The Blork Blog

No kidding, this is the fruit I took with me to the office yesterday for between meal snacks: That’s a blood orange and a Cripps Pink apple. Cripps and bloods, right there on my desk. I spaced them out – I ate the blood orange in the morning and the Cripps apple in the afternoon. [...]

Yesterday morning, on the same day that the Vatican issued its “10 Commandments for Good Motorists” in a 36-page document called Guidelines for the Pastoral Care of the Road, a fellow Montreal blogger got doored by a pickup truck. Not only did the Tinman get doored, he went down in a heap and then another [...]

Zeke’s Gallery Blog has gone dark as a result of the ridiculous “scandal” that has plagued him for the past few months. (If you’re not up on the issue, Fagstein provides an excellent chronological breakdown.) I spoke with Chris today and he assured me that the darkness of his blog is self-imposed, on the advice [...]

As I continue to mull over the purpose, significance, and point of this blog, you’ve probably noticed that I’ve been sparing you the usual vomitoria of half-baked polemics and expostulations. Last week, for example, I bored you with photographs of flowers. I’ll start this week with a photograph of my Sunday dinner: That would be [...]

I have a 12-inch iBook that I bought second hand a few years ago which I use primarily as a mobile Web terminal. It came with CodeTek Virtual Desktop preinstalled. I never use it, and it just gets in the way (it puts some kind of virtual desktop container thingy on the bottom of the [...]

This one is for Lisa, who is about to pop . . .