Happy Thanksgiving all. 𝑌𝑒𝑠, 𝑚𝑦 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠, 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑠𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑂𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑑𝑎.

When newly-elected Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson started converting car lanes to bike lanes in 2009, pundits claimed it was political suicide. In 2018, he stepped down after three terms as the longest-serving mayor in the city's history. So what can this tale teach us about so-called "bikelash"?🧵

Save the Date: 2:00 pm November 11 for the Cantabile Singers of Kamloops annual Remembrance Day concert, including the premiere of selections of my recently composed 𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑎 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑜 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑖𝑠. Tickets from app.ticketowl.io/aMMPbR3qectC...

Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. This day honours and remembers the children who were forced into Canada's Residential School system. It was first observed as Orange Shirt Day in 2013 and was elevated to a statutory holidy for federal workers in 2021.

“Twelve years after his father went missing, a B.C. man is leading the push for an emergency alert system for cases of missing seniors with cognitive impairments.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... - CBC British Columbia #BCNews #Coquitlam #MissingPerson #MissingSenior

Well. I managed to burn myself making mac & cheese tonight. Dinner turned out great, but I have a large red patch on my stomach from splashing myself with boiling water. I didn't latch the pot lid when straining the pasta and KERSPLASH!

It's a not-so-abstract rendering of part of her form...

It wasn't a secret but I also wasn't shouting it from the rooftops either... After last season I stepped down as the music director of Cantabile Singers of Kamloops. Why? I just wanted to sing. Last night was our first rehearsal of the new season, and I was one of the guys in the bass section.

It's NOT gay marriage! It's just marriage! It's NOT female CEO! It's just CEO! It's NOT African Canadian ! It's just Canadian ! We're all equal and F*%^ everyone who tries to divide us 🫶 Love and equality are non-negotiable❤️

Ah yeah, September's here which means Kamloops Community Band is back!

I'm having a lovely cuddle with Molly. She's having a nice little nap. Suddenly she bolts awake and gives me this huge stink-eyed glare. I didn't quite manage to get the full-on anger, but she was still mid-glare as I got my phone out. Shortly after, she had her face buried into my leg again.

For a while when I needed to do something creative but didn't have time to write, I'd open up a software synth and have fun making a new patch. I decided it was time to start doing something with them, & have been listening to a lot of ambient music lately, so I'm starting to make ambient tracks.

A tale (tail?) of 2 cats on their trip to the vet. Molly The Bold immediately explores, while Arthur The Cautious hides in the pet carrier.

VIDEO: Coquihalla motorists capture footage of ferocious wildfire flames The last few vehicles through the Juliet Creek area before #BCHwy5 was shut down witnessed quite the scene. Click to watch ⤵️ www.kamloopsbcnow.com/watercooler/...

Man of Tomorrow. In theatres July 9, 2027

The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)

Interesting day today. First, I found myself in a delightful situation to pick up a pair of studio monitors for an amazing price from someone who treated them like gold, then when I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to set them up I'm presented with a steal of a deal on some speaker stands.

Head on up to the TRU Night Market tonight! We'll be there singing up a storm. Well, hopefully not 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 conjuring a summer storm... You know what we mean. 😜 We should all have arrived from various dirty day-jobs and be ready to sing by 7 pm. See you there!

I thoroughly enjoyed the new Naked Gun movie! I have not laughed that much in a movie theatre in a while.

Molly cuddles are the best way to spend a Sunday. I love how she smooshes her face into my leg. ...she also has the pokey bits of the murder mittens ready to sink into my calf if I dare move. 😜

The full demo for my recently composed 𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑎 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑜 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑖𝑠 is finished. It's always an interesting experience working with a new tool & the Hollywood Choirs sample library certainly presents a lot of opportunities for learning new things. Please let me know what you think. youtu.be/Yj66IazrHRM

Working on a demo of my 𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑎 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑜 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑖𝑠 with the Hollywood Choirs plugin. It's a learning experience that has greatly increased my appreciation of real live human performers. But hey, it sounds better than the synth choir AH sound, so there's that. Enjoy a sample of the Agnus dei movement!

A fun night of entertainment. We went to see This Is Spinal Tap presented by the Kamloops Film Society, then came home to watch a very ridiculously fun episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

Such a fun episode, I haven't been looking forward to the Ups and Downs as much for a while.

This month ends w/these 2 holding it down for comic book movies. Reminder:DC & Marvel being successful movie-wise is good for everyone especially fans of DC,Marvel,& Comic Books in general.

Good grief. Believe what you believe, and let others live their lives. 𝐍𝐎𝐁𝐎𝐃𝐘 has a reason to tell anyone that they need to re-think their beliefs.

A new friend in a Discord server I'm in asked for an explanation as to why we have 3 different minor scales, so here is my quick explanation. youtu.be/Mmo4oiQ3jIE?...

I love that I'm getting e-mails from Zoom asking me to come back to paying for a pro account. Guys. The COVID-19 pandemic is over, I don't need it anymore. It doesn't matter how "amazing" the deal is. It just amuses me.

Absolutely loved #FantasticFour!

Keep PoiLIEvre out of Parliament.

“A teenager was released from jail and dropped off at a Kamloops homeless shelter hours before he took his own life on Wednesday.” demand a coroner's inquest. www.castanetkamloops.net/news/Kamloop...

Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return

This six-movement requiem explores the emotional and spiritual journey from grief to peace, blending choral textures with a subtle piano accompaniment. www.ryan-noakes.com/works/missa-...

Well, it was a lot of driving going down to Richmond to see the movie in IMAX and then coming home again, but we had a great time and thoroughly enjoyed #Superman!

12th anniversary road trip adventure time!

Vernon production company looking for film extras #VernonBC

Ah, I see we're back to the "our fentanyl comes from Canada* and you must act to stop it**" routine *It doesn't **Canada already has