Life
Blog posts about life, art, and everything.
Saint Nicholas vs Psycho Butcher. Fight!
December 25, 2009 | BlogOkay, the story goes like this: it’s the 4th century, there’s a bit of a famine happening, and there’s this psycho butcher who decides to chop up a bunch of kids, salt the meat in barrels, and sell it as cured ham. Along comes Saint Nicholas, the generous Bishop of Myra, to help the needy. […]
Thank Frigg it’s Friday
November 13, 2009 | BlogFrigg, the Norse goddess of love and fertility, was banished to a mountaintop and proclaimed a witch once Christianity was embraced by Norse and Germanic tribes. There she lost her shit, and once a week she met with eleven other witches, and the devil to plan out the fateful misfortunes for the coming week. The […]
Alexander Frehse
October 18, 2009 | BlogA tip of the hat to Alexander Frehse, inventor of the lemon meringue pie, and the subsequent lifetime of desert related over indulgence.
Early morning view from a train station
October 9, 2009 | BlogAt 6 am this morning, the view from the platform of the Fallowfield VIA Rail station was pure yesteryear. Track, waist high grass, then corn field stretching for a mile before blending into vague early morning darkness, and finally capped by the burly frame of the distant Gatineau Hills. If not for the staccato of […]
Everyone can relax, I found the Ark of the Covenant
August 20, 2009 | BlogAs it turns out, the Ark of the Covenant wasn’t so much lost as it was misplaced behind my furnace under a pile of vintage Playboy, and Molson stubbies. If you can move it, you can have it.
Pecan butter tart
June 24, 2009 | BlogI intended to eat half of the pecan butter tart, but then it kind of broke while I was cutting it, and fell apart, so I felt bad that I’d done such a shoddy job of halving it, I mean nobody wants to see a busted up pecan butter tart it’s such a sad looking […]
Locked in a beer cooler
June 8, 2006 | BlogTypically I find it’s a good idea to be prepared. How can I prepare for all of the possible things that could happen to me in one day? Like that time I got locked in a commercial beer cooler.
Locked in a room
May 22, 2006 | BlogI got to thinking about the times I have been trapped in locked rooms without air ducts. It’s happened more times than you think.
A shower of thoughts
March 6, 2006 | BlogMaybe it’s the soothing sounds of falling bath water, or the perky scents of aroma-therapy bath products, but a lot of people do their best thinking in the shower. So, here are, in no particular order, my most recent shower cogitations.
Summer vacation is over
February 5, 2006 | BlogSummer vacation was over, and there wasn’t a damn thing I could do about it. Not to say I didn’t try.