Rusty Ring

New Year's is upon us again, and as usual I'm in a reflective mood. This time I've got the Cowboys Fringants' Ici-bas ru...

« L'être humain va toujours chercher l'horizon . C'est d'ailleurs à cause de sa conscience et son intelligence que l...

So another visit to the annals of early Buddhism has yielded a further bit of provocative trivia: subitism is very old. Possibly as old...

« Tout le malheur des hommes vient de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre. » Blaise Pascal (English translati...

July has ambushed us again, and you know what that means: another whack of rock groups. As I've explained in the past, July is ...

« Il n'y a rien de plus heureux qu'un être humain qui est devenu ce qu'il était déjà. » Le si regretté Serge Bouchard. (E...

Here's another great example of a video that adds striking dimension to the song it accompanies. Not that it isn't fine as it is; ...

« Ce qu'il faut de saleté pour faire une fleur! » Félix Leclerc (English translation here .) (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons...

My mom died three nights ago. I had been looking after her for several years, managed her home hospice daily over the last six month...

It's July, aka the Rock Moon here at the Ring, in which I share with the world my preternatural gift for naming rock groups. ...

When I first heard this on Радио Русский Рок I was astonished how similar Пикник ("Picnic") sounds to Malicorne . As I lis...

(Ah, les fois que j'ai déneigé ça. Québec, tu me manques encore.)

« Croyez ceux qui cherchent la vérité, doutez de ceux qui la trouvent. » André Gide (English translation here .)

Renaud was one of the heroes of my youth. Equal parts Springsteen and Dylan (to whom his voice bears an unmistakable family resemblance),...

To commemorate this New Year's Day 2015 I offer a meditation on the passage of time. My brother's poetry here is so powerful...