Part one of my vacation is over, and Mallory and I just got back from our 2-day trip to Kingston, Sackets Harbor, NY, and Watertown, NY. I realize that to many people reading, calling that a vacation might seem woefully over-exagerated.  In fact, most people I know who read this with sime degree of regularity have all seen huge swaths of Canada ( Read more... )

Good idea: Joel Plaskett free concert in the park on a soft lawn on a nice night.

bad idea: fuckin moron stoner kids moving in downstairs.

The Conservative Caucus is having a meeting in Charlottetown right now, and the when the media arrived, the RCMP forcibly removed the media from the premises.

Is anyone else as abhored by this as me?

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In hirsute of happiness, I have decided to grow back the beard I had for the fast majority of my post-Fanshawe years (or as those who know me best always refer to it as, and I do mean always, po-fan).  Most guys steer away from the beard, and I confess a certain relief during my Trent years whilst experimenting with goatees, van-dykes, and the ( Read more... )

The embeding I tried didn't work, so check it out here....the video which is better than happy wrapped in a taco stuffed in a lobster.

Last night, Larry King Live booked Michael Moore to discuss his new film, Sicko, a film adressing the for-profit health-care system in the United States that is built to not pay out claims ( Read more... )

Chris Benoit.  1967-2007.

I went to a (shitty) bar tonight.  "The Only", has long been the bastion of Peterborough's self-righteous, activist, exclusionary quasi-hippie community, but with a nice patio.  The service has never been good, and the atmosphere (inside) looks only slightly more sightly than the 1970's equivalent of an emo kid.  But still, something modestly funny ( Read more... )

I'm a student.  But in my spare time, things bother me.  The following people and practices bother me in ways I am too unlettered to express with any confidence: Sylvia Browne, John Edward, Uri Geller, Rosemary Altea, Allison DuBois, homeopathy, crystal kinesiology, "mediums", faith healing, astrology, witchcraft, and tarot cards.  These people are ( Read more... )