Lemurian Congress

At the end of the 1948 movie " The Snake Pit ," our newly-sane heroine tells her heroic doctor that she knows she has recovered he...

After leaving The Grey Yonder , some friends and I moved into The Radiator House. This was just across the street and much nicer than the pr...

Remember me saying that "Everything went smoothly with Bell Canada during my move?" Well, not quite everything, it turns out. Toni...

I am absolutely DETERMINED to keep my house in tip-top shape. Since I've moved in I have been developing routines for everything that re...

UPDATE: After you read this, check out my "two months later" review . I'm saving money, right? I've got a mortgage and new...

My Canada Day song contribution is one just finished from 2005 called "Think." It really IS sort of appropriate to the day, as it ...

After almost two weeks of a really bad cold, on Tuesday I started feeling really good...I was getting healthy again! That night I caught the...

I'll watch any science DVD that comes my way, and I have a special soft spot for shows about space. Anything that helps me get a grasp o...

I noticed last night when I came home that Zsa Zsa wasn't sleeping on my bed, like she normally does. Instead she sat halfway under the ...

The Broken Computer Keyboards I recently noticed that the "plus" key on my new computer keyboard didn't work. Apple promptly s...

During the blizzardy winter of 2008 Jenn Wilson and I made a plan: we would go to Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort and take pictures of me ...

As a constant and unrepentant pedestrian I suppose it's inevitable that I get hit by cars every few years. This morning I was hit for th...

Oh, jeez. For the last few days my cat has been demanding food at 5:00am. I have ignored her, locked her out of my bedroom, and given her a ...

Sometimes -- for chemical, psychological, social, and environmental reasons that I can barely understand -- I find myself feeling SO BITTERL...

On Monday night I attended the weird spectacle of Henry Rollins in Kitchener...almost as weird as Elton John in Kitchener, which happened o...

If you find yourself watching the bonus "Torchwood Declassified" DVD in the season one box set, set up the booze and follow these ...

When I was getting ready for work this morning I noticed that my kitchen floor was awfully cold, but I had so many other things on my mind t...

Coda. Yes. I'm furious about the recycling bin thing. Maybe this second, useless post will help diffuse my frustration. And if you don...

A few months ago the Ontario Powers That Be declared that empty bottles of alcohol were redeemable for a deposit. Whereas before you just re...

Maybe this shouldn't shock me -- I tend to move in a very educated, socially-capable, easy-going crowd -- but twice this past week I...