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The knack to flying
June 25, 2014 | BlogThe Guide says there is an art to flying”, said Ford, “or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything For my daughter, who hasn’t quite found the knack yet. Haha.
Dress codes
June 4, 2014 | BlogDid we have dress codes in high school? We must have. I don’t recall anyone being sent home because of their attire, and we all dressed like homeless people. I guess that’s not as offensive as jean shorts or bra straps.
Joss Whedon on equality
June 4, 2014 | BlogEquality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who’s […]
Kurt Vonnegut on happiness
June 3, 2014 | BlogOne of the things [Uncle Alex] found objectionable about human beings was that they so rarely noticed it when they were happy. He himself did his best to acknowledge it when times were sweet. We could be drinking lemonade in the shade of an apple tree in the summertime, and Uncle Alex would interrupt the […]
Neko Case on heaven
June 2, 2014 | BlogA favourite Neko Case lyric has been looping through my brain all weekend, for no discernible reason. I’m not complaining. “And heaven will smell like the airport, But I may never get there to prove it. So let’s not waste our time thinking how that ain’t fair.”
Cranberry mayo
April 16, 2014 | BlogNo mayo manufacturer has bottled a cranberry mayo? Isn’t that the kind of cater-to-the-lazy product that companies love? #crannaise
The Conjouring
March 17, 2014 | BlogSaw The Conjouring on the weekend. Scariest movie I ever saw. Dood had 5 daughters. FIVE DAUGHTERS. They kept tumbling out of his car like clowns at a circus. I couldn’t believe it. I guess there was a haunted house or something too, and the mother tried to kill everybody BUT WHATEVER WHO CAN BLAME […]
Gender specific toys
March 10, 2014 | BlogMy brain reminded me of the time some caveman berated his son for playing with a girl rock, and the boy was looking at the rock wondering “What?” and his cave dad was all “nonono, play with the cave manly rocks over there. Quickly. Before someone sees you.” Then later while the cave boy was […]
My office is a cross-border town
January 2, 2014 | BlogIf I sit straight at my desk, I’m at work. If I swivel 10 degrees, I’m at home. My office is a cross-border town. WHAT MAGIC IS THIS.