January 2007
4 posts
Book tag
I’ve apparently been tagged by Daorcey for “Book Tag,” which goes like this: 1. Grab the nearest book 2. Open the book to page 123. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences along with these instructions. 5. Don’t you dare dig for that “cool” or “intellectual” book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just...
West and back again
And just like that, I’m back. A week at home, seeing family and friends, and this morning I arrived back on the East Coast. I took a red-eye flight, a term which I never quite understood, but I suspect if I took a few minutes thinking about it — or on Google — I’d have an answer. It’s the second time I’ve been on an overnight flight like this. The first was when...
how's about that weather today, eh?
I wrote a story recently about the warm winter and whether it would change our Canadian identity, assuming that it’s shaped to some degree by our relationship with the weather, either by how it directly affects our lives (recreation, survival, toques) or the fact that it’s all people talk about. Now, the warmer weather affecting our identity in any substantial way? Perhaps, but I...
Art school
Like writing an old friend or a distant relative, the longer I wait the longer I want to delay logging in to update this. Semi-daily updates can be forgiven for being irrelevant, but the first in two long months, well — you get the idea. Which explains a number of previous posts that were, by even the most generous standards, pointless. Here is a picture of an old car. This picture was on...