Category Entertainment
Elvis Wasn’t In This Building
I don’t remember reading the book before. Maybe it came from my parents’ house when they moved into a retirement residence, or maybe I picked it up at a garage sale. Not that I frequent garage sales. It was a Perry Mason mystery, Erle Stanley Gardner’s The Case of the Cautious Coquette. (Does anyone these […]
Remembering Johnny
It’s Easter, and today I miss Johnny Hart. The creator of two popular late 20th century comic strips died in 2007. Neither the Wizard of Id nor B.C. is among my all-time favourite strips. I am more partial to Doonesbury, Dilbert, Calvin and Hobbes and Bloom County. Still, most of the time I would find […]
Spotlight
Imagine my surprise to wake up Monday morning and discover that Spotlight had won the Academy Award for best picture. All the pundits had indicated that The Revenant was the overwhelming favourite. I haven’t seen the film. I’m conducting a mini-boycott; I’ll wait for it to show up on Netflix rather than pay to see […]
Oscar Time
I know it is the 29th of February. I am missing out on the opportunity to dazzle you with some witty leap-day oriented post. Please forgive me. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annual awards, the Oscars, were handed out last night. It was a big deal, television pre-shows, the red carpet, millions […]
Trumped!
Okay, I was wrong. Or maybe I was right and he changed his mind. Sometime in the past six months Donald Trump has become a serious political candidate. It is becoming increasingly likely he will win the Republican presidential nomination, making him a 50-50 choice to become the next president of the United States. How […]
Leaving Hotel California
I was thinking about posting some more thoughts about David Bowie when the news came Monday that Glenn Frey had died. It seems like 2016 is going to be a bad year for fans of aging rock stars. Frey, of course, was the guitarist for The Eagles, one of the group’s two founders (the other […]
The Martian
When the Oscar nominees were announced last week I noted that I had not seen any of the films in the Best Picture category (or most other nominated films for that matter). If I was ambitious, or had more time, I would make it my mission to see all the nominees before the awards are […]
Monday’s Words Of Wisdom
I have no idea where I got this one. I really need to pay more attention when I see these things online. That way at least I can give credit where credit is due. If I was more computer literate I’d fix the grammatical error, but that sort of skill is beyond me.
A Christmas Bonus!
This showed up in my Facebook feed today. I first met Roy almost 40 years ago – so nice to see he’s still putting out music. Roy Salmond – Producer Sponsored · A little over 10 years ago, I created a solo piano album of mellow Christmas favourites. They were sold as a ‘value […]
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