Left Coast Mumblings by Colin T. Paterson

1950s TV test pattern. There have been times in my 65 years on this planet that I didn’t have access to a television and somehow I manag...

CN passenger train. It was late spring in 1967 in Montreal. I was stone broke and living in a former coal room in the basement of a frat...

  Duke Ellington was once asked what he thought jazz was all about and he answered “It’s all music.” There are people who live and bre...