Another year done already? Craziness! As per usual, I’ve been taking in all the music I can reasonably get and adding songs to this year’s playlist (now sitting at exactly 100 songs from this year) as well as my ever-growing, various playlists for myriad purposes.Want to chill and read? Got a playlist for that.On my…
Well, that’s better… This month I decided to try going with the If You Can’t Beat’em, Join’em approach to reading. Rather than struggling to find/invent time to sit and read, I instead took advantage of using some of my busy time to listen to books instead. I just put up a blog post talking about…
While I’ve written previously about bumps in the road to enjoying audiobooks and my take on that score hasn’t changed, I have to say, when they work for me, they really work. Anyone who’s a regular reader of this site will have been lulled half to sleep lately by my monthly What I Read This…
It’s been an interesting Movember this year. For those not in the loop of the growing (ha!) movement, Movember is an organized event wherein anyone who can grow a moustache is encouraged to do so over the month of November, in order to help raise funds for men’s health research and care. One can work…
Seven years ago, Chester Bennington, the charismatic lead singer of the hugely successful alt rock band Linkin Park, killed himself. He had a history of depression and substance abuse, and had been deeply affected by the suicide of his good friend (and alt rock god) Chris Cornell two months prior. I thought, as I believe…
It was increasingly disheartening for me, as it was for millions (probably billions), as the numbers rolled in on the U.S. election night. I’d heard about the “red mirage” — the tendency for Republicans to do well early as the polls are reporting results, which can give the illusion that they’re racing to easy victory…
… or more like What I started to read but put down in favour of something else, which I then also put down, and so on, and so on, and so on… am I right? … though that doesn’t lend itself to a great headline. Here’s how October worked out: Read(Ha!) Started and stoppedCrow Winter…
I’ve opted to ditch the Isolation Day count for new games we play, given we’ve been out of isolation for a while now so using that metric doesn’t make particular sense any more. At least for now I’ll be rolling with “New game” titles on these posts. Here’s hoping this is the first of many….
For those not into progressive metal music [glances at most family and friends] who may not have heard of the band Tool, here’s the scoop.*. When the world lost the drumming and lyric-writing brilliance of Neil Peart a few years ago, I was a bit adrift for some time about who else to look up…
The new playlist at the LCBO for this period is very blues heavy. Now listen, I like the blues just fine. At no point will I hear any blues song on the radio or streamed somewhere and wish someone would just turn it off or change it to something else.But given the choice, blues also…