A listing of upcoming concerts in Lanark County Ontario.

Last year I started writing a memoir.  In response to Scarlett's open call for Canucks In New York, here's an excerpt.   

 It was getting near the end of July, and I had a ticket for the big event of the summer of ’73:  the Watkins Glen Summer Jam.  Everywhere I&rs… Read full post »

(Cont'd from previous post)

After my first delivery, it's a whole new part of the day as I swoop around the north side of the GTA (Greater Toronto Area), disposing of my cargo piece by piece.  Almost every stop is another health food store, but they are all different.  Some are… Read full post »

4:23 a.m.  the familiar sound of Gordon Lightfoot's "Early Mornin Rain" wakes me from a restless sleep on the living room couch.  Couldn't have come up with a better alarm, since it is backed by actual rain noise from outside.  The forecast was for freezing rain, and since I have to… Read full post »

I'm just trying to get myself motivated to get ready for our pub gig this evening.  My little Celtic band, The Skirmish, is always working on St Patrick's Day, but in recent years, the number and lucrativeness of gigs has declined.  That's partly recession and general decline in pub culture… Read full post »

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper shut the doors of Parliament by proroguing the session until after the Olympics.  This was an elaborate attempt at realpolitik that now seems more like a descent into fantasyland.  

Proroguing is the prime minister's privilege of asking the governor-ge… Read full post »

SPOILER...if you are one of those sissies that can't stand the truth when it has come through the gate, please don't read on. 

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The Women's Sup… Read full post »

Just saw the news that four more Canadian soldiers and a female journalist, Michelle Lang of the Calgary Herald, were killed near Kandahar today when their armored vehicle was blown up.  

 I am so sick of this.  And I am sick that I know exactly what will happen to them--the… Read full post »

Many years ago, when animation was hand-drawn and coloured, yea, I say unto you, back in the prehistoric days of the very early 80's, my great pal Becca went to England for a year.  She had a job working on an animated movie called "The Snowman", from a comic by Raymond… Read full post »

My brilliant daughter arrived home a few days ago.  The first day she was here, we made a video for the Project for Awesome 2009 on Youtube--someone's subversive effort to make content on Youtube socially useful for a few hours a year by flooding the feed with vids about good causes,… Read full post »

So, there seems to be an unofficial open call regarding camping, pro or con, cite your experiences, they don't have to be true but they have to be funny.  (Am I getting this right so far? I know, I am inaccurately paraphrasing Stuart MacLean.  Perhaps we're closer in style to "The… Read full post »

We're just about at St Andrew's Day, the national day of Scotland, Nov 30.  It tends to be overlooked in favour of Robbie Burns Day; this makes some kinda sense to me, there is a lot more material from Scotland's greatest bard (not to mention a more tangible connection to Scotland)… Read full post »

Since there is a bit of interest right now about the war of 1812, I thought I would tell this peculiar story, which involves an ancestor on my mom's side, one Benjamin Darling.  

If your family has certain stories that go back a century or more, have you ever tried… Read full post »

In concluding the last year of whatever this decade is called, we are also wrapping up the 40th-anniversary recollections of that well-known set of years known as "the sixties", or "The Sixties".  Since the specific year in question is now 1969, I've been recalling the most unlikely and tragic c… Read full post »

So last week I was hanging around in Sackville, New Brunswick.  Molly and I went down east for a week to have a wee vacation, but mostly to help our daughter pack up for her impending move back to Ontario, and bring back most of her belongings.  In my case, it… Read full post »

It's a quiet, chilly morning smack in the middle of autumn.  I'm not quite ready for winter, but have reached a tipping point where more of the absolutely essential things have been done than not.  My family is sleeping in, a delightful practice which I am usually incapable of doing.  … Read full post »

You wouldn't believe what this damn socialist system has put me through now.  

Yesterday, I went to the Socialist Health Care Centre of All Blessings, to get my pretty-nearly-chronic back pain checked out. I had an appointment, but I still had to wait ten whole minutes, with nothing to do… Read full post »

I meant to post something that's actually interesting, but instead I am posting Cameron's Corollary to Murphy's Law:

If you have kept every single PC and monitor you and your family have owned in the past 20 years, you will always have spare peripherals.  But suppose the e-clutter is wearing out… Read full post »