The following is part of a wonderful post from last week by fellow blogger Brian Cromer. Whatever your religious beliefs, or even if you don’t have any, this is definitely a post that will give you food for thought, as well as a potential debate starter: do we inspire pop culture, or should pop culture… Read More Setting trends rather than following them: a wonderful plea
Writing about the best Halloween-worthy episodes of the X-files has made me nostalgic of the time when I couldn’t wait for the newest episode of a show to come out. And while Heroes and Ugly Betty have definitely made me happy in the last two years… Well, they are no X-files. And so, I have… Read More Need a replacement TV show to take up the spot of much beloved yet deceased X-files
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