William Denton

A quick pointer: “Field Trip” is a new show on CJAM, a campus radio station in Windsor, Ontario.

I like listening to radio (see my shell script for streaming online radio, Whip Radio), and I like listening to old-time radio, which is radio before TV got big.

A quote from Michael Coveny’s Guardian obituary of Sheila Ballantine (1928–2026), who was in Brecht’s The Resistible Rise of Arturio Ui with Leonard Rossiter and Alan Ayckbourn’s The Norman Conquests, among much, much else.

A good friend of mine reads a lot of work by British women writers from the twentieth century, especially the middle decades.

The Sound of Thinking: A Listener’s Companion to Conceptual Music, a new book by Craig Dworkin, has a chapter “Ut Pictura Musica” about art and music that led me to some great music that is related to my Listening to Art project (now a halfway through its…

I was interested to see Peter Rukavina note something about John Ruskin in his recent post Drawing Your Travels.

Morton Feldman tells this ancedote in a conversation with John Cage titled “The Nature and Goals of Our Music,” recorded for radio in July 1966 (dated by the mention of the death of D.T.

A quote from Miles Davis, from a clip used in BBC Radio 4’s Great Lives episode on him.

It was a nice day in Toronto today, and I was enjoying a walk along Bloor Street West near Ossington when I saw Toronto Darts & Games.

I’m reading the Accursed Kings series of historical novels (Les Rois Maudits in your actual French) by Maurice Druon, an immensely enjoyable telling of French and English royalty (and Aquitanian, Burgundian, etc.) in the early 1300s, with adultery, murder,

I have a display up at the main branch of York University Libraries, where I work.

I came across Compositor, a really wonderful site that has a huge collection of printers’ ornaments from the 1700s.

Yesterday I was at the Art Gallery of Ontario and spent a while looking at The Rose (1964) by Agnes Martin.

This is a follow-up to Exactitude is not truth.

For over two decades I hosted my web sites at Pair Networks.

Cover of What's Bred in the Bone I’m rereading the Cornish Trilogy by Robertson Davies, and in What’s Bred in the Bone (1985) I was struck by something art restorer Tancred Saraceni says to Francis Cornish in early 1939: Of course, you may become something

Recently on Mastodon I saw mention of Just the Browser, a web site that supplies tools and information to “remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances” from web browsers, so you have just the…

Notebooks get a lot of discussion in the stationery world: check notebook at the Well-Appointed Desk or notebook reviews at the Pen Addict, or the whole Notebook Stories site..

I installed KDE Plasma as my desktop environment on an old machine that was getting refreshed, and tried Konsave to copy my KDE configuration from my main machine.

This year I reread, as usual, books by Georgette Heyer, Rex Stout, P.G.

To my delight, an introduction I made for Framework Radio was used in last week’s episode: Framework #952: 2025.11.23.