I don’t know about you, but I just had a really busy weekend, and I’ve got a lot of people to thank for making it such a great one. Big thanks, first of all, to the DJs who spun at Saturday’s edition of Everyone’s a DJ, not to mention the crowd who came to check […]

I’m glad to be able to tell you that my fundraising target of five hundred dollars for this weekend’s AIDS Walk for Life has officially been exceeded. Big thanks to those of you who were generous enough to donate! If you’re planning to donate but haven’t gotten around to it yet, then it’s not too […]

As I mentioned in my last post, I’m turning thirty pretty soon. In fact, I realized earlier that the big day is just three weeks from today. To be honest, it totally snuck up on me, and I think that’s because I haven’t been putting much stock in it. I don’t tend to make a […]

I’m a couple of days late on this one – I’m still catching up on the email backlog after Oregon, I’m afraid – but hopefully better late than never. Ben Peterson, the founder of Journalists for Human Rights, celebrated his thirty-second birthday on Tuesday. In honour of the occasion, and in lieu of any gifts, […]

I’ve been yelling about this all over the web since I found out about it half an hour ago, so I figured I might as well post it here and get it out of my system. But since it’s so infuriatingly, dumbassedly stupid that I don’t even know where to begin, I hope you won’t […]

Oregon was a wonderful time indeed, and the wedding that prompted the trip was one of the best I’ve ever attended. The highs were high, the lows were maudlin, the drinking was epic, and the apologies were heartfelt. Congratulations and all the best to Henry and Jen, who I hope will enjoy a lifetime of […]

“Can we go to Wendy’s instead of Burger King?” I overheard a woman ask her friends a moment ago. One of them shrugged and nodded, so she threw her hands in the air and shouted “Yay! Wendy’s!” Well, I’m sorry, but that won’t do. Everybody’s got a right to their opinion, and the fact that […]

The “Obama as Hitler” thing has run its course. We can all agree on that, right? There’s a graphic making the rounds on the web at the moment, which you may have seen, that articulates the silliness of the Hitler angle better than I ever could. But that’s nothing compared to the new “Joker Obama” […]

Kate and I are flying down to Oregon tomorrow. One of the best dudes in my life is getting married on the weekend in the bride’s hometown of Grants Pass, and we figured we might as well throw some time in Portland into the mix and make a week of it. Frankly, I’m glad we […]

So it turns out that Family, the sophomore album from Montreal’s Think About Life, is the most fun album I’ve heard in a long while. From the opening track “Johanna” to the driving closer “Life of Crime,” it’s a funky, heavy album from a band that sounds much bigger than a trio. Family is a […]