I was recently approached by the lovely Amanda Burt about Toronto’s conceptual art-party Santa Cruz making its way to Montreal. Piqued mostly by the idea that I could spend an evening with the lovely Miss. Burt, I of course agreed. I suggested, however, that I felt “too old for such art-house shennanigans,” but also was [...]
The problem of navigating through Ontario is that invariably some large body of fresh water gets in the way. Adding hours to any journey, driving around lakes and rivers is scenic but frustrating. Mainly the problem is that they haven’t built a direct route from, say, Montreal, Quebec to Wiarton, Ontario. We’ve come up to [...]
Read this today and was simultaneously “WOW!” and “WTF?”
Experts unveil ‘cloak of silence’.
Thought the idea might help get through the weekend.
PS - And here’s something to look at: Prada Resort 2009. Faves? From the slideshow: 7, 12, 18 is FIERCE, 22 is hot, 23 would work fantastically with some eccentric horn-rimmed glasses. Now only if [...]
…not that it’s completely dead or anything. But the amount of laptop time I permit myself per day is limited, and with the addition of Facebook to my online routine, there’s just less time for blogging. I mean, this blog should be enough of a window into my life: does it really need to be [...]
I think I’ve heard of this before: that our brains link certain events, and that sometimes doing one thing will remind us of doing another. Every time I make a coffee in the morning, I always think of two separate things. We use this mini Krups espresso maker that was a housewarming a gift from [...]
A series of recent events caused me to realise that they should create a variation of the term “grupster” that incorporates the word “nerd”. While “negrupster” connotes a black grupster, and “grupsterd” sounds like it belongs in a toilet, I contemplated “grerdrupster” before giving up on trying to pigeonhole my already complex identity any further. [...]
Driving has made me consider the world in a different way, and that not having driven for the first third of my life has allowed me unreserved psycho-spatial perception. My surroundings as a driver, now, are definite and rigid: thoughts must be controlled and while thinking and driving could be considered as multitasking, the differ [...]
Lists are fun to read when you’ve been reading your smart magazines all day. Here are three lists-like pieces I read recently that were entertaining:
Five Gadgets That Will Make You a Superhero on Wired.com. ‘Nuff said.
The Hater’s Guide to Summer Fun on The Onion’s AV Club. The Hater is generally good for lists. I [...]
Here are the two magazines we currently have subscriptions to:
STUPID: Vice magazine. Duh. Since I wrote for them for free years ago, they started sending me this free subscription, which never stopped. I don’t mind really, because I just read it while gawking and gasping and thinking: “This isn’t funny anymore.” I think of it [...]
In response to my blog post Playing the Record for People, CBC Radio 3 got in touch with me to talk about our approach to music listening. You can listen to the interview here, and comment, if you like, about the sad state of today’s deluded music industry.
Also, in the media, Mange ta ville [...]
