“Oh, my God!” the girl in the cowboy hat behind me in line at the drug store shouted as she picked up a tabloid newspaper. “They murdered Zsa Zsa Gabor?” “I don’t know,” said the guy beside her wearing an identical cowboy hat. Seriously, you guys, I checked. “But they did!” she insisted. “Look, it […]

I just realized that Kate and I are getting married two months from today. I feel like that ought to seem like either too much time or too little time, but it doesn’t. To tell you the truth, two months sounds like it’s about right. I guess that means we’re doing pretty well with the […]

Moments ago, while standing in line to get some coffee on the way back to the office, I saw a short, scrawny teenage kid wearing a t-shirt that said “Keep laughing… This is your girlfriend’s shirt!” And you know what? I did do a little laughing. Hell, to be honest, I was pretty close to […]

No new AIDS Walk for Life donations have come in since my last update, but that’s okay. Not just because it’s only been a few days, or because the walk itself is still over a month away, but because everyone has already been so generous. The fact that the six hundred dollar mark has already […]

Look, I know it’s eleven o’ clock on a Saturday. But I also know that a lot of you out there have got your iPhones in full effect, and you’re surfing in the web and your social networks in the company of your friends, because that’s a thing that’s suddenly become acceptable in public. So […]

“Looks like the new Manics album’s got a shirtless photo of Tim Roth on the cover,” I told my girlfriend in an email. “Nice,” she replied. “I hope you’re going to buy it.” “I might just,” I said. “Should I get it on vinyl, the ‘biggest cover art’ option?” “Up to you,” she replied. “I […]

On a whim, I decided to visit YouTube this week and see if my brother, an actor and comedian of some acclaim, had added his reel to his channel. And sure enough, hooray! Although I’ve gotten to watch my brother put a lot of this reel together while he’s been living with us this summer, […]

“Canada’s economic recovery cannot afford to be disrupted by an ‘unnecessary’ election, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said after announcing a minor cabinet shuffle.” What did I tell you? The polls take a turn for the worse, and suddenly Harper’s out there telling anyone who’ll listen that now is not the time for an election. Which […]

Hear me out on this one, guys. As you may have already heard, “traditional” marriage advocates are arguing that Wednesday’s ruling against Proposition 8 shouldn’t be considered a fair ruling. Some argue that the judge in question, Vaughn Walker, overstepped his bounds when he ruled against the will of the 52% of people who voted […]

Strong Words ought to be wrapping up right about now, and I’m afraid I wasn’t able to get there and catch it. I left the series in June, as you may recall, and tonight’s reading was the first that the new curators organized on their own. Sadly, it was also the last reading brought to […]