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Sacramento
Hi everyone. It’s been a while. I’m going to try and get these posts going again on a regular basis. You’ve heard that before from me, I know. We’re into day 3 of a western US trip. At the moment I’m 10,000 feet above California just skirting the Bay Area on our way from Sacramento to…
Read MoreMtH #23 Relativity Speaking
MtH #23 Relativity Speaking I was feeling a little funny about the “Benevolent Universe” thing I got into a few weeks ago. “What was I smoking?” I thought, “my readers are going to mistake me for a sensitive new age guy”. After a few attempts at reworking it I thought “screw it” and resolved to…
Read MoreMtH #22 Alternate Reality
The Passage It’s like a separate universe. Ten or eleven times a year I get on our airplane de mois in Toronto, wedge myself into a cramped nook formed by the seat, my backpack and the wall of the jet and promptly fall asleep. I wake up sometimes and realize, after a puzzled moment or two, that I’m in…
Read MoreMtH #21 Little Caesar Part 2
Little Caesar Part 2 We had a house cat. An orange and white female who had been de-clawed and abandoned. We adopted her in November 2005, two years before we started maintaining the colony. Her name was Lillie. We were warned by the lady who ran the foster home that she would not tolerate other…
Read MoreMtH #20 LITTLE CAESAR Part one
I Believe In A Benevolent Universe There are those who would argue that the world is bitter, cold and indifferent to the ordeal that is our existence. That we start life by being ejected violently from the womb in a hurl of blood and mucus and end it usually, in another blast of bodily fluids. And all the trials, travails…
Read MoreMtH # 19 Rama Bama
Hi everyone I’m going to have to start calling this “MtH Weekly Maybe”. Or how about “MtH Weakly”? If I apologize everytime I miss a week or two, its going to get old fast. So I won’t. April, albeit early april, and I’m driving north from Toronto in one of those nighttime snowstorms that seem to come…
Read MoreMtH #18 Tuna Piano Conclusion
Continued from MtH #17 So the story continues. While at the doctor’s office the phone rings. Jennifer answers it.“It’s for you.”“Nobody knows I’m here.”“‘Nobody’ wants to talk to you” she replies with a tinge of friendly sarcasm.“Then why should I answer it?” I say, playing the game.“Who’s on first?” we both say in unison.I’m not sure…
Read MoreMtH #17 You Can Tuna Piano
Hello from Nashville I’m scurrying around frantically getting ready to head over to the famous Ryman Auditorium for our show here in Nashville. But I thought I’d drop a little note to my faithful readers who may be thinking I’ve lost interest in the blog. Not in the slightest. My lame excuse is that I’ve…
Read MoreMtH #16 Il y a des œufs Benedict sur vos doigts
Special Report from Buzz Food President Trump met with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last Monday in what has been hailed as a significant tightening and reaffirmation of the historical bonds of friendship and economic cooperation across the world’s longest undefended border. A “diplomatic success on all counts” was how mainstream Canadian media interpreted it.…
Read MoreMtH #15 Holy Toledo
Holy Toledo Hi everyone I’ll begin with a story about a fairly well-known and well-liked Canadian singer-songwriter named Brent Titcomb. I worked with him on and off from 1980 until the early 90s. I did most of his live shows and played on his second album. His producer, guitar player, and music biz partner, Tommy Graham,…
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