Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt from The Hills are following me on Twitter. Either that, or their assistants are following me. I’m really not sure how this sort of thing works when there’s that much fame and money involved. In any event, being followed by Pratt and Montag puts me in an exclusive club of […]

When I checked my mail this morning, I found a note saying that someone had left me a message on Cracked.com. His name was also Matt Blair, and he seemed like a nice enough fellow. I can only assume he found me because he’d been Googling himself, but that’s neither here nor there. Truth be […]

Today is the first anniversary of the election that sent Barack Obama to the White House, and the folks at the Daily Beast picked an interesting way to mark the occasion. Shushannah Walshe and Scott Conroy, the authors of a new book called Sarah From Alaska, shared the full text of the victory and concession […]

Basically, Teen Wolf is among the best movies ever made. It’s a timeless teen comedy with a positive message and something for everyone. If you haven’t seen it yet, then I urge you to track it down.

Today was the first day of pledge week at CIUT 89.5 FM, the official University of Toronto radio station and the leading listener supported station in the city. The station has been a registered charity since October of 2005, and they rely on pledges and membership to support their diverse range of alternative programming. If […]

My brother Jon, an artist and sketch comic of some acclaim, recently added a couple of new clips to his channel on YouTube. One is brand new, and the other’s a classic. There’s also more to come, so be sure to stay tuned to his channel for plenty of updates. Meanwhile, this month is apparently […]

I wish I’d posted about Werewolf Bar Mitzvah sooner. With all the Payday stuff and the Strong Words this and the Everyone’s a DJ that, it’s been a little too easy to lose track of all the other aspects of my calendar. And that’s a shame, because this is a party you really ought to […]

Strong Words curator Spencer Butt is appearing tonight at 9:00 PM at the Annex Live, which you may already know as the site of the former Poor Alex Theatre. He’s part of a much larger show featuring what he describes as “lots of other great and varied performers and funny people.” Although I’m afraid I […]

A little while back, I hit YouTube in search of the final scene from Planet of the Apes. I found it here, and whether you’re reading this on the same night I’ve posted it or years after the fact, I hope that link still works. After all, everybody needs a little bit of Charlton Heston […]

There’s a great paragraph in Jarhead, the Gulf War memoir written by Anthony Swofford. There are a lot of them, actually, but this is the one I’d like to share with you: “Like most good and great marines, I hated the Corps. I hated being a marine because more than all of the things in […]