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MtH #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,…
Read MoreMtH # 14 Without a net
Hi everybody! I apologize if anyone was disappointed last weekend. I have this vision of people frantically checking the site every half hour for a new post. Wanting, needing, thirsting, for their weekly shot of air-headed foolery. I will try to make up for it over the next few weeks by being even more mind-blowingly moronic,…
Read MoreMtH weekly #13 Bring Yer Fishin’ Pole
Hi everyone I haven’t got much this week. Being the thirteenth of the MtH series it’s just as well. Yes, I am a little bit superstitious. Only about one thing though. Thirteen and its multiples. I particularly dislike 39. I’m very logical about everything else. Gord feels the same way about that number and if…
Read MoreMtH Weekly #12 Buzz Food
BuzzFood Special News Bulletin Donald Trump’s Head Blows Up It’s been reported that a 24 cm diameter section of president elect Donald Trump’s cranium was separated violently from the rest of his skull in a bizarre anatomical “explosion”. The section, with the hair still glued to it, was found intact, lodged in a…
Read MoreMtH #11 A Reason To Be Leary
Hey everybody Anyone got the blahs? The festive hoopla is over and what are we faced with? Ten weeks at least of WINTER. The Toronto area has it easy compared to the rest of Canada with the exception of extreme south western British Columbia. Travel 50 kilometres outside of the Greater Toronto Area and there’s…
Read MoreMtH#10 Happy New Year
Happy New Year everybody! January 1 is a good day to make or review your resolutions. Not start them. What I’m suggesting is really only important for a few of the annual promises we make to ourselves, like quitting or cutting back on anything habitual. Let’s have a cooling-off pause, a grace period, much like some…
Read MoreMtH #9 Christmas
Christmas No question, my favourite time of the year……………okay, don’t start looking for a punch line. You don’t trust me, I know, to make a serious comment and not desecrate it later with some flippant remark. It’s a disorder (psychological, neural, biological, genetic, take your pick). You gotta love it. Unless you work in retail.…
Read MoreMtH #8 The BS box is broken. Look out!
Infamy and Snacks There were a few things about this gig that I’ve been at for just about 36 years now ( January 24 1981 was my first show with Gord, the Mill Run Theatre in Chicago) that I didn’t anticipate. Here’s one that could be scary for some people. Because of the high profile…
Read MoreMtH #7B Exciting Conclusion
The Exciting Conclusion 72 hours later Okay, okay! Stop it! I’m being pummeled, nay, strafed, by criticism after publishing the first half of this blog on Saturday. Generally, some readers are concerned that I’m straying from the original idea which was………….I’m thinking…………ahem…………. Doesn’t matter, whatever the hell it was, some of you are thinking I’ve lost…
Read MoreMtH #7 Parenthetical 2
Hi Everybody!!! An accepted bit of practical advice to anyone who is comfortable with what Marshal McLuhan referred to as “cool” media and aspires to write with any kind of professionalism: “Be careful with exclamation marks”. Implied in this is, “Don’t use them at all”. Can you believe it?!!! Ditto for bold type. And Italics. Don’t get me started on emoticons.…
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