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Bo Diddley Energy

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Bo Diddley Energy

Just wanted to write a quick note to thank everyone who swings by here, despite my completely shot-to-shit posting over the past 18 months. I hope 2020 brings you health and joy, and this kind of energy:

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Loving Daze

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Loving Daze

Michael Kiwanuka’s third album came out yesterday and it’s dope as fuck. I bought and downloaded it to my phone while waiting for a bus last night, and have already listened to the complete record three times and this particular song ten or more (and I’m just playing it over and over now as I … Continue reading

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Toilet seats in men's washrooms: A brief etiquette guide

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Toilet seats in men's washrooms: A brief etiquette guide

Before you start: If you’re using a toilet, as opposed to a urinal, and you wish to piss standing up, lift the seat if it’s down. If you have a problem with doing this, get fucked. The only acceptable reason not to lift is if it’s covered in urine, or something equally unpleasant. So if it’s … Continue reading

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Amsterdam, August 30, 2019

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Amsterdam, August 30, 2019

So yeah, I’ve been gone for a minute again. Things have been going on, you know? I just got back from a month of European travels, and decided to try and reintegrate this into my life, we’ll see how that goes. I’ve got some ideas in the pipeline, at any rate. Let’s start with something … Continue reading

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Did You Not See

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Did You Not See

Fun For Malakai were one of those bands that I feel could have become huge, but they never really broke out of Ottawa. They were one of the more popular groups in the pretty active Ottawa indie scene in the early nineties, when I was just starting to discover some local music, and I saw them a...

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Hey Presto!

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Hey Presto!

I meant to post the story of my travels through southern Mexico last week, but that didn’t happen. This was partly because it took longer to write than planned, partly because work, as always, spilled over into non-work hours, but it also had a lot to do with a ridiculous commute last...

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La Mesilla to Mexico City, May 15-18, 1999

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La Mesilla to Mexico City, May 15-18, 1999

“You should never have stopped, A. You’re so stupid!” We were parked on the shoulder of a highway on the outskirts of Mexico City. K was screaming at A as he tried to smooth things over with the traffic cop who had waved us over. I almost had to respect K’s game...

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Awakening Life

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Awakening Life

The space of musical possibility has many well-explored branches, but far larger regions that are sparsely-populated or entirely empty. Thus there have been tens of thousands of bands that play generic bar rock, but comparatively few that combine the didgeridoo with traditional Bulgarian songs....

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Helping the People Who Really Need It

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Helping the People Who Really Need It

Toronto has shit winters. It’s not the cold, quite the opposite. I grew up in Western Quebec and then lived in Ottawa until my late 20’s, and frankly Toronto doesn’t get that cold, rarely below -10° and usually well above that (it occurs to me that most of my readers are ...

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We're baaaack

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We're baaaack

So yeah, I just took a slightly longer Christmas break than intended. I was tired, and busy at work, and some other stuff was going on that took a lot of energy. *shrugs* I’m still tired, and busy, and have other stuff that takes a lot of energy, but what the hell let’s do this...

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They're after my minivan

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They're after my minivan

So last Thursday I stayed up working until 1 or so, then Friday I woke up at 5 because the universe hates me. Went in to work early, sat down for a minute on the couch and woke up 2+ hours later (there’s no one else in my office at present). And I dreamed a dream… My kids and I were...

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Two Country(ish) Songs About Fucking

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Two Country(ish) Songs About Fucking

I’m busy, blah blah blah so here’s another music post. As the post title suggests, they’re about that activity I hear is lots of fun. Lucinda Williams is a cool-ass singer who’s been putting out albums since the late 70’s, but really didn’t get much traction...

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A Leg to Stand On

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A Leg to Stand On

Perhaps twenty years ago, I was walking through town with my friend A, who made what money he made through the sale of produce that was, at the time, illegal. At some point I’ll write more about our friendship, as he played a pretty important role in my life, and some of the shit that went...

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Mega Satan

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Mega Satan

So I’m not even going to try and explain what all this means, most of you will have no idea what I’m talking about, but after a total of *** hours playing The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth in my life, I have now finished all achievements on all character sheets (but not all other a...

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San Ignacio, Belize - February 22nd-25th, 1999, Part II

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San Ignacio, Belize - February 22nd-25th, 1999, Part II

Part I of this story is here, if you haven’t read it yet I recommend doing so because this will be fairly incomprehensible otherwise. We biked the dusty roads back into town, the vegetation alongside us steaming in the afternoon sun. Roderick and I had agreed that I would stay at his house...

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Takao-san-guchi, Japan, January 6, 2002

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Takao-san-guchi, Japan, January 6, 2002

I’d been in Japan a couple of months before I finally got out of Tokyo and went for a hike. My trail guide suggested what looked like a nice route an hour or so’s train ride to the north, centered on a mountain called Takao-san. Of course I started later than I should have, and then ...

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Japanese River

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Japanese River

I spent almost four years teaching in Japan. During those years I got married, we had a son, we were well on the way to having a daughter, and I tried valiantly to grow up. Results of the latter were ambiguous, at best. I was teaching English, which at the time (early noughties) was still a...

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