Keys in the Sun. Scent of the Rain
(October 1 to November 20, 2018) Monday, October 1 Landed now in the Marpole neighbourhood of Vancouver with a touch of rain after a...
Hello from the High North!
As I will be returning to the Bay area this April here are a few word highlights from my most recent collection of essays 'Critics Who...
HIRE KAEPERNICK 2040! (A STAR SPANGLED FANTASY)
Critical Jack takes a satirical look at a potential scenario should the matter remain unresolved
decades from now.
FREEDOM OF SPEECH/KENT STATE/PARIS/SUMMER OF LOVE
As we roll around to the 50th anniversary of 'The Summer of Love'(1967 San Francisco) this coming June, and Canada comes to celebrate its...
'WOMEN'S MARCH ON WASHINGTON' AND PHIL OCHS IN MEMORIAM (1940-1976) AND HAPPY VALENTINE&
The weekend of January 20-22 was an astounding show of force and protest against the Trumpian Presidency. It made me think of the power...
COLIN KAEPERNICK, LEONARD COHEN AND HUMPTY TRUMPTY AS PREZ OF WIGS
“I have now gone through the immense scenes of revolutions that the world has experienced since the time of Charlemagne; and to what...
THE TEMPLE
To those that read in on my July post many thanks. From comments on Frank Sinatra to the consideration of what it means to be a writer in...
PROTEST, THE TEMPLE AND THE MUSES
'Do I dare disturb the universe...?' T.S. Eliot 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' After the past year and a half's touring, and...