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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 […]
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 […]
An End To Fear
Times have changed. You can’t watch it on television anymore – unless you are an Apple TV subscriber. But for 50 years it was a broadcast television staple at this time of year. A Charlie Brown Christmas is based on the Peanuts comic strip that became popular in the 1950s. The strip was a cultural […]
And In The News…
It is Friday. which is the day the New York Times puts a news quiz online. Eleven questions on events of the past week. I’m sure there’s a reason there are 11 questions, not 10, but I haven’t asked. I make sure to take the quiz each Friday, to see how well I have absorbed […]
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