Soon it will be Christmas.  And once again I will play Laura Nyro’s "Christmas In My Soul". Forty years ago I was a freshman in college.  That makes me fifty seven years old.  Believe me, it’s weird.  The time does go by in the blink of an eye, but the funny thing is you remember […]

Radioactive toy Turn it up! Yesterday I got an e-mail from Lou.  Was I the same Bob Lefsetz who worked at Camp Tohkomeupog in the summer of ’71? I went to Jewish camp growing up.  Where the focus is more on the social than the physical.  And I’m not gonna complain much about that, everything […]

I love driving in the winter. In the summer you’re battling the heat.  You’ve got to drive long enough to have the a/c kick in.  You’re always trying to get cool.  But in the winter, it’s cold outside, but inside, with the sun entering the windshield you’re warmed like a piece of bread in a […]

Re: Todd Alsup I see your gay soul/jazz singer (actually a poorer version of the terrific but not yet Lefsetz-stamped Mayer Hawthorne), and I raise you a transgendered/queer songwriter from Calgary, now a man known as Rae Spoon, who blew my mind tonight in Ottawa, seeing him live for the first time. Rae Spoon There […]