I Want to be a Wine Connoisseur
Alright, I don’t really want to be a wine connoisseur. I would like to have a passable knowledge of wine, but I don’t really intend to be a master taster. I would, however, like to expand my palette a bit. I recently bought a wine rack. It’s only 1/6 full right now, and three of [...]
Blood Ink Party
Blood Ink will be holding a party this Friday (May 04, 2007). Apparently, it’s going to be hot! hot! hot! and erotic. There will be alcohol. There will be literary journalists. There will be editors and hangers-on. There will be poets and pornographers. It’s rumoured that there will be a seance to communicate with the [...]
Disengaged
Dear Internet,
Because I have an obsession with revealing my life to you, I suppose it’s about time that I told you that I’m no longer engaged. I won’t go into the details, as those are between she and I, and you don’t really need to know them. Just know that I am a bachelor once [...]
Spring Windows
I’m driving with the windows down again. It’s one of my favourite things. Putting the windows down means fresh air. Fresh air and a clearer view of the world outside. It’s rebirth without exiting the auto.
Redesigning the Apartment
I’ve been reading a lot about design and architecture lately, both online and off (I particularly enjoy Dwell magazine). All of this reading, combined with the fact that I’ve got a minor obsession (if there can be such a thing as a “minor” obsession) with creating things has given me a rather strong desire to [...]
Miserable
Most of the time, I enjoy the rain. The sound of it hitting a window, or a car rooftop, or an umbrella. The coolness of it against your skin. Rain is good. Storms are pretty cool, too. Rain–and really wet snow–is fairly typical in the spring. Most of the time, I enjoy the rain. This [...]
Humans hot, sweaty, natural-born runners
Hairless, clawless, and largely weaponless, ancient humans used the unlikely combination of sweatiness and relentlessness to gain the upper hand over their faster, stronger, generally more dangerous animal prey, Harvard Anthropology Professor Daniel Lieberman said Thursday (April 12).
Batteries Recharged
I went camping this weekend, and it was excellent. Four people (two of whom are rather tall) crammed into one tiny Japanese compact (sub-compact?) car for four hours each way, plus a number of shorter trips into town, as well as up to the Maligne Canyon. On top of this, because the massive eight man [...]
Spring Camping
I’m hesitant to say that spring has sprung. I think that the last time I said that, it got very cold the next day. Hopefully, though, spring is here to stay this time. If nothing else, it seems that the weather will be nice this weekend. This is good, since I’m going camping with the [...]
A Couple of Links
A couple of links for you, stolen from kottke.org.
The first is proof positive of what people with good taste in music have always known: Nickelback are a bunch of no-talent, unoriginal “rockers.” Two songs, released two years apart, that sound almost exactly the same. Ignore the lyrics and you’ll be even less likely to spot [...]