I have to tread carefully. I have to speak in a whisper...Had I been a painter, had the management of the Grain Exchange lost its mind one summer day and commissioned me to redecorate their foyer with murals of my own making, this is what I might have thought up, let me list some fragments ( Read more... )

Well, fuck.

...or at least too childishly subtle for the senior partner to grasp." - Humbert Humbert

The only thing better than having a middle-aged man sitting some three feet behind you at work is having one:
a) who smells nice (on a good day, I am almost transported back to that first summer at High School Fantasy Camp)
b) whose age difference with you is a ( Read more... )

So, then. Whilst perusing Wikipedia this morning, I learned that today is the 50th anniversary of the American publication of Lolita. I suppose I could have celebrated by attempting to seduce the middle-aged man who sits behind me, but he wasn't in today, so I am contenting myself instead with posting this (even though the iconic image of Sue ( Read more... )

WINNIPEG (CP) - The Agronaughts may not have been the fastest team at the 6th annual River City Dragon Boat Festival, or the most snappily-named team, but not since the Titanic graced the Atlantic Ocean has the world witnessed such a buoyant group of seafarers. In a turn of events straight out of a Gordon Lightfoot epic, the team quickly made a ( Read more... )

I prefer to let the pictures, taken in rapid succession, speak for themselves. However - since everyone was okay - not since the Titanic graced the Atlantic Ocean have I seen such a buoyant bunch of seafarers. (And no, this wasn't a conscious abandoning of ship; I'm not quite sure how it happened.)


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You can, however, do a satellite Google Map search and stare at it instead of working, marvelling at how long the outdoor track was (no wonder I could never run it ( Read more... )

...I almost wish I had been at Keycon this year.

It sounded like fun!  Damn his influence! 

This morning, I felt good.  I felt almost thin(ish).  When I turned in profile and sucked it in, I could see ribs.  I'm not quite sure when that all fell to shit, but now I feel all...distended and flabby.  I hate that.

Indeed, far from being the cruellest month, April was a banner month for me. Very, very strange. First, my trivia team ("I Call The Big One Bitey") placed first in the biannual trivia challenge at the Children's Hospital Bazaar on April 17, and then on the 30th, my bowling team ("Shirley's Crew") won the Grand Aggregate .


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