Montreal is the host of the internationally known Just for Laughs festival. What a lot of people from around the world don’t know is that Montreal is also host to many insane people with fun senses of humor who pull of the most fun and as well as the funniest of pranks, including Les Justiciers Masqués… Read More Montreal, lair of North America’s newest superheroes: Les Justiciers Masqués
Ah, traveling. The joys of leaving behind the comforts of home, willingly accept to be treated like a felon or a convict while at the airport, suffering through 5 to 8 (or more) hours of stale air, questionable food and funky water (I stand by my opinion that plane water tastes funky!) to arrive in… Read More Whatever you do, don’t do this – and trust me, you, too, can get to this point
So I have decided to join National Novel Writing Month, just because I have so much time on my hands and nothing else to do. Well, that’s a lie, but see? That makes me a perfect candidate to write a 175 page novel. 175 pages. Oh dear me. What have I gotten myself into this… Read More National Novel Writing Month
Halloween is over, but autumn is perfect for watching scary movies at least for another couple of weeks (before Christmas movies start rolling). I have received a couple of email asking me for my favourite Halloween-worthy episodes of the seasons 6, 7, 8 and 9 of the X-files and so, here they are: Terms of… Read More Best Halloween worthy X-files episodes – Seasons 6 through 9
Last week’s episode of Ugly Betty was great, even if, yet again, poor little Justin wasn’t given much space. OK, OK, I admit, I’m pushing the Justin angle a little too much. Maybe they should just do a spin-off (God save us…). I was wondering if thing lightening up between the Meades and Wilhelmina would… Read More Review: Ugly Betty, Episode 6, Season 3
“My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.” Emo Philips
The longest part of this post was the title; I didn’t know if I should be direct, subtle or what. You can see that I decided to go all out and be direct. This story popped into my inbox today, courtesy of a lovely lawyer friend of mine who works with immigration cases. A personal… Read More To allow or not to allow – self-preservation, racism or selfishness?
Just for today, I thought I’d dig out this short story, already posted on this blog but definitely worthy of being read just about now, as the little monsters and goblins are prowling the streets in search of candy… Ah, the life of a college student. It makes it a lot easier on me to… Read More Reprise: The Car in the Fog
“An obsessive-compulsive collector shares his fascination with vintage Halloween photographs, using Flickr to impart these haunting images. “My theme is ‘Halloween in the Time of Cholera,’” collector Steven Martin told Wired.com in an e-mail interview. “The idea being that people back then were probably on a more intimate level with death — and that would… Read More From Wired.com: Vintage Pics Capture ‘Halloween in the Time of Cholera’
For those of you who are going to be waiting at the door for kids to come by, you can always indulge in a little bit of reading to go with the candy you are going to be keeping for yourself (come on, we all do). Here are a couple of reading suggestions for you… Read More Top 10 Halloween Reads