Life – Page 8 of 15
Blog posts about life, art, and everything.
Facebook is annoying
August 8, 2014 | Miscellany
Facebook is like that annoying kid you ask to stop with the annoying thing but they’re all hopped on sugar or bad parenting and they keep pressing buttons.
The knack to flying
June 25, 2014 | Miscellany
The Guide says there is an art to flying […] or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. – Douglas Adams
Dress codes
June 4, 2014 | Miscellany
Did 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.
Joss Whedon on equality
June 4, 2014 | Miscellany
Equality 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 […]
Kurt Vonnegut on happiness
June 3, 2014 | Miscellany
One of the things [Uncle Alex] found objectionable about human beings was that they so rarely noticed it when they were happy.[…]
Neko Case on heaven
June 2, 2014 | Miscellany
A favourite Neko Case lyric has been looping through my brain all weekend, for no discernible reason. I’m not complaining.
Cranberry mayo
April 16, 2014 | Miscellany
No 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 | Miscellany
Saw 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.
Gender specific toys
March 10, 2014 | Miscellany
I express my disinterest in gender specific toys through a short parable that includes cave people and mastodons.
My office is a cross-border town
January 2, 2014 | Miscellany
If 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.