Rickie Lee Jones has been receiving some recent notoriety on her newest album, The Sermon on Exhibition Boulevard. With her tour making a stop at the Danforth Music Hall — a soft seat theatre where we could reserve seats! — I snagged some seats near the front for Diana and myself.
I first starting living in downtown Toronto in 1976, so I sometimes forget that other people haven’t been around the city as much as I have. After a long day of work on Friday — when I hadn’t left the house — I suggested that we might go out for dessert. Diana, Ryan and Eric were home, and Terra was visiting.
Upon getting stuck in the traffic congestion on Queen Street West, I decided that we would try King’s Cafe in Kensington Market. A major feature of King’s is that they’re vegan. Non-dairy desserts are notoriously difficult to find. We arrived while they were closing up, and they let us in just for dessert.
Returning from Los Angeles, I was fortunate to be upgraded to business class on Air Canada. At meal service, I was surprised to find …
I’ve scheduled some New York trips around seeing Mike Stern at the 55 Bar in Greenwich Village. During the Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival, he was touring with Alain Caron — a fluid bass player whom I’ve followed since the 1980s when he came to Vancouver, touring with Uzeb. I’ve seen Alain Caron play in Toronto leading a band of his own. I ordered tickets for Andy and myself, and the day finally arrived.
In a landmark for our family, Ryan is last son to complete middle school. He received his diploma from Queen Alexandra Middle School.
With family travel schedules out of alignment this year, we left the visit to Mount Pleasant quite late this year.
Seabus delay on Flickr.
Minor delay for Seabus southbound, as tugboat pulls crane past ferry dock. Not exactly the traffic congestion that I experience on the commute back home. (Vancouver, BC) 20120507 1216
Palo Alto Farmers Market on Flickr.
Mammoth artichokes at California Avenue Farmer’s Market, with @warstrekkid nephew Kevin on an early Sunday morning. Practically everything seems organic, much sourced from Watsonville nearby. Troubles of the world seem so far away. (Palo Alto, California) 20120506 0913
SJSU fountain on Flickr.
Walked SJSU campus in anticipation of ISSS 2012 in July. Being there surfaces insights that viewing maps online doesn’t. Fountain at the intersection of Paseo de San Carlos and S. 7th St. is a landmark in the middle of campus (San Jose, California) 20120505 1543
on Coevolving on Media Queue
Subscribe to this site's RSS feed.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada License.
