its been a short while since posting, and the reason for my not posting lately largley surounds a book in our store which is about lame blogs, and the mundane things in said blogs.  With that in mind, here are somethings I did recently:

Went to Midland with Mallory. Next day went to a book expo in toronto, met several authors (William Gibson, James ( Read more... )

Happiness is:
1) 2 wonderful months
2) Passing all your courses when you were terrified that you might fail one of them (I'm looking at you, 3rd Year World War One course!)
3) Finally being able to sit outside comfortably in the sun on your front patio reading Neil Gaiman, Christopher Hitchens, and Kurt Vonnegut
4) Having your wonderful girlfriend take ( Read more... )

It's often debated as to whether or not there is a liberal or conservative bias in the media.  There is, on both sides, and that's obvious.  But what seems to NEVER get mentioned is the middle-class/Ruling Class bias behind the stories, features, and op-ed pieces.  Newspapers, newscasts, and even news blogs all assume that everyone is living at, or ( Read more... )

I like playing around with google maps.  I sometimes take a few minutes to manually look for world monuments (such as the Statue of Liberty, CN Tower, and the Great Pyramids), or just for curiosity's sake, I'll look up directions to and fro.  Today after work, I was curious how far the trip from here to Vancouver would be, and I laughed very loudly ( Read more... )

In a country as geographically vast as Canada is, I cannot help but wonder why our governments have not developed a high-speed train system.  Once upon a time in the 1980's, Toronto and Montreal mayors organized an express train run between the two cities, but it fizzeled out by the end of the decade.  France, Germany, Italy and Japan have all ( Read more... )

No shit.

Christopher Hitchens:  you are my new asshole-hero. You might be the British Hunter S. Thompson, and the media needs more truth-loving jerks like you.  It is enormously refreshing to hear someone who is utterly unafriad of the rules of civility in the name of academic honesty, no matter how much the truth might hurt someone's feelings.  He's an ( Read more... )

I'm pissed.  For a few reasons, which I'll tell in brief.

Firstly, the conservative government is proposing to introduce 22 new seats in parliament: 10 in Ontario, 7 in B.C, and 5 in Alberta, in order to "reflect canada's growing population".  I'm weary and very suspicious of this.  The government has not named specifically where these seats will go ( Read more... )

Since churches don't have to pay taxes, then they shouldn't be able to call the fire department next time they catch on fire. 

I wonder how many ugly children are kidnapped each year that we don't hear about on the news.