The second symphony
Near the beginning of the pandemic I backed a new kickstarter project by someone I’ve followed on Twitter for quite a while named Matt Brown. I used to listen to […]
Somm
A few years ago, on a flight to London (which seems as exotic as a rocket ride to the moon now) I watched the third installment in a documentary series, […]
Berks!
After several years of reading few books, if any, I’m making an effort to get back to it instead of spending endless hours reading only feeds & tweets. Since wine […]
2021 Annual Report: Outbreak
This is how I ended my annual report post from last year: Things won’t suddenly snap back to normal tomorrow morning, but I feel like there’s hope on 2021’s asymmetrical […]
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The best of everything from 2021
And I thought these lists were hard to put together last year. At least in 2020 most of the world had ten good weeks before things melted down, something 2021 […]
Xmas 2021
Well, we made it to Nova Scotia. We thought hard about not going, given Omicron, but decided NS was a better place to ride things out than Ontario. After a […]
Probably my favourite TV moment of the year
.:. Also, do you think they rewrote the last episode to include some details from the whole Rogers fiasco? Please let it be yes.
“You British don’t have a monopoly on snobbery, you know.” “Well, not a monopoly. More of a controlling interest.”
It seems that all my outings last week led to me getting sick. Not with COVID, but with the bug that appears to be going round. I took most of […]
It’s the most gluttonous time of the year
As Toronto has become more and more double-vaxxed, work dinners are starting to become a thing. Especially during the holidays. I was out twice this week: once at Harbour 60 […]
That only took 46 years
For the first time in my life I’ve bought a car. I managed without one for a very long time — always living downtown, usually near wherever I worked, taking […]
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