"I wish monkeys could Skype."
Toronto seems to have awakened from a long, dark winter. Not a hard winter, mind you, just one that seemed never to end. But yesterday the sun came out, and […]
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Il Pleut à Mourir
A sudden, rather cool-looking thunderstorm rolled through Toronto tonight. I took some pictures and snagged some video, here and here. Check out the lightning and thunder, in the second video, […]
"But what is so outrageous is that this isn't about Pat. This is about what they did to a nation."
I don’t know why, exactly, but I’ve/we’ve watched a lot of movies this month. Being on a plane for ten hours doesn’t hurt, and I did just get a new […]
"When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. Unless you don't have any water or sugar. And then you just eat the lemons, and the rind will give you diarrhea."
Aided by a pair of 5-hour flights and some rainy weather, I have watched seven movies in the last seven days. The Hollywood Complex (imdb | hot docs) was our […]
Trip 1: 13 bottles. Trip 2: 23 bottles. Trip 3: 42 bottles. Trip 4: god help us. That looks like a logarithmic growth curve.
Right, now that we’ve sorted through the pile of bottles and survived a week of Hot Docs / illness, I can write about what a great time we had last […]
Hot Docs: How To Die In Oregon
Due to a short but bad-ass cold I wasn’t able to see either The Bully Project (hot docs) or If A Tree Falls: A Story Of The Earth Liberation Front […]
Hot Docs: Better This World
Earlier tonight we kicked off our 2011 Hot Docs festival by seeing Better This World (imdb | hot docs) in our first visit to the TIFF Bell Lightbox. The story […]
Seriously, we needed a trolley to get it upstairs
Nellie and I just got back from an overnight trip around the lake. No time to write about it tonight, nor for the rest of the week probably as we […]
