I’ll be honest with you. I’ve spent the past day or two trying to pretend that a baby who’s been plunked down inside a hollow watermelon that’s been gently placed in the seat of a comfortable chair – and who’s been left to gnaw on the walls of his own little watermelon cage like it’s […]

I totally praised my mother and my girlfriend alike in my most recent post – and if you’re willing to be patient, I’ll praise them both again, along with my sister. But in the meantime, just so you don’t think I’m trying to come off as the world’s most enlightened man, I’ll tell you a […]

Today on my lunch break, I overheard a couple of sad, middle-aged losers use the good name of “Jim J. Bullock,” an HIV-positive gay actor who enjoyed a good deal of success in the eighties, as a euphemism for gay men in general. “Look at that guy,” one of them muttered. “That guy’s a real […]

“Commissioner…” “Yes, Mickey?” “How do you call your Batman?” “‘Come here, Batman!’” “And if he doesn’t answer?” “‘Oh, Batman…’” “And if he still doesn’t answer?” “Well, what I do then is I’ve got this bat signal.”

Call me old fashioned, but when it comes to the world of Xbox Live, I feel like a man’s Gamerscore should be a true reflection of the good he’s achieved in this world. If you’re running around with more points than you deserve, then you may as well be the Killers in a world that’s […]

Thanks to a number of generous donations, I’m now officially at 54% of my total fundraising goal for this year’s AIDS Walk for Life. Many thanks to Chelsea Novak, Stephen Johns, and a fellow who assures me that he’s definitely not my friend Leon Monette for their generosity. The walk is two months from today, […]

Rapper and hip hop icon Guru would have celebrated his forty-ninth birthday today. In tribute to the late artist, and in support of the Canadian Cancer Society, there’s a whole slew of great acts heading down to Sneaky Dee’s tonight to do a tribute show. DJ Serious will be there. KaeWonder will be there. D-Sisive […]

I Write Like, in the words of the A.V. Club, is basically nothing more than “the ego-inflating yet slightly dismissive mentor you’ve never had.” Here’s how it works. First, you copy a block of your own original text, such as the brief blurb that I’m about to make up as I go along: “The greatest […]

If you’ve read your share of books about becoming a good writer – as I have, to no apparent avail – then you already know the importance of the first sentence. Whether you’re writing a novel, an essay, or even a blog post, a winning opening sentence can grab the reader’s attention and hold it […]

A group called Canadian Journalists for Free Expression is currently conducting a survey of “journalists who believe their freedom of expression was compromised by police/security personnel during the G20 security operation.” The CJFE intends to produce a public report based on the results of this survey. Now, it isn’t tough to guess what that report […]