Reviewing one process of reviewing: Zero stars
Anyone who knows me and has had occasion to be with me in a location with no fixed address, where we split up and get together again later, has heard me sing th...
Author: Reay
The dodginess of reward point systems
There’s no such thing as a free lunch, as they say. And reward card systems are no exception. I can’t speak to all of them everywhere, but can say w...
All hail guitar tabs
When I was still in public school, my dad — a guitar player for as long as I can remember — offered to teach me guitar. I was years into my life-lon...
What I read this month
Way more both tried out and finished this month. Behold: ReadTriggers – Robert J. SawyerThe Dreaming Place – Charles de LintCalculating God – ...
Forward momentum
I’ve recently mentioned my looking at getting into voiceover work (he says, determined to go with one spelling for “voiceover” and stick with ...
Road trip to the east coast
My family and I are just recently back from a 2.5-week road trip to the east coast (specifically, Nova Scotia via Quebec and New Brunswick) to visit family and ...
What I read this month
Another bit of a stop-and-start month for reading, largely thanks to stopping a book I was enjoying but was on the cusp of not enjoying, then finding an unexpec...
RIP Sinead O’Connor
Just heard about Sinead O’Connor’s untimely death. She stood up for black musicians before they were officially recognized at award ceremonies. When told by her...
Data privacy starts with your own choices
I was scrolling on Mastodon yesterday — the ad-free, federated social media I went to after finally leaving Twitter and Facebook for good a few years ago ...