Alienated in Vancouver

Come on, everybody, let's give Lynn Lowry a hand! In many ways, the high point of next weekend's Northwest Horror Show , for m...

It's coming... (photo by bev davies).

I met Tony Conrad once, briefly. One day in 2006, I discovered that I could see three Nomeansno shows, in Hamilton, Waterloo I think, and T...

You know the scenes in Repo Man when Otto attempts to interact with his parents, sitting immobilized in front of the TV, skin blue in th...

So another "one step forward, one step back" for Ma. Her steps forward were quite literal, in fact: when physio came, encouraged b...

Note: I previously entitled this piece "Red Herring Friday." But this was a red herring. The gig is on Saturday, folks. I'm un...

Well, we seem to be mostly out of the woods, here. Mom was alert and relatively strong today, after a week of infection, sedation, a...

I'm totally excited about Jeff Nichols ' new movie, Midnight Special , though I want to know as little about it as possible. I...

...but I'm not going to write about her anymore this week. Today was exhausting, eleven hours spent with her in hospital, with several s...

So the other day, when Mom was vomiting a bunch - deep, stinky bile, bearing on her gall bladder issues - somewhere in there, she lost her...

Having declared on this very blog that my favourite acts (of those I saw) at the Bowie Tribute Night last month were Orchard Pinkish, Trail...

My Mom and I, taken last weekend; I went for a haircut, and she got a perm: So maybe four or five days ago - maybe last Sunday, w...

I kinda came out of my metal phase, if you were wondering. It peaked around 2009; this blog has plenty of evidence of it. I needed to spend ...

So my GP thought prednisone would be a good idea for my reactive arthritis, saying - and thus convincing me - that "we don't want t...

The new film version of Macbeth , with Michael Fassbender in the lead, is astonishing. In its various slow-slow motion sequences, which co...