Saturday was Gun Appreciation Day in the States, and it went about as well as you might expect. Launched by second amendment aficionados in response to the threat of new gun control measures, Gun Appreciation Day fell two days before both the presidential inauguration and Martin Luther King Day. Some people took offense to this, […]

Hey, need a little trick to help you remember to take your vitamins? Put the jar in your medicine cabinet, or on your bathroom shelf, and make it part of your morning routine. Soon, remembering to take your vitamins will be as easy as remembering to brush your teeth! And hey, need a lite trick […]

I like to get a lot done in a day, and in order to help myself do that, I tend to keep a long list of regular jobs within reach. Most of them are simple tasks or habits I’m trying to develop, like “water work plants,” “check Facebook birthdays” or “click Hunger Site links.” There’s […]

It doesn’t take a new parent long to learn that it’s not a question of if your kid’s going to throw up all over you, but a question of when, and how often. The chalkboard in our kitchen, for example, read “10 days without a puking” until about an hour ago. There’s no way to […]

The Hoole Ice Memorial is a small tombstone in the UK. It reads: “In loving memory of George Goodfellow, aged 11 years and Henry Berry, aged 8 years, who were drowned by falling through the ice trying to save a fellow playmate at Hoole on January 17th 1905.” It’s an amazing story, but it’s also […]

When I told you that my brother is now writing for This Hour Has 22 Minutes, I said it was “the latest and biggest in a recent wave of major achievements.” Also on that list is SPANK!, a musical Fifty Shades of Grey parody that’s been enjoying sellout runs on stages across North America, including […]

It’s quarter after midnight, and I’m posting this from the floor of my half-asleep daughter’s bedroom, while she enjoys a late night bottle. A few days ago, at my wife’s suggestion, I started waking my daughter up between eleven and twelve to give her a feed. She’d gotten into a routine of waking up at […]

Holy moly, you guys! After years of honing his craft in the Canadian comedy trenches, my brother is now in the middle of a two-week contract writing for This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Tonight’s show will feature a sketch he’s written, which will be his first for a national TV broadcast. Sure, this isn’t the […]

For quite some time, I’ve been meaning to give this website a total overhaul. It’s nice to have a crummy little blog, but there’s a whole lot more that I could, and should, be doing with a site like this. Unfortunately, because I let myself get paralyzed by the possibilities, it took me too long […]

My wife has decided to take a break from Twitter. Spare time is a precious commodity these days, and Twitter doesn’t strike her as a very good use of it. She’s had enough of the bickering and negativity, and she’s decided not to spend her time “watching smart people have pointless fights with idiots.” I […]