The Blork Blog

It’s Friday and I haven’t blogged since Tuesday!  But what a week it has been. I finally finished the article I’m ghost-writing for Billing World magazine, which is a big monkey off my back, plus there was much "Wendy Jo Wood MA" festivilations, plus I had a sick day. Yowser!
But now, faithful readers, I am […]

Without getting into the whole debate, here’s a bit of an anecdote about music in these modern times.A few months ago I was trolling around the servers at work and I found every track of U2’s All That You Can’t Leave Behind sitting there as 160-bit MP3s. I also found a crazy bootleg of The […]

About 12 years ago I was stuck in a rut, standing there with a piece of paper flapping in my pocket (a BA degree), with no clue as to what I should do–or wanted to do–next. So I found some book (for the life of me I can’t remember what it was called) that helped […]

We had a lot of snow this past week, getting up near 50cm within a couple of days. Apparently it was the third worst snowstorm in Quebec since they started keeping snowfall records.That’s enough anytime, but in the middle of freakin’ MARCH!!!??
I was up at the cottage this weekend. While the snow was wet and […]

Check out this scan from the back of a box of new Aquafresh “dental mints.” Look at the graph… the red line shows how much you salivate when you’re just standing there like a dope. The blue line shows how much you salivate when you’re sucking on a “dental mint”.
(a) When did salivation become the […]

This goes out to my large international following who aren’t here to see this crime against the season. It’s March 22, the second day of spring, and it’s been snowing big wet sloppy snow all day. It was actually kind of beautiful first thing this morning–snowflakes the size of butterflies gently whafting about. Then I […]

I had a dream last night about me and Randi.She and I were driving an old truck along a dirt road in some rural area. We stopped at a dusty old store for ice cream. We sat on a bench eating the ice cream, and right in front of us was a steep hill that […]