Joey's Readings for January 16 2017

Selection of articles I've read that I'm sharing with you. In no particular order. 1. Barbara Raue's Mount Forest picks [http://barbararaue.ca/2017/01/16/mount-forest-ontario-my-top-5-picks/] - my friend's mother is blogging in retirement and recently visited Mount Forest, Ontario. She's pick five examples of the town's architecture. I'm…

Joey's Reading for January 15, 2017

I have too many books out from the Hamilton Public Library at this time, and this means my online reading is getting scaled back. Here's some of my more interesting online readings of the best few days. 1. John Yemma of the Christian Science Monitor is always a good read…

The Army, Toronto Snow, and a Basic Training Joke

The Toronto Star ran a 18-year anniversary of Mel Lastman calling in the army to shovel snow story this weekend [https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/01/14/18-years-ago-mayor-mel-lastman-called-in-the-army-for-snow-removal.html] . While I'd generally not link to a 18-year anniversary filler/clicky story, I do wish to share a joke…

The Anxiety

It's just after 11pm, I'm wrapping a successful day and that's been part of a fairly successful week. I'm working on a few projects, many of which are not visible to readers like you, and they are progressing well. I know this. That they are not done is bothering me,…

Joey's Reading List for January 11, 2017

Selection of articles I've read that I'm sharing with you. My blog is now powered using Ghost, and I'm a quick writer in the Markdown language used by Ghost on it's backend. Hopefully, this means I'll be able to get back into the habit of sharing a list of articles…

The Levees of The Mayor and West Hamilton MPP & MP

Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Westdale MPP Ted McMeekin hosted his annual New Years Levee on Sunday at the Dundas Museum. It was an enjoyable event. I see Levee's as being about the office, not the office-holder, they are good non-partisan opportunity for everyone to engage in a civil casual dialogue, and to express their…

Hamilton Library and Free Civic Museum Passes - A Musing

It's not a new program, just one I've actually really taken note of this morning. My musing here isn't to the newsworthiness of The Public Record. I noted the Hamilton Library catalogue's option to check out a free family pass for Hamilton's civic museums for a two week period. All…

Local Music and The Radio Show

I’ll be expanding The Public Record Radio Show in the coming few months, initially, I’ll be expanding to a full hour on Wednesday, and then hope to expand to Monday and Friday as well. With the hour long format, I’ll need to add “filler content” between segments,…