Baby book roundup

So like all new parents I have no idea what I’m doing. I was fortunate enough to get a relatively easy-going baby (as these things go) and a naturally easy-going attitude towards parenting, but I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t want to Look Things Up, if only to know whether or not I’m doing [...]

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Budget tips for the 1%

I know I haven’t posted in roughly forever, and no, I haven’t had the baby yet. I am currently three days overdue, uncomfortable, and cranky. So perhaps that’s why this article from January’s Toronto Life irritated me so much. I suppose I should have more sympathy for people getting by on a mere $10K or [...]

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On inattention, wilful and otherwise

On the last post, Tim of Tim’s Cycling Blog comments: Humans are NOT capable of the intense concentration and reactions that driving requires, humans should not be in control of vehicles moving at such high speeds. Humans are in such vehicles because of progress and peoples lives are acceptable loses in the push for progress [...]

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Involuntary holiday

I can’t quite explain why right now, but for a couple of reasons I am not doing a lot of things I normally do these days. Frankly I am leading the life of a 19th-century tuberculosis patient, except I’m not in the Swiss Alps and I don’t have tuberculosis. (I think. I hope! Wouldn’t it [...]

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Apocalypse poem

So as we all know by now the world failed to end on May 21. Though Harold Camping is now claiming that the Rapture totally happened, only it happened spiritually. Ooookay then. There are now a bunch of soulless Christians running around. Good to know! I will not approach a megachurch without my zombie repellant, [...]

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Three cliches about time

1: You’ve heard this before – Western people think of time as being linear, African people think of time as relational (one thing happening at the same time as another), and Eastern people think of time as cyclical. Yeah, total hippy bullshit. However, I am beginning to think that time really IS cyclical, because I [...]

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A quick note

I’ll be playing some Brecht/Weill songs at an event called MurderFolk – an ongoing music series that is a little hard to explain but really cool.  It’s on May 24 in Toronto, and since it’s in a private home I can’t post the details, but if you’re interested join the Facebook group and request an [...]

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Hollywood! Here I come!

I had an AWESOME idea last night for a blockbuster Hollywood romantic comedy.  Screw opera and poetry, this is what’s going to propel me into the spotlight. Here’s the treatment: The Jerk Whisperer Tagline: The biggest jerk is always the one you find…in your heart. Matthew [Vince Vaughan] is the world’s first “Jerk Whisperer”. Author, [...]

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Plans A-C

CROSSPOSTING TO PLAN C AT LAST! You may have noticed – if you cared – that I have not been posting at Plan C lately. I had only just gotten started at it when Plan A (“Become famous opera star”) suddenly, and without my doing anything really, came to life again. Well, now that those [...]

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Your real crime is being nobody

We all know that we treat people differently based on who they are. We have different standards of behaviour for different people. This is self-evident – if you, say, get into a fight with your partner and yell at each other, you make up a little while later without much difficulty. If a random stranger [...]

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