The Blork Blog

What a wierd weekend, marked almost entirely by geekiness. On the other hand, I made a lot of small transitions of the sort that change a bit of the top-level texture of daily living. I got through some serious items on my "to do" list, getting some big-time monkeys off my back.
For example, I’ve […]

Another guerrilla documentary is up! This is a mini-documentary of the lovely little hotels I stayed in during my week in Paris back in May.

I’ve seen a lot of stupid people in my time, and I’ve seen a lot of regular people do stupid things. Where does this fit?

America is a cesspool stinking up the world.  I mean that literally. Today is the 14th "bad air day" in a row in eastern Canada (a record), and all this bad air is caused by three things:

Pollution blowing up from the US eastern seaboard,

Smog blowing across the great lakes from the south,

A stagnant airmass that’s […]

Saturday was a glorious summer day, so I did a glorious summer day thing. I packed up a bag with all the necessities for an afternoon jaunt (two magazines, a book, cell phone, palm pilot, digital camera, portable radio, notebook & pen, blanket, water, and a mango). Then I hopped on my bike and headed […]

Since it’s actually summery for a change, I decided to eat my lunch al fresco. I grabbed a sandwich from the yummy Sul Posto joint under Simon’s and walked over to Dominion Square. Some honky-tonk band was making a racket, so I crossed the street to Place du Canada and settled in under a war […]

I must have been about five or six when I first took a pee with my father, or first remember it, sharing the same toilet bowl. I guess I came up to about his thigh, my scrotum barely descended, and my little penis like a pert nipple which I had to point well upwards to […]