A system that was designed to protect property interests cannot be applied to situations of domestic violence without extreme adaptation ( Read more... )

1. I found out I can cook just as wellover a campfire as I can over my stove at home. My popularity among my canoeing friends has skyrocketed ( Read more... )

It was suggested to me by pipesdreams at the launch of a book which I would like to read but cannot afford in hardback that I post more often ( Read more... )

Today after school I walked to Kensington and bought a kilo of sawed-up goat to make curry. Also apples and parsnips and rasins and carrots. Cause curry is what the apostles ate while they waited for the Christ to ressurect. It says so in the gospel of Hassim. Or possibly that's just my nose out of joint because the guest speaker in my policy ( Read more... )

Carol Off (*incredulous*): How do you hand a former prime minister [Mulroeny] three hundred thousand dollars cash?

Karlheinz Shreibner (*discreet*): In an envelope.

Karlheinz Shreibner (when pressed further, including questions about the denominations): I put the envelope on the table. He folded a newspaper over the envelope and picked it up.

Does anyone want to come and see The Overcoat with me? friday March 09? 8 pm, $20. Cheapseats are fine b/c the theatre is v. small.

www.canstage.com

Since I have to get up bright an early to stand around in the Humber River counting fish, it makes perfect sense that at 1 am I should be lying in bed staring at the numbers on my clock. That gets boring after an hour and a half, though, also I was pretty hungry. So I got up and made toast and tea and broke out the algebra (over which I had been ( Read more... )

The Toronto Police is one of the English-speaking world’s oldest modern municipal police departments; older than, for example, the legendary NYPD which was formed in 1845. In 1835, Toronto retained five fulltime constables-a ratio of about one officer for every 1,850 citizens. In 1837 the constables’ annual pay was fixed at £75 per annum, a ( Read more... )

Heard this evening in a CBC C'est la Vie interview:

The worst thing in the world for a playwright, or anyone else who works in the theatre, is to hear the people leaving the performance talk about the weather.

-Michel Tremblay

I have written my very last test of the year and it went pretty well. Assignments, lab reports & essays remain but Bah. The year is almost over. I am eating paella made by myself and drinking ale. Among my self, friends and family, there are helathy new babies, lovely new houses, and fun summer trips afoot (self excluded from babies and houses ( Read more... )