Alienated in Vancouver

I am predisposed to like Josh Hartnett, for a somewhat unusual reason. Y'see, the school I was posted to when I taught in Japan was...

So we took the risk and went out to see live music for the third time since COVID restrictions started to ease. Didn't feel much like a ...

I have mixed feelings about the whole cultural appropriation foofaraw. On the one hand, I understand why marginalized groups are sensitive t...

Back in the early 1990's, one of the local punks I'd see in Maple Ridge, Darien - that's how I always spelled his name in my min...

So movie theatres are re-opening , but it looks like no one wants to put out a major blockbuster type film in the midst of a pandemic, w...

There are few living American musicians whose body of work I revere more than Peter Stampfel, of the Fugs, Holy Modal Rounders, Bottlecaps, ...

(Updates below). Okay, so on Thursday around 7pm, I was halfway through watching a blu-ray. Machine - a Samsung Home Theatre J4500 - was w...

I was making pancakes recently and wondering about Aunt Jemima. I have fond brand recognition for Aunt Jemima - it's a product that ha...

Fauci is quoted somewhere in a headline today observing that people keep saying a second wave is coming while we're still in the first w...

The Cave sounds like it was a pretty cool venue. Never went there myself, but I've collected stories from people who played the Cave ...

I interviewed Tad Doyle, of my all-time favourite grunge band TAD, a few years ago for a German magazine; the English version of that art...

Erika and I took a drive this afternoon out towards Pitt Lake. We didn't quite get there - the last leg of the road was fenced off - but...

I want to write something topical and relevant about what has been going on in the US (or teach a discussion skills class again where we can...

Nice to see Bob get angry again!

Many things cross my mind these days, and occupy my reading. Questions linger, like, "The Epoch Times versus the Chinese Communist Part...

During the two months of our COVID-19 shudown, I have done very little record shopping. One trip to Neptoon, one trip to Audiopile. Other...