"Santino! Klaatu barada nikto!"
I swear, I didn’t mess with the camera or the image file at all. Either my new camera does eyes badly or my cat is, in fact, Gort. Whatever. Time […]
Monthly Archives: December 2007
My favourite songs of 2007
The National . “Fake Empire” Arcade Fire . “Intervention” The Besnard Lakes . “Devastation” Rogue Wave . “Harmonium” Grinderman . “No Pussy Blues” Vampire Weekend . “Walcott” Matt Pond PA […]
We're taking breaks only to eat, pee and buy fresh batteries for the remote
We are movie-watching machines. We finished off the batch of four movies I rented on Friday and picked up four more. We watched the very troubling and very authentic-feeling This […]
Who did this poll, Band of Horses?
This news release presents a conundrum: Toronto, ON – A new Ipsos Reid poll conducted on behalf of CanWest News Service and Global Television finds that while two thirds (66%) […]
"I can't become king if someone else already sits on the throne."
In a belated attempt to see more of the best movies of 2007 (as ranked by critics anyway) we rented four movies yesterday in preparation for a lazy cinematic weekend. […]
She rolled her Rs…her beautiful Rs.
I just got off the elevator with a mother and her little girl. The girl saw the elevator button marked “R” (which opened or closed the rear doors — we […]
Like a thief in the night. Actually, it was exactly like that.
Well, some joker got hold of my credit card number last night and used it to buy a bunch of stuff online. Mainly kids things, probably all highly fence-able. Luckily […]
Happy anniversary to me
At this very moment four years ago I was probably doing some boxing day shopping with my father and brother, and was seven hours away from making an honest woman […]
Because it's that time
December means best-of lists. I’m starting with what I considered to be the best albums of 2007. In past years I’ve pussied out and not ranked them; not so this […]
My brain and eyes might just explode
Yowzah, that was quite a morning. I guess not going home this year freed us up to purchase some bigger-ticket items for each other (which we normally wouldn’t want to […]
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