May 30 2007
Martine and I did something different last night; we tried some 3D gaming. It was really quite the thing, although right off the bat we knew the game’s design was flawed because in order to play we had to physically relocate our bodies to a specific geographical location in Parc Lafontaine. I mean, what the [...]
May 27 2007
Steve Faguy’s been writing profiles of Montreal bloggers for the past five or six months. They show up in the “Saturday Extra” section of the Saturday edition of the Montreal Gazette. Steve interviewed me back in January (face-to-face and via email) and his profile of my blog showed up this weekend. Because it’s in the [...]
May 24 2007
Today was the warmest May 24 on record for Montreal. How many times in the past ten years have we had this discussion, that the record for warmest or coldest had just been broken? Dozens of times. We’re re-writing the history of weather on a monthly basis yet there are still some who believe there [...]
May 21 2007
A couple of days ago Martine and I were at the Jean-Talon market poking around for goodies while our car was in a nearby garage getting some work done. In Chez Louis we spotted a gorgeous assortment of fresh mushrooms, including a beautiful box of morels and a box of fresh porcinis (which were labelled [...]
May 18 2007
Below you see a familiar sight; the “open door” and “close door” buttons found in the elevators of many downtown office buildings: Maybe it’s just me, but I can never figure out which button to push. To be precise, by the time I figure out which is the correct button, it’s too late. The reason [...]
May 15 2007
The Doorbells of Florence is a “blook” of short fiction by Andrew Losowsky, in which each story is inspired, and accompanied, by a photograph of doorbells in Florence. It just won first place in the “fiction” category of the Lulu Blooker Prizes. A blook, by the way, is a printed book whose content was originally [...]
