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 […]
Monthly Archives: June 2011
Session 99
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 […]
Upon further reflection
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 […]
Say it ain't so, Joe
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 […]
Asteroidea
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 […]
I am surprisingly a) not sunburned, and b) not hung over
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 […]
What I learned from Esquire this week
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, […]
