Foiled again
I thought had it bad last year when our TIFF box was the second-last one picked. This year we’re in the absolute last box. #19, when box #20 (of 33 […]
Monthly Archives: August 2011
The big TIFF narrow-down
Actually, not so big this year. Still lots among the ~500 movies that I want to see, but not as thick a crop as it seems to have been in […]
Nearly an island
Since last year’s camping excursion went so well we decided to take another crack at it this year. So, last weekend Nellie and I booked a campsite way in advance […]
"Don't let them tell you it can't be done."
We arrived home yesterday to news that Jack Layton, leader of the official opposition, long time head of the NDP and even longer Toronto city councilor, had lost his fight […]
Not almost. Home.
Almost exactly one year ago I wrote what was the latest in a number of blog posts about the West Memphis Three. I’ve been following their case for nine years, […]
Last night's dinner menu
And I thought the other kind of calculus was bad
Last Sunday, after a late but enjoyable Saturday evening with friends, Nellie and I were enjoying a nice lazy lie-in, like any other Sunday morning. We didn’t have anywhere to […]
TOCA
Last Friday CBGB joined Nellie and I at TOCA for dinner out, in honor of my birthday. But really, in honor of being out for dinner. We chose to try […]
No thieves, fakirs, rogues or tinkers. No skulking loafers or flea-bitten tramps.
This past weekend we partook of an Toronto tradition: braving northbound traffic to spend a night or two in nature, then braving the same traffic again heading back toward the […]
A tale told by an idiot, etc., etc.
I’m listening to both the US Congress and US Senate debate the deal to raise the debt ceiling, and shaking my head. What theatre. What grandstanding. What utter bullshit. You […]
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