Blow your hornSeveral weeks ago at a National Arts Centre Orchestra concert that featured Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting and Marc-André...
It all depends on what you knowDizzy Gillespie in Zagreb in 1956, with the Yugoslav composer Nikica Kalogjera in the back seat, during a State Department...
Australian rulesIs this Stéphane Dion? Some senior Canadian Liberals say the comparison is not too far-fetched . Now, obviously this business of...
Weekend Viewing: Looking and ListeningWill Dixon tagged me with this meme a week ago, and with my usual punctuality, I’m just getting around to it now: Jill Golick...
Comedy BlockingCBS’s Monday Night comedy block, whose season premiere is scheduled for September 22 , is the closest thing there is to an...
hello? roget’s thesaurus? i’d like to cancel my order of 700 synonyms for “miniscule”The author of this blog will be “on hiatus” – the English language’s fanciest words for “off loafing” – during the...
Olbie AddendumLots of good comments on my Keith Olbermann post (plus one that accuses me of hating him for being a strong liberal voice, which...
Dick Cheney is not Darth Vader, but he may be a marine crustacean.Or so it was proposed in this illuminating exchange from yesterday’s hearing of the House Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil...