Unthought of, though, somehow

A 1930 photo of Joyce in the arms of her maternal grandmother, Anorah. My Aunt Joyce's life, which began over 95 years ago in an East Lo...

Last week came the shocking news that David Johansen has been privately battling stage 4 cancer for a decade and a brain tumour for the past...

Soft Machine founding member, keyboard player Mike Ratledge passed away last Wednesday at the age of 81. Although he left the band as long a...

My abject despair, towards the end of 2024, at being informed that 'Bluffer's Guide to the Flight Deck', the debut LP by Flotati...

In May 1994 I flew to New York for the third time to stay with my cousin and her husband. In later years whenever a trip to the Big Apple wa...

In my mind, this series is a relatively recent, if not altogether regular, feature on the blog. Of course nothing has been particularly regu...

My online presence has been lower than ever during 2024, which I'm sure has helped me to end up in a better place mentally than at any t...