Yes, indeed, I'm such a diehard Billy Bragg fan that eight days after his Toronto gig I'm still celebrating the show. Hooray for the person who posted Billy's rendition of John Cooper Clarke's Evidently Chicken Town in Toronto on YouTube! We've all had days/weeks/months/years that felt like this, ...
Still no Billy Bragg video from the recent Toronto gig but handily there are fantastic Ottawa and Hamilton clips to be seen. How I wish I'd been at the Hamilton show too! Alas, there were no tickets to be had. Jeane, Hamilton Place, November 18, 2009: The Milkman of Human Kindness, Hamilton ...
I haven't seen any clips for last night's Billy Bragg Toronto show appear on YouTube yet but if they surface I'll post them later (please tell me someone captured the brilliance of Evidently Chickentown on video!). There's a review up on Canoe if you want to hear more concert ...
Book blogger Thao of Serene Hours has created stunning mock covers for I Know It's Over, One Lonely Degree and The Lighter Side of Life and Death. * Check them out in all their gloryThanks so much, Thao! You rock. Please accept this virtual cupcake with my thanks: I adore ...
A few days ago I was sifting through files on my clunky super-slow desktop computer, deciding what needed to be saved to DVD, and discovered some mysterious stuff in the folder for The Lighter Side of Life and Death. I create a folder for every book I write and save different drafts of the manuscript ...
TV depictions of violence against women have risen dramatically in just the past five years (while violence that occurred irrespective of gender only increased 2%.) Depictions of violence against teenage girls increased by an alarming 400% in that same period. Those findings, by ...
Lest we forget ...
I saw, via Tanita S. Davis's blog, that 100 Scope Notes are repeating the fun they had with their Create Your Debut YA Cover concept. Normally I'm not a fan of memes but I love designing book covers and couldn't resist jumping into the fray with my YA own offering. This time I'm ...
We've reached that point in autumn when there are more leaves on the ground than there are on trees. Folks' pumpkins don't look quite as impressive as they did at the end of October and generally nature seems to be various shades of rust. But ...
I'm so excited to be able to share this! Introducing the cover for my third book, The Lighter Side of Life and Death: I love the colours and I gotta say, that looks like one hot kiss. Big thanks to Nicole for the awesome work she's done on this cover. And once again somehow ...
Recently Chris Spence, the Toronto District School Board's new education director, has been calling for an all-boys school to address male underachievement at school. “The real objective is to cast a critical eye on how we reach and teach our boys,” said Dr. Spence, whose 2008 ...
I hope everybody had a fun Halloween. With these chilly, short days there's pretty much no denying that's it November but I'm trying not to dwell on it. Yes, I've moved on from denial mode to distraction, which means I'll be killing even more bugs, going to see Zombieland and ...
