Tweet I’ll start from the beginning. The band Travis showed up just before two. We had finished the live broadcast for the day and I was eating my lunch in the studio. We were just going to record the interview … Continue reading
Tweet I’ll start from the beginning. The band Travis showed up just before two. We had finished the live broadcast for the day and I was eating my lunch in the studio. We were just going to record the interview … Continue reading
Tweet 1. All material in this blog for which I am not the copyright holder (audio, visual, pictorial and otherwise) is presented under the Fair Dealings provision of Canadian Copyright law. This blog does not generate any revenue. However, if … Continue reading
Tweet A speech I gave to Ryerson students in 2008 about the creation of the CBC Radio show “Q with Jian Ghomeshi.” How many of you think the CBC is a bank? I’m told you’re going to make a radio … Continue reading
Tweet This is a repost of a speech I gave to Ryerson students in 2008 about the creation of the CBC Radio show “Q With Jian Ghomeshi”: How many of you think the CBC is a bank? I’m told you’re … Continue reading
Tweet In an effort to save some much needed money, my wife decided to cancel her gym membership. The timing was right; the membership was for eighteen months, which ended at the beginning of September. We assumed that it would … Continue reading
Tweet There’s always light at the end of the tunnel. Always. Unless there isn’t, of course. In which case you’re probably not in a tunnel, you’re in a cave. Not a problem. If you’re in a cave and you can’t … Continue reading
Tweet A little something I post every year on Valentine’s Day, for reasons that will become obvious as you read this (if you haven’t read it before…) My wife Lynda is at work, seven months pregnant and enjoying if not … Continue reading
Tweet One day my wife says to me, you must be hungry, you haven’t had any supper. No no, I’m fine, thanks, I tell her. I’ll have a little something later. You really should eat something now, shouldn’t you? she … Continue reading
Tweet Last year I read an article in the Toronto Star by Heather Mallick about Robert Fulford of the National Post writing a critical review of Margaret Atwood’s latest story in the New Yorker, called Stone Mattress. The Atwood story … Continue reading