Random babbles for today ( Read more... )

Books - Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Is it July yet? As far as I am concerned, this is still the entertainment "event" of the year for me. I just reread "Order of the Phoenix", and I'm more than ready to have the new book in my hands ( Read more... )

Is this for real?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8026775/

The world is becoming more and more like a Saturday Night Live skit. And not a good one, either - but one which isn't funny to begin with and then drags on and on and on...

Finally went to see the movie last night. My thoughts below ( Read more... )

I'm back from my annual attendance at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health's "Courage to Come Back" awards dinner. It's a worthwhile cause that I do support, and yet every year I feel a bit ashamed by it. Not by the recipients, but by the fact that there are people out there who have literally picked themselves up from cocaine addiction, or ( Read more... )

I was a complete and utter beyotch this morning when my car pick-up service was late - the upshot is that they didn't charge me for the ride to the airport (or, more precisely, will not charge the company), but I did feel badly afterwards. But really - it wasn't so much that there was a screw-up that pissed me off, because things happen. But when ( Read more... )

Star Wars was sold out at the time and theatre we were interested in, so we ended up shopping and Starbuck-ing instead. Oh, and since I never do these, but also since it's movie-related and that's close enough, here's this:


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In anticipation of going to see "Revenge of the Sith" tomorrow, I've re-watched "The Phantom Menace" (which I'd only seen once, about 4 years ago), and finally watched "Attack of the Clones", which I'd never bothered to see. My one sentence summaries ( Read more... )

( Politics in Canada - It's a Three Ring Circus )

I found this through Andrew Sullivan's blog - it's quite simply one of the most fascinating things I've ever seen on the Internet ( Read more... )