Life – Page 9 of 16
Blog posts about life, art, and everything.
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.
Tell him about the Twinkie
January 2, 2014 | Miscellany
Every time I go into the furnace room my inner dialog is this bit from Ghostbusters and I’m not sure it should be anything else, really.
An assortment of Christmas thoughts
December 24, 2013 | Miscellany
Enjoy this miscellany of Christmas thoughts sure to brighten even the darkest of holiday attitudes, you Grinch. Chug that nog, Santa’s coming.
School bus memories
November 27, 2013 | Miscellany
Thinking back on the absolute lack of snow days when I was in elementary school, and just how wild everything was.
Scarlet the cat
July 25, 2013 | Miscellany
The Great Mouse Tormentor. Scourge of the Food Bowl. The Master Napper. Scarlet the Cat, died today at 15 years of age. So it goes.