31 December 2022
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23 December 2022
Pan AKA Panther, Panorama, Pandemic, Panacea, Panache, is the oldest of the cats here and the one who has been here the longest.
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22 December 2022
Life does not live up to the hype.
Groovy Christmas. Jingle Bells, by the Electric Prunes.
21 December 2022
Hanukkah music. I was straight up trippin’ on the Hanukah miracle
I was so damn high I felt practically biblical
19 December 2022
Christmas song for Monday. Joe Pesci, If It Doesn't Snow on Christmas. (NSFW due to some language at the end.)
18 December 2022
Babe in Bethlehem I love a good English country carol and this one's got a wonderful melody.
For the first day of Hanukkah... ... I bring you
Elton Johnukah.
17 December 2022
6th Christmas Music Post. Taking Care of Christmas, Randy Bachman and Beverley Mahood.
16 December 2022
5th Christmas Music Post. And now for something completely . . . . terrible. Funky, Funky Xmas, New Kids on the Block.
14 December 2022
J&B Scotch is shite. And, marketing is meant to manipulate, but this gutted me. Well done major brand.
12 December 2022
4th Christmas Music Post. Come All Ye Faithful Surfer Girls, by the Chevelles.
11 December 2022
I need to sue the "all purpose" flour people. I launched my flour based luxury yacht. All purpose my ass.
07 December 2022
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3rd Christmas Music Post. Brian Setzer Orchestra, Santa Drives a Hotrod.
03 December 2022
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JONMC!!! (AKA HONEYPIE : ) 52 today. If I had them, I'd send rockets into the sky to celebrate, but we'll settle for cupcakes. May the next year bring good food, good books, good music, and good health. Love d'pie.
02 December 2022
2nd Christmas Music Post. Heard this on the radio the other day for the first time in years. The Waitresses, Christmas Wrapping.
01 December 2022
Went out today with people from the Street Angels group. We handed out blankets, hoodies, gloves, socks, bags, and 80 Happy Meals.
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25 November 2022
1st Christmas Music Post. No idea why, but I have had Aretha Franklin's Freeway of Love running through my head a lot lately, so she might as well start off the holiday season, with Winter Wonderland.
24 November 2022
After a shitty few days this made my night. Don't Stop Believin'
Bagpipes version.
15 November 2022
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15 October 2022
Those of you who follow
my Flickr may have noticed that at the beachfront hotel next to the apartment building where we're AirBnBing plays host to lots of
weddings and
receptions. There's another
going on today. If history is any indication, within a few hours they'll be drunkenly harmonizing to "Friend in Low Places," abd "You Shook Me All Night Long." (Two songs I love, but still). Or they might get
rained out.
11 October 2022
Cats I tells ya. I have three cats that love to snuggle up to me while I sleep.
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23 September 2022
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08 September 2022
16 August 2022
Vale scrump. There might be some intersection here between people who don't read Metatalk and people who might remember
Ashton/scrump.
14 August 2022
11 August 2022
06 August 2022
Best cat pic ever. Found on twitter.
22 July 2022
What the hell was that? I don't know but it would be nice if I never experience it again.
21 July 2022
Baby, it's HOT outside.. Worrying about all my friends and how they are dealing with the heat that is spanning the globe. Check in please!
Self: I am a cold weather person and I work in a cold room, so hot weather makes me melt. How is everyone else dealing with it?
03 July 2022
01 July 2022
How's everyone? How about an old-fashioned 3-point update? The political sitch in the US is total shit. On top of everyone being burned out from work, personal losses, and the pandemic.
THe most important thing is to stay connected with one another. Fighting despair and alienation by connecting. I hope you're all well. Despite the slow rate of posting here, there are still lots of us who check in regularly and keep these relationships alive in our hearts. Thinking of you all on this quiet night.
So, let's do a 3-point update.
27 June 2022
Walked over to see the fireworks tonight. First time I've gone alone. I am tired angry and empty all at once.
24 June 2022
20 June 2022
It was saunter day today. Got me wondering what ever happened to saunter cat?
07 June 2022
When words say where and when you're from. In probably 2002 while working in Los Angeles I went out for dinner with some friends. We were siting at a table in the bar having a drink before going into the restaurant and...
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04 June 2022
Thinking about jonmc and pips Y'all are going through a lot and just wanting you to know that I am sending good vibes.
