Life
Blog posts about life, art, and everything.
Albert Munsell in living colour
March 12, 2010 | BlogIn the early 20th century, Albert Munsell invented a system for naming colours numerically by hue, value and chroma. A hundred years later, the Munsell color system remains internationally accepted, yet the only image that exists of it’s creator is a lousy black and white photo.
Dream a little dream
January 5, 2010 | BlogI don’t dream often, so last night was a surprise. A ragtag band of heros bring down a corupt corporation. They stack the executives like fire wood in the center of a round room with floor to ceiling windows. A crowd gathers inside and out to witness. The leader stands forward. “Do not work for […]
Quentin Crisp on failure
January 3, 2010 | BlogIf at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style. Quentin Crisp
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.