Category Entertainment

Music For Our Times

My friend Paul posted a video that puts some of the more recent news events in perspective. Not that those who need to hear it will listen.

Super Bowl

The big game is about to kick off – do you care? I must confess I don’t. Oh, I will watch the beginning at least. And I may cheer for Philadelphia since they have one player on their team, but whether they or Kansas City wins makes no difference to me. My guess is I’ll […]

It Just Clicked…

It has been a busy day and I only now realized it is February 3 – the “day the music died.” Every time I hear this song I am reminded of my youth – and feel a certain lament for lost times. If you are of my generation, not only do you know the words, […]

Dragons Live Forever…

…But not so little boys. I was talking with Paul when Peter and Mary walked in. We broke off our conversation so I could be introduced, then returned to talking about Bob Dylan and Jesus. That was the only time I met Peter Yarrow who died January 7at age 86. It was just a hello, […]

A Movie Flashback

Our Friday Flashback today is from August 16, 2017, when I reviewed The Case For Christ. I think I watched it on my computer, which isn’t as good as seeing it on the big screen. I did see the movie a few months later in a church though – dubbed in German. Since I had […]

How To Win Fans

Times have changed. No longer can visiting musicians woo Canadians by praising the Prime Minister. That is so 2015. Maybe the Rolling Stones are just out of touch with Canadian society. No shame in that, given that they don’t live here. And I guess the fans don’t care who the band likes. But I’ll bet […]

Flashback Cars

We continue our Friday Flashback series with a post from July 5, 2018. I’m not really a car guy, but I had fun at this one. This post was the fifth in a series on the event. Time to wrap up our car series from this year’s edition of the Mullheim city festival. You can […]

This Is Spring?

Winter returned with a vengeance on Thursday. After the last snow melted at the beginning of March, I thought we would have an early spring. More than ten centimetres of snow Thursday let me know that Winter wasn’t finished yet. (Sorry, I didn’t think to take pictures.) This post, From April 5, 2015, seems appropriate […]

Chasing The Sunrise

Some songs are earworms. They get into your head and inhabit your brain, whether you want them to or not That happened to me decades ago with a song that I never did hear in its entirety. It was by the Canadian band Refugee and the song is called “Sunrise in Zimbabwe.” As I remember […]

Definitely Not A Hit

Many years ago I hosted a daily noon-hour request show at Ottawa’s CHRI-FM. I had mixed feelings about it. The plus was the interaction with the audience. Radio is a solitary occupation, and those who called in with requests were a reminder that there was an audience out there, that the songs I was playing weren’t […]