Sep 30 2004
Vacation in Nova Scotia starts in four hours. No, I’m not taking the laptop. No blogging, no email, no nuthin’!
Disconnected for ten days. That’s the longest I’ve been away from the Web since 1995!
Be back on October 11. See ya!
Sep 28 2004
Item: When instant messaging, I have an inexplicable urge to “speak” in ebonics.
Item: Funniest movie line of all time — the scene in “Annie Hall” where Woody Allen and Shelly Duval are in bed, post coital. Duval: “Your lovemaking is Kafkaesque.”
Item: Funniest TV line of all time — the scene in “Curb Your Enthusiasm” when […]
Sep 27 2004
Martine and I saw “The Forgotten” this weekend, despite the bad reviews. I regret to inform you that the reviewers were right. The first half of the film is good, almost very good, and it is nicely photographed using lots of nice overhead shots of Brooklyn and the lower Manhattan bridges. But when the story […]
Sep 26 2004
For our upcoming Nova Scotia holiday, Martine and I have booked ourselves into a wide range of accomodation that includes, on the low end, sofa-surfing and Ma & Pa motels. We finish up in Halifax, however, at a nice place that offers “turn down service.”
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been turned down plenty […]
Sep 23 2004
Yesterday was “no car day” in Montreal and elsewhere. Part of downtown and the Plateau Mont Royal were designated “car-free” for a good chunk of the day. I work downtown, so I went for a stroll during my lunch break. Here are a few pictures and comments . . .
I suppose “car-free” doesn’t mean “horse-free.”
The […]
Sep 22 2004
The theme for the September monkey is: Pitch your life!
Early Childhood: Imagine if Beaver Cleaver were Beaver Bunker.
Puberty: It’s sort of like “Stand By Me,” except none of the kids actually like each other.
Adolescence: Imagine this: “Room 222″ meets “Welcome Back Kotter.” Except they’re not as much fun as the Kotter kids. And they aren’t […]
Sep 21 2004
The theme for the September monkey is: Pitch your life!
I don’t mean pitch it out the window, I mean sell the idea to a TV network or a movie producer. How would you pitch the story of your life?
Such pitches usually take the form of combining two known elements, like “it’s kind of a cross […]
