That'll teach us to not leave things 'til the last minute
Box 48 of 54 was drawn for the TIFF advance draw. Since we’re in box 30 that means we’ll be the 36th box counted, 2/3 of the way back. Could […]
Monthly Archives: August 2009
"Could you go a bit slower with the clicks there?"
Here’s what we’ve done with our last 24 hours: Went to work. Okay, well, this was mostly me. Just needed to catch up from last week and get a head […]
"Then that Cobain pussy had to come around & ruin it all."
At the end of a long work week I didn’t have much left in me last night, so we met up with CBGB at The Auld Spot for some comfort […]
Shortlisted
From the short list of 28 films we’ve now made our 1st and 2nd choices for the five films we’ll see. Here they are: The Ape (Apan) (tiff) or The […]
I'm in the weeds
Have narrowed down the list of TIFF movies from 491(ish) to 60. Nellie also got her list down to 60, and the cross-section between our film lists is a short […]
My favourite songs of the year so far (III)
Back in June I dropped my twelve favourite songs of the year so far: neko case . “middle cyclone” the von bondies . “chancer” dan auerbach . “heartbroken, in disrepair” […]
Useful anger
I’ve written many times before about the West Memphis Three. In case you weren’t paying attention, here’s the nickel version: in 1993 three teenage boys were charged with killing three […]
At least I didn't land on Bono
A few days ago Joey DeVilla blogged about the OKCupid politics test and, well…I just can’t resist a blend of politics and charts. Here’s the text the test spit out […]
He likes to annex things
Après le deluge, le rose
Since CityNews, BlogTO, Torontoist and everybody else are posting dozens of amazing pictures of the storm that slammed Toronto earlier today (and spawned tornadoes around the GTA), I decided to […]
Skirl | Dan Dickinson 