29 May 2022
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19 May 2022
12 May 2022
09 May 2022
This made my day. (tiktok video) Not following the Johnny/Amber thing but I was alerted to this and it is great.
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04 May 2022
Stuff I did. (With music.) I had to run to a bank to deposit a cheque so I went out about 11:30 PM. On the way back to the house I passed a bar where 4 folks were out front having a smoke. Someone recognized me. (fuck)
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23 April 2022
I Think we could all use this, or at least I know I do. Here's
Bette Midler and Mick Jagger dueting on 'Beat Of Burden' in a hilarious video, where bette reveals the rock & roll soul beneath the cabaret queen persona.
/in the process of moving out exhausted but determined
20 April 2022
Ukraine Will Win - Alexander Ponomarev and others I don't understand the words but the spirit is clear.
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26 March 2022
Hey so I'm the resident buzz-kill. My wife died a couple of hours ago. She called my name. I found her on the floor. I did CPR for 11 minutes until the ambulance came.
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21 March 2022
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15 March 2022
Lights are on. Anyone home? Who is here and what are you up to? How are those around you?
...............0 (Caspar added this)
So this last month has been going on for a year or so and that kind of fits with the past couple years being both a decade long and just a couple of weeks at the same time.
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08 March 2022
In spite of everything, stuff like this makes me love the internet. Allison Smith, former Broadway 'Annie,' on
Kate and Allie (she was a co-star), in 1988 doing a (pretty good) cover of
Scandal's classic hit,
"Goodbye To You."
05 March 2022
RIP, Buffalo Butt... Johnny Brown [aka Bookman the Super from
Good Times (one othe best themes ever)]
has passed on. My childhood slowly withers and dies....
01 March 2022
Shrove Tuesday, Fat Tuesday, Pancake day, or even Paczki day. Saw a video today of people lining up to buy Paczki (pronounced poon-ski) and they talked with a family from India and a woman from China and a couple from the Middle East. Bakeries here make tens of thousands of them this time every year and these people waiting had no idea what it was about until this week.
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24 February 2022
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21 February 2022
16 February 2022
On my way into the hospital last night. Someone yelled at me from a truck something about wearing a mask. I replied with a finger and an "Ignorant cuck!". Not proud but what you gonna do?
14 February 2022
This just made my fucking day.
DO WE GET VALENTINES THIS YEAR?! Because i messaged chrismear on twitter & i have stuff to send & say
TO ALL & SUNDRY
11 February 2022
So proud and not so proud tonight. For two weeks my country, Canada has been held hostage by a small number of goons crowding Parliament hill. This week my city has been held hostage and traffic across the border has been blocked. $600 million a day in costs and people being laid off all over the province.
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09 February 2022
Catching up I realize I haven't been around her much. What the hell, Doohickie? So some stuff has happened.
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Chinese new year faux pas I posted recently about how my wife avoided a Chinese new year faux pas. Someone at University of Toronto was not as lucky.
03 February 2022
Talisman of Napoleon! Art/Napoleonic historians Pat Boon and Jack Nicklaus! Randy Jensen, “a Mensa member" (ask about his wood shaft expertise!) 1+1 = 2 = B = Bonaparte! Mathematics! $250,000,000!
02 February 2022
Jonny Zazula [aka Jonny Z] founder of
Megaforce Records, first signer of Metallica, Anthrax, Testament and Overkill, who helped start the metal revolution, has
passed on. Thanks and RIP, Brother.
*throws up horns, raises beer and cranks
THIS up high*
31 January 2022
Trip to New York city. In the 80s two boys, 10 and 13, from Dublin bunked trains, a ferry, and a 747 all the way to New York City. 30 min New Yorker documentary.
30 January 2022
26 January 2022
Laura Secord Secondary School, 1974, St Catharines, Ontario, It's RUSH! Playing for a buncha high School kids.t. Features a few soon to be classics. A real period piece.
24 January 2022
The complexities of the Chinese new year. My wife is Director of Diet and Nutrition for a home with more than 120 residents. She tries to keep things interesting by doing special things every month.
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21 January 2022
Marvin Lee Aday aka Meat Loaf,
Rocky Horror Actor*,
singer of some amazing hit songs and
collaborator with Cher has passed on. Another piece of my youth gone.
*
"...a greaser from the freezer, a bat outta hell...."
01 January 2022
Fuck life. I had some great things I was going to write here last night in response to Senyar's post but I went to bed and left it for today. Now whatever I saw good. Well fuck that.
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