Out from the gloom
A quick glance through our movie collection and you’ll notice a lot of dark films. Some are really dark — horror films, thrillers, and what we now call the “child endangerment Continue Reading →
Revisions all around
Finally managed to revise my Haiku Miscellany book — turns out there was a typo in the subtitle inside the book! GAH! — I didn’t catch it with multiple readings Continue Reading →
Twelve Hours.
That’s what it took to go from this: To this: I did some other sorting in another area of the basement too, but the big focus was the craftsplosion area. Continue Reading →
57 Channels and Nothing On
There’s far more than 57 channels now, but Springsteen was right even then. TV is overflowing with crap. And yet, I still watch it because somewhere among that crap are Continue Reading →
The other F word.
In this case, F is for Feminist. I find it hard to believe that I have not written about my uneasy relationship with this word in all of my years Continue Reading →
Retro-Censorship at the War Experience Museum in London
When I heard about this on CBC this morning, I yelled at the radio. Basically, the poster welcoming visitors to the Winston Churchill’s Britain at War Experience in London, U.K. Continue Reading →
Sunday again?
The past week flew by, partly because my sleep patterns got thrown out of sync. Never mind though, I reset by Friday morning because even though I was working from Continue Reading →
Screenwriter’s eye
When I awoke this morning, I had been dreaming of the mess my van was in after trying to hastily back out of a parking space but instead entangling it Continue Reading →
Wordplay
I have Roger Ebert to thank for sharing this brilliant, dark, spoken word piece called Death By Scrabble: The title alone made me click but the words made me continue Continue Reading →
Reading someone else’s mail
I have a crick in my neck tonight because I was actually too focused at work today. For the past week I’ve been gradually transcribing a handwritten document from 1884 Continue Reading →