A brand new low

No kiddies at the door yet and it’s making me nervous that I’m going to be stuck with a huge bowl full of candy all to myself. Crap.
I’ve always thought internships were an easy excuse for news organizations to engage in slave labour under the guise of giving the up-and-coming a taste for the “real [...]

Home-grown gore fest

You know a horror movie has to be good when during the premiere screening, one of the audience members leaves and passes out in the lobby.
What’s funny was that the person in question was one of my brother’s friends and the MC had to get up on stage and ask that he attend to the [...]

Plastic bags

“In the shadow of the tower, he watches them pass by. His foot taps the ground nervously and then his eye catches this movement and he’s fixated on this tapping as if his foot is acting of its own accord. Next to him on the ground are several plastic bags, filled with what few possessions [...]

Sad, but probably true

I just heard a funny quote on CBC Radio’s Sounds Like Canada:
“We’ve got kids these days with the strongest fingers and thumbs, but the rest of their bodies have gone to pot.” (Dr. Richard Beliveau, author of ‘Cooking with Foods that Fight Cancer’) 

Grand Central Terminal

“… As with most New York places, it’s a continuous ebb and flow of bodies here. The hurried ones move from one archway across the great hall to another, no time to stop, their train or subway already located in their minds and their feet busy to catch up with it. Tourists, or those lost, [...]

You take a 10-month hiatus…

… and half the bloggers you used to know have closed shop and disappeared! In brushing the cobwebs off this site I discovered most of my blogroll needed to be chopped and discarded. The realization gave me a sad feeling, comparable to what you’d feel if you realized as a result of your own neglect [...]

Nothing this program can’t do

It used to take me hours with a pencil and sketch book to create a half decent replica of scenes like these below. Tack on the time it would take to fill in the water colours and you’ve spent half a day doing what Photoshop can do in one hour. Of course, I can’t cherish [...]

The candidate’s best friend and worst enemy

Not sure if this will translate into any real loss of support, but I bet it’s given Hillary Clinton’s staff a bit of a headache.
Says Peter Paul, co-producer of the video, on the charges that Hillary Clinton underreported campaign contributions to the Federal Election Commission: “It’s up to the people on the internet to break [...]

Wasn’t this a movie?

… and in the movie the comedian won. Well, it was a computer glitch that caused him to win — and we all know the American ballot system is much too infallible to let that happen.