blast from the past.

So, CBC Radio's Go! taped an episode in Halifax on Saturday, and I was in the studio audience. The occasion was the Halifax Comedy Festival and the special comedic guests were the consistently awful Bette MacDonald, the repulsive but occasionally funny Mike Bullard, and the charming and witty Shaun Majumder. There was also music from the absolutely luminous Jill Barber.

But the highlight for me was of course chatting with Brent afterwards... talking about the imminent demise of Brave New Waves, among other subjects. Of all my freelance gigs from my decade (1993-2002) in music journalism I miss my small part with BNW the most... I'll be sad to see the show go. (Nobody's said it better than Carl Wilson.)

So I've taken two weeks and some off from blogging, and it's good to be back. In the last couple of weeks I've written my final exam in my intro Arabic course, found a new mortgage... been dealing with, you know, life. But I still managed to catch a cool gig or two, saw some good movies, and thought a lot about the Dalai Lama. More about that later.

Hello, world, again.