Not everyone’s a critic
A critic is a man who knows the way, but can’t drive the car. — Kenneth Tynan Earl Fowler My stint as a rock critic lasted precisely one...
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Earl Fowler
- Sep 4
- 11 min
Requiem for a record store
Drove downtown in the rain Nine-thirty on a Tuesday night Just to check out the late-night record shop Call it impulsive, call it...
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Earl Fowler
- Sep 3
- 2 min
Booting it to Wellington
John Pohl My great friend Barry M. and I were walking toward Wellington St. in Verdun one day in the spring of 2019 when the sun dipped...
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Earl Fowler
- Aug 30
- 17 min
Leave ’em laughing when you go
Earl Fowler I didn’t know George Ferguson. I’m glad I never lent him money. But I wish we’d knocked back a Guinness or two. And I...
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Earl Fowler
- Aug 23
- 12 min
Talkin’ ’bout our degeneration
Earl Fowler A famous question asked in Ernest Hemingway’s early modernist novel, The Sun Also Rises, goes like this: “How did you go...
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David Sherman
- Aug 21
- 4 min
I see dead people. I hear dead people
David Sherman I see dead people. I’m not alone. Actor Haley Joel Osment made a career out of that line in the 1999 film The Sixth Sense. ...
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Earl Fowler
- Aug 18
- 11 min
Looking through a glass onion
Earl Fowler People love to take a good story and run with it. To take an initial premise that might or might not be true and elaborate,...
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David Sherman
- Aug 15
- 4 min
No, you can't take that away from me
David Sherman In the beginning there were turntables and records -- LPs, 45s, 78s. Sounded great. But they scratched, skipped, but...
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Earl Fowler
- Aug 14
- 1 min
Coming Down From the Mountain
The dead inform the behaviour of the living even when they go early. I don my blue wedding suit and finest manners for the funeral of...
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Earl Fowler
- Aug 11
- 9 min
Yehudi and the Blowhards
Earl Fowler Aug. 15, 1974. That was the edition of the Rolling Stone magazine interview in which classical pianist Glenn Gould, perhaps...
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Earl Fowler
- Aug 7
- 2 min
SOMETHING POPPED UP
Earl Fowler I was going to do a piece on online popup ads and BUY SCOOCHIE! how the avaricious, iniquitous and unscrupulous scavenger...
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David Sherman
- Aug 4
- 5 min
Dear Juan; what happened?
David Sherman Juan Rodriguez made a paella like no other. Recipe inherited from his father. He could turn a phrase like few others. His...
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David Sherman
- Aug 3
- 6 min
Dream camouflages reality's nightmare
David Sherman Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of Blackstone, an “Alternative asset management firm” juggles more than a trillion dollars. He...
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Earl Fowler
- Jul 18
- 2 min
A Long Walker off a Short Pier
Earl Fowler As a sort of thought experiment (now available in Magnavox and Blu-ray, since we here at the Time Isn’t on Our Side Vitality...
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Earl Fowler
- Jul 15
- 10 min
Shing-a-ling said everything
Chapter One says to love her, you love her with all your heart. Chapter Two you tell her, you’re never, never, never, never, never gonna...
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Earl Fowler
- Jul 13
- 1 min
Several Storeys Above Street Level
We are undemanding when young, happy to sit on the fire escape of your building, drink coffee and listen to music. It’s easy in the early...
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David Sherman
- Jul 10
- 7 min
The Man Who Came to Talk and Talk and Talk and Talk and ...
David Sherman He wrote to ask me when would be a good time to visit. While I pondered if and when, he wrote he was coming May 26. He’d...
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Earl Fowler
- Jul 3
- 6 min
Not your father’s grandparents
Earl Fowler It’s not a mainstream trend or anything. But it’s not a freaky coincidence either. We are not your father’s grandparents. Or...
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David Sherman
- Jun 29
- 6 min
Takes a town to help you get old
David Sherman It takes a village to raise a child, but it takes a small town to foster old farts with aches and pains that match the...
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Earl Fowler
- Jun 25
- 11 min
Today’s Music Ain’t Got The Same Droll
Call me a relic, call me what you will Say I’m old-fashioned, say I’m over the hill Today’s music ain’t got the same soul I like that old...
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