Mar 17 2004
Wedding in green
To celebrate St. Patrick’s day in San Francisco, two Irish guys got married today. Patrick Fitzgerald got hitched to Gerald Fitzpatrick. Ba-dump-dump! (OK, OK, it’s a joke.)
Archive for March, 2004
Mar 17 2004
March Monkey — Rides
I don’t have any interesting domestic taxi stories because I’m not much of a taxi guy. I think I’ve gone years at a stretch where I didn’t take a taxi in Montreal. I’m not sure why. Then, a few years ago, I suddenly started getting into taxis. I was taking three or four taxi rides [...]
Mar 15 2004
March Monkey!
It’s time for the third of 12 Monkeys! Last month’s monkey was a bit hefty, but this month we’re lightening it up a bit. It’s simply this: describe some taxi rides. Tell us about a few of those memorable rides when you were a passenger and you did not know the driver. We’re thinking “taxi [...]
Mar 12 2004
40-Watt Bulb Department
Through deliberate provocations of memory we relive events and reacquaint ourselves with people and ghosts from our past. Google is great for this, although most of the people I knew prior to, say, 1993, are nowhere to be found in the Googlesphere. Sometimes, however, people and events from the past randomly trickle up from the [...]
Mar 11 2004
Bombings in Madrid
I am shocked by the bombings in Madrid today. No one has yet claimed responsibility, although the Spanish government blames the Basque separatist group Eta. I’m no expert, but this doesn’t really seem like an Eta job. Although they have proven themselves bloody and ruthless, they have never done anything on this scale before, and [...]
Mar 10 2004
The year of Spain
2004 seems to be the “year of Spain” on Planet Blork. M and I are planning to go there for a few weeks this spring or fall, so I’ve been reading about Spain in a few different books and magazines. As well, I’ve been cooking up paellas like there’s no tomorrow. It seems like every [...]
Mar 09 2004
Brain rot
There are so many blogs to read, and some of them are actually interesting. However, given the nature of this medium (and the acknowledged drop in comprehension one experiences when reading on-screen) most of us scan through our blogrolls looking for something to laugh at, or some tidy bit of gossip, or maybe a link [...]
