Genie In A Bottle

Molasses (slow as) I haven’t written about the “Dating Game” in quite a while. There’s a good reason for that. During my last go-round with online dating, I, against the odds, met someone special.  I wasn’t at all optimistic that a few months of interviewing people would pay off.  It wasn’t that I didn’t enjoy…

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The Cat Colony

Review March 2, 2021 After thirteen years, the group of at least twenty feral and stray cats that my ex and I managed has dwindled to just four. Some we found homes for, a few were taken by animal control, and I suppose some just reached the end of their lives. Because we captured most…

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The Shirley Years part four

In December of 1977, Shirley called me with news of a tour in Atlantic Canada starting the first week of January. Very popular in the Maritimes, she was to headline nine shows. We needed a band. I called a drummer I knew, my old friend Gary Craig and he suggested a bass player, Bob Wilson,…

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Lockdown Almost Locked Up

I have a little more time on my hands than usual like most people these days. Sometimes to amuse myself, I dig back into my past and recall some of my life events like they were movies. It takes little effort as I have a good episodic memory that can retrieve events in detail, complete…

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Return To Albuquerque

Hi everyone! If you’ve been following my blog, you might remember the story of the white knuckle flight home from Scottsdale, Arizona, early one June morning in 2017.The post is available in the archive under the “Blog” tab. It’s called “Left At Albuquerque,” and you’ll have to scroll down a ways to find it.We made…

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First Rant Of 2021

How was everyone’s holiday season? If you’re like me, it probably wasn’t very traditional. The first time in eight years that my family wasn’t together for Christmas dinner and the first time ever that we didn’t get together at least once during the week of Dec. 24 to Jan. 1.We followed the rules set out…

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Bring On Jan. 1

Hi everyone!Let me tell you what’s been going on in Heff world these past months. Beer, Sudoku, crossword puzzles and Netflix. Last February was the last time I had played a concert until Friday, December 18, when we (Gord and band) did a live stream from the El Mocambo in Toronto.I had a few “oh…

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Big News

What’s The News? I know, I know! These days it would take something like “Joe Biden Meets With Space Aliens” or “Toronto Gets A New Bus” to qualify as big news in  the Covid Trump era but this is important to me and maybe one or two other people……… A Brand New Look Soon, maybe even…

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FLEXIBILITY, A NOBLE TRAIT

I didn’t think this was possible. It’s all the rage at the White House.   “Man who have head up ass have shit for brains”  So sayeth the great Irish-Chinese philosopher Foo O’shit who was drunk at the time

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Pandemonic Pandemic

Hi everyone, I’m back! I can’t sit by and miss a perfect opportunity to call out our current batch of society’s idiots. It’s just too much fun.  Let’s get started Are You A Moron? Find out with this fun little quiz:  1. Did you, even for just a short while, believe that the symptoms of COVID-19 were caused by…

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