I had a plan to write a really funny post about how yesterday’s Costco trip destroyed my faith in humanity, but my neighbour restored it; and how the entire city suddenly got over their collective seasonal affectedness disorder because the sun came out and the temperature got above freezing and this was the actual, number […]
Serendipity
March 20, 2011 by 7 Comments
Do you believe in serendipity? And I don’t mean the movie, which was fine and all but lady, let me give you a hint here: if John Cusack asks for your phone number, don’t write it on a five dollar bill or in a random book or throw it away. GIVE HIM YOUR DAMN NUMBER. […]
The Hunger Games versus Harry Potter
March 16, 2011 by 9 Comments
I’ve been unwell for the past couple of days; I’ve had the cold that has been going around the kids’ school, and while it isn’t devastating, it is annoying in one of those “I just went through an entire box of Kleenex” sort of way. Yesterday was spent in a cold medication-induced fog, the kind […]
At that moment I knew. I knew the way you know about a good melon.
March 4, 2011 by 7 Comments
A while back, I read Gwyneth Paltrow’s GOOP newsletter, something I never do unless my attention is directed to it. This particular newsletter – which I cannot find archived, for some reason – dealt with how to be organized. I was particularly interested because, not to overly congratulate myself here, I consider myself to be […]
I never slept through Money Never Sleeps
February 1, 2011 by 8 Comments
The boys had a day off of school today, and it went the way such days often go: with happiness distributed like a double bell curve, peaking in the mid-morning while pajamas are still on, bottoming out in the early afternoon, and then peaking again, after some activities instigated by myself, only to start the […]
Blue Monday Cures
January 17, 2011 by 9 Comments
Today is Blue Monday, the day that is scientifically and mathematically proven to be the most depressing of the year. So let’s fight the power, shall we? If the best way to spread Christmas cheer is by singing (implied: Christmas songs) loud for all to hear, then C(x) = f(singing), then it follows that the […]
Censorship: Dire Straits, Little House, and Huckleberry Finn
January 13, 2011 by 11 Comments
Did you hear that “Money for Nothing” is now banned on Canadian radio stations? Banned! This is incredibly startling news for me, given that the song originally came out in 1985. So, twenty-six years later, it has been decided that the word “faggot” – when used by derogatory men who are moving the singer’s fantastic […]
