Nuts
When we visited Halifax last weekend we flew Porter. It’s great service and we like flying out of the island airport, so…yeah. We always fly Porter. Anyway, just before both legs (Toronto […]
Category Archives: Environment
Egregious
Everyone knows I love a good graphic, and this one (from the excellent FlowingData.com) is a particularly eye-popping example. It provides pretty clear evidence of how disproportionately irresponsible BP’s North […]
The Cove
Tuesday night Nellie and I went to see a Hot Docs screening that I’d been both looking forward to and dreading. The Cove (hot docs | imdb) has been on […]
Hummertarded
I apologize for the poor quality of these images, but I just had to show you the ridiculousness that we walked past last night on the way home from Smokeless […]
Because I will never want to buy a commemorative plate of any kind
Every time I check my mailbox — because some adorable companies still insist on sending me actual paper mail…quaint, no? — I’m amazed at the quantity of junk mail I […]
But I like it bright when I do my dog-walking…
Every night when we turn off the lights, it feels like there’s still a lamp on somewhere in our condo. The lights at Moss Park, nearly a kilometre away, are […]
Also: a year's supply of cigarettes and styrofoam!
Here’s an email I got this afternoon: Hey Toronto Star: as a supposedly environmentally-conscious newspaper, should you really be giving out free gas? [tags]toronto star, free gas[/tags]
Things I feel it's important for you to know
My favourite word for today: solipsism. No idea why. I’m sure it’s related to some kind of deep and brilliant observation that I made earlier today and shall force you […]
And more importantly, white-skinned?
So far we’ve seen two Hot Docs documentaries, and we’re off to see a third in just a few minutes. To date we’ve seen: Air India 182 (hot docs) by […]
[Journey] "When the lights…go out…in the city…" [/Journey]
OK, it wasn’t quite that dramatic — this is a camera effect, not reality — but Earth Hour was at least noticeable from our balcony. We had CBGB over to […]
