Music
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Where was I?
It has become the great measuring stick for iconic events. Do you remember where you were when "X" happened. And it is one we heard of with great frequency this past weekend of remembrance and anniversary. And for the record, 10 years ago on September 11th, I was sitting in my office at the Detachment
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Music at the time, my favourite
Okay, leaving #1 off the list was a cheap attempt at driving people back to the blog in eager anticipation of my favourite album bought in 2010. And that would be the sound of crickets. My favourite group of 2010, was one I discovered from last year’s Rolling Stone top 30 albums list. Thanks Townie
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Music at the time
I don't normally post lists like this. I'm not a music critic or reviewer, I have neither the skills nor the inclination for that. But a casual mention on FaceBook that my top ten list for 2010 seemed to have a lot of banjos in it, brought a couple of requests for the list so
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Wind Don’t Blow
I had another post in mind for today, and I might get at it later, after I run my head around what I want to say exactly. But, in the mean time, do yourself a favour and have a listen to my friend's, (Karen MacKenzie, of Port Town Ghosts fame) music. She just released a
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Glowworm
After reading a couple of posts over at A Passion for Nature about Glow Worms I ended up really curious about some things. Specifically I got thinking about glowing as a strategy when you're a relatively sedate small organism. It makes sense as a strategy for a winged animal, but less so (to me) for
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Gallow’s Pole
I meant to post this earlier, a congratulations to New Mexico for becoming the fifteenth State to abolish the death penalty. It didn’t come from a realization that the Death Penalty is fundamentally wrong, but from the, almost as important, realization that justice systems, despite their best efforts otherwise, are unable to guarantee that no
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I ain’t got a card to sign
Steve Earle is a brilliant song writer, and his song Valentine's Day is beautiful and you know, just know, that it comes from his screwing up on Valentine's Day. But it is also a wonderful expression of his love for his wife (the one he married twice "Our divorce didn't work out."). When it came
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Committees, coffee and clouds
Okay, I've been a bad blogger. And I can't help it. Well I can, but I've been occupied of late and tired, and so when I sit in front of a blank composing screen my mind matches it, blank. I actually almost fell off the office chair a couple of days ago when I fell
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Musical interlude
My time hasn't been my own the last couple of days, and though I've sat down to write a couple of things my eyes start rolling back in my head and I end up not writing anything. Perhaps tomorrow. In the mean time, I just discovered that Michael of Canadian CKayaker, in addition to being
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Bound by harmony
I used to say that police work would be a lot better with a soundtrack. And safer, when the ominous music rose you'd know that you were in for something serious. While you occasionally hear people refer to the music they listen to as the soundtrack to their lives, it really isn't the same. For