Lemurian Congress

I rarely throw down a book in disgust, but after twenty pages of "You Had To Be There" by Robert Collins I feel like tossing it in...

I had extremely low expectations of " Survivors ," mainly because it was created by Terry Nation. I associate Nation with some of ...

Poetess Patience Eden nails it in this May 17, 1930 poem in The New Yorker: "Life's Problems." When I was twenty-three I could...

In response to my " Plane in Every Driveway " post, pilot-friend and musician extraordinaire Chad Faragher had this to say: Cool...

Too often when I review a book I say "It wouldn't qualify for the Oprah Book Club!" Besides making a backhanded swipe at Oprah...

Last week a Grade 12 student asked me to write a mini-essay about "homophobia," so she could read it to her class as part of a pro...

Three hours in the urgent care clinic, confined to a room full of coughing people, one heartbreaking baby girl who wheezed terribly while cr...

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...

I just stumbled across something called "Dance Heads." Maybe everybody's already been exposed to this gimmick...it's a boo...

Saturday morning. I'm at my favourite breakfast spot, and a huge group of people are throwing a "going away party" for a husb...

Hey, I'm older than I look (I hope!) Somehow I can't handle a full week of Open Ears concerts while still holding down my 9-5 job. S...

Somehow, during the early '90s, serial killers became cool. American Psycho , Natural Born Killers , Kalifornia , Silence of the Lambs ....

I'm loving the way a bunch of right-wing pundits have been threatening lately to "Go Galt." At first I was worried that they ...

I have mellowed with a lot of my earlier criticisms of Facebook use, but I still consider these four commandments to be self-evident and inv...

Workmate Henning sent me this video today. It's word-geek and lexicographer Erin McKean pondering the future of "The Dictionary....

The party is finally picking up. The smiles have become manic, toothy, like the grins of boxing fans anticipating a particularly good fight,...

Tomorrow night's another Club Renaissance "Glamourspunk Night," and in a quest to find new songs to perform I've finally t...

I love my web stats. They tell me exactly how people find out about me, and compile for me all those words that I should use more often in o...

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...

Another wonderful thing I read this morning was a quote by Ed Abbey : Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. I th...