"Attention…Mon Ami…Fa-Lala-Lala-La-La"
Last night, following Montreal’s disappointing game 5 overtime loss to Boston — which I got to experience in Kilgour’s, probably the only Montreal Canadiens fan bar in Toronto — my […]
Monthly Archives: April 2011
It shakes my teeth
So I was going to write this whole long thing about how hard The Pixies killed me last night at Massey Hall, playing Doolittle cover to cover on the 22nd […]
"Being able to save their life so they can live, I think is rewarding. Any of them would do it for me."
Two days ago I finished reading Sebastien Junger‘s War (amazon | kobo), his recounting of the time he spent in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan embedded with a single platoon. […]
Encore
Signs of spring: birds singing. Snow melting. Taxes. Maple syrup. Flowers blooming. Bruins/Habs. Tomorrow night Montreal will face Boston in the playoffs for the fifth time in ten years. True, […]
PBR…actually not as terrible as I'd been led to believe
It has been a weekend of decadent eating and drinking. Unlike, you know, every other weekend. Friday night we joined M2 and H2 for dinner at their sweet loft. On […]
"Few would have predicted it sixty years before, but the twenty-first century might yet belong to Europe."
I’ve done it. I have finally, finally, finally finished Postwar (amazon | kobo) by Tony Judt, having started it…I don’t know, like a year ago. I must have read north […]
Frater!
This past weekend was a rare treat: a brother visit. Brother #2 arrived Friday night and left Monday morning. In between we had dinner at Duggan’s and breakfast at Hank’s, […]
Skirl | Dan Dickinson 