Vox puerilis
A couple of weeks ago the CBC’s Neil Macdonald wrote a depressing (if unsurprising) editorial entitled “What America Isn’t Thinking” in which he used a Google Trends report as a […]
A couple of weeks ago the CBC’s Neil Macdonald wrote a depressing (if unsurprising) editorial entitled “What America Isn’t Thinking” in which he used a Google Trends report as a […]
Yesterday Nellie and I dragged our slightly-hungover selves to the Session 99 craft beer festival. We’d bought tickets in advance, though I’m not sure why…we still had to buy drink […]
I have edited my ‘50 best songs ever‘ list as follows. In: Beastie Boys . “Sabotage” Bob Dylan . “House Carpenter” Godspeed You! Black Emperor . “Storm” Spiritualized . “Lord […]
Last Wednesday I flew to Atlanta for a conference. I sailed through customs and security at Pearson and thought I was en route to the most effortless flight of all […]
On Friday night all we wanted to do was have a nice, simple dinner and an early night, since we’d spent the previous night on the Volo patio with our […]
Yet another great weekend in ever-so-slowly-warming-up Toronto. After another long week at the office (hark: no weekend work! well, a couple of conference calls, but that was it…) we decided […]
How to properly pronounce the names of scotches like Laphroaig, Caol Ila and Auchentoshan, courtesy of the tremendous Mr. Brian Cox. That the song “Blood and Guts” by Middle Brother, […]