It is getting so difficult to keep up with the daily tsunami of outrageous statements and acts coming out of MAGA America that we hardly know where to direct our… Read More »Who’s Punk? What’s the Score?….Song #24/24: Dear Coach’s Corner by Propagandhi
Way back in my bachelor boy days, a group of friends and I formed an international cooking club. Each month we would select a country and then we would each… Read More »Reader’s Choice/Tom’s Top Tunes…Song #79/250: Down Under by Men At Work
The Shawshank Redemption is one heck of a great movie. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards at the time of its release (including Best Picture, Best Actor for Tim… Read More »The Stars of Stage and Screen…Song #74/250: Duettino: Sull’Aria (from the Opera The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart) by Edith Mathis and Gundula Janowitz from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for the Film The Shawshank Redemption
NOTE: Today’s book review was inspired by another book entitled Letters. That book was a memoir of scientist and storyteller Dr. Oliver Sacks, told through a lifetime of his personal… Read More »From the Library of Dr. Oliver Sacks: Book Review #11: Gimpel the Fool by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Editor’s note: This post is being written in the wake of Canada’s worst mass shooting involving children at a school which, in this case, was in a tiny town in… Read More »The Great Canadian Road Trip…Song #86/250: Sun In An Empty Room by The Weakerthans
When was the last time you heard a really good speech? I’m talking about a speech so good that it has gone down in the annals of history? A speech… Read More »Reader’s Choice/Tom’s Top Tunes…Song #78/250: Cult of Personality by Living Colour
NOTE: Today’s book review was inspired by another book entitled Letters. That book was a memoir of scientist and storyteller Dr. Oliver Sacks, told through a lifetime of his personal… Read More »From the Library of Dr. Oliver Sacks: Book Review #10: To The Finland Station by Edmind Wilson
I have always loved living near the water. That is funny to say because I am not a mariner, nor do I like most seafood and I have never learned… Read More »Places, Everyone!…Music Venue #23/25: The First Avenue Nightclub in Minneapolis, Minnesota
I am hopeful that by the time you get to reading this post that British singer Olivia Dean is someone who has appeared on your music-loving radar. She recently won… Read More »Reader’s Choice/Tom’s Top Tunes…Song #77/250: Man I Need by Olivia Dean
Welcome back to the blog! It has been a while since I have written a formal post. A lot has been going on in my life and in the world… Read More »The Stars of Stage and Screen…Song #73/250: Golden (as sung by) EJAE, Audrey Nina and REI AMI from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to the Film KPop Demon Hunters