Bill C-30 is Bad.
It’s bad in so many ways… and it has to go — as much as we’ve all been having fun laughing at Vic Toews for naievely suggesting that if we Continue Reading →
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Bring on CV Dazzle.
So… the Harper government wants to make the act of wearing a mask to conceal one’s identity during a riot or unlawful assembly punishable with up to five years of jail Continue Reading →
Last of the Single Screens
One of the albums that defined my tween-hood was Styx Paradise Theater. For those not familiar with it, it was a “concept album,” that is the songs collectively told a Continue Reading →
Of Green Fees and Grilled Cheese.
In the Victoria area there are more than a dozen easily accesible golf courses — a few more if you broaden the search to the entire CRD. They range from Continue Reading →
Complexity of Meat
The next step in the current urban homesteading trend is raising animals for meat. Several cities and towns have started to look at bylaws surrounding the issue as urban farmers Continue Reading →
New and notable
While I am getting ready for WordCamp and trying to keep all the other balls in the air, I have been trying to procrastinate in a creative way — still Continue Reading →
Steve Martin, Supergenius.
(NOTE: You have to say “Supergenius” the way Wile E. Coyote does in Operation Rabbit, his first speaking appearance alongside Bugs Bunny, for the word to have its intended impact.) Continue Reading →
Best Buy? Not so much.
So, three days before Christmas finds us in our friendly neighbourhood Best Buy. We went in looking for… not sure what… but the idea of an iPad was sitting near Continue Reading →
7 Things that Should go Back in the Vault
I mock Disney for shoving its films back in the vault to create artificial scarcity but it does have its advantages. Primarily, it allows Disney to create the next big Continue Reading →
Variety: it’s what’s missing.
A variety show is, in its most basic form, a show with a regular host and a variety of “acts” often musical, comedy, magic, and animal acts. Its roots are Continue Reading →