Alchemy: Still not dead yet.

Today at the art gallery I watched Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, a documentary about the financial, social, and moral disaster that was Enron, the oil/internet/utility company that crashed and burned so spectacularly in 2001. Yeah, OK, the movie came out in 2005 or something, but I didn’t see it until today [...]

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Complaining with Kay, Episode 11: A free-form bitchy rant show.

A lack of major complaints makes me air all the minor ones.  Featuring: construction, the clusterf*ck that is the TTC, raccoons, and my own lack of self-promotion skillz.
Direct link.

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Still not as good as I think I am, but feeling slightly better about it

So today being Passover, I had a bit of extra time off.  I used it to a) walk the dogs, b) drink, and c) watch YouTube videos of an opera aria I am learning.  Correction: an opera aria I am currently trying to wrestle to the ground and put in a headlock.
It’s Zerbinetta’s big aria [...]

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On conspiracy theories, right and left

It is a well-established fact that humans are great at spotting patterns in noise, but shit at understanding probability.  We can see Jesus in a piece of toast, but can’t grasp that driving children to school is more dangerous (uh, car accidents) than letting them walk (OMG predators!!!1!!!1).  That’s why conspiracy theories are so persuasive.
I’ve [...]

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Does this make sense to you?

Item #1: Screenshot from my Ipod

Item #2: Screenshot from the computer

Yes, that’s right, I can get an actual physical copy of the book for EIGHT DOLLARS LESS than the ebook. 
Never mind that making a hard copy of a book employs thousands of people in different fields – cutting down the trees, transporting the trees to [...]

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Ah, the irony

I just got a cheque in the mail for $225 for a masterclass I gave in Manitoba in November.  Sweet!  In the same post I got a letter from Revenue Canada…
…saying they reassessed my 2007 taxes (again?!) and I owe them $224.45.
Merry fucking Christmas!  I wonder if they sent them to everyone who posted the [...]

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Warning: Another rant

There’s something about leaving the house that fills me with a deep misanthropy.  I went out the other night to a fundraiser sponsored by some company or other.   It was in a bar, and a band I know and like were playing, so I went.  
First of all, the place was full of those [...]

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In other news…

…Gus ran off into the undergrowth at the park yesterday, and I got entirely covered in burrs trying to get him out.  Damn those short little basset legs!

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Very disgusting: DO NOT CLICK

Yes, I had a highly disgusting experience today.  DO NOT CLICK on the “Read more” link if you don’t want to throw up in your mouth.

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Aw fuck, it’s fall

I just noticed the adorable Google graphic of dead leaves and so on.  Also I bought socks last week, and I no longer leave the house without a sweater without checking the weather first.  That clinches it – it’s fall.  
That’s it, folks.  Massive snowstorms and ice freezing on the inside of the windows are [...]

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