I’m doing a guest spot at All My Friends (Saturday, 25 May 2013 at Parts and Labour)
I’d like you to come to the next edition of All My Friends, a club night returning to the Shop under Parts and Labour on Saturday, 25 May 2013. I’ll be filling in for resident DJ Paul G, doing a guest spot alongside fellow resident Mizz Brown. It’s the first real gig of its kind […]
Tags: All My Friends, DJing, Everyone's a DJ, Mizz Brown, my kid, Parts and Labour, Paul G
Posted in Creative Projects |
Thank you for giving a despairing post a very uplifting response
Yesterday’s post about Tim Bosma and fatherhood got more visitors and traffic than anything else I’ve ever posted. Several hundred of you paid a visit, and a few of you were kind enough to share it. I really appreciate it. I mentioned how self-conscious I was about sharing these thoughts in the first place, and […]
Tags: blogging, my kid, my wife, parenting, Tim Bosma
Posted in Friends and Family |
Tim Bosma and the most important, awful promise a father can make
I’m not the kind of guy who likes to play “it could have been me” with the headlines. It’s not that I think the people who do are selfish or callous; empathy is a tricky thing, and if that’s what it takes to put yourself in someone’s shoes, then I guess that’s okay. The story […]
Tags: my kid, my wife, parenting, Tim Bosma
Posted in Friends and Family |
“Tell my wife I love her very much.” “We don’t have the funding!”
Two Canadian institutions came plummeting back to Earth last night: the fragile hopes and dreams of every Leafs fan, and astronaut Chris Hadfield. Canadian Prime Minister and noted Leafs fan Stephen Harper didn’t have much to say about Game Seven, but he did take to Twitter to congratulate Hadfield and welcome him home. “A reminder,” […]
Tags: Chris Hadfield, Conservatives, Leafs, science, Stephen Harper
Posted in Social Action |
An early start to a long week
I’ve been up since about 5:30 AM. I’ve exercised, gotten my kid off to daycare, and mapped out the day ahead. I’m hoping to do the same thing tomorrow. The week ahead is going to be a brutal one. As it is, I’ve got a few fires to put out at the office this morning, […]
Tags: exercise, mornings, my kid, productivity
Posted in Personal |
But seriously, happy Mother’s Day
My wife has had a pretty tough month. We’ve both had a busy time at work, and she’s been sick with a whole series of contagious diseases. But through it all, she’s put our daughter first. Because that’s just what you do. We’ve both been very lucky to have my mother-in-law with us for the […]
Tags: my kid, my wife
Posted in Friends and Family |
Migrating from one iPhone to another
The replacement iPhone I had to order from Rogers arrived on Thursday. And when I say it arrived, I mean UPS deserves credit for doing the best and most competent delivery job I’ve ever seen them do. Of course, when I say that, I mean they tried to deliver it once, and then they told me […]
Help fill a truck for the Canadian Diabetes Association this long weekend
On Saturday, 18 May 2013, the Canadian Diabetes Association is asking Canadians in seventy communities across the country to make a donation through its Clothesline program. As part of their third annual “Fill a Truck” event, Clothesline hopes to collect one million kilograms of used clothing and goods, with all proceeds to benefit the association […]
Tags: Canadian Diabetes Association, diabetes, donate
Posted in Social Action |
“The music they love, stupid”
Frank Broughton and Bill Brewster have done some of the best writing on the craft of DJing that you’re ever likely to read. Their 1999 book Last Night a DJ Saved My Life is an indispensable history of DJing, but for those who want to learn the craft, their 2003 follow-up How to DJ Right […]
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Getting sick is great if it’s for the right reasons
I don’t want to get into the gross, disgusting details of the sickness that kept me in bed yesterday, but it meant I had to miss a show I’d been looking forward to seeing on Sunday night. I was halfway there, to tell you the truth, when I realized it was time to turn back […]
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