merely said a polite no thank-you, but as I headed upstairs though of the things I could have said: "Celebrating his death? What kind of people are you ( Read more... )