Happy happy xmas! I left Seattle late Friday night after my flight was delayed to remove a passenger and her bags. It was actually really funny. A little twenty something rich kid was running around in her fur coat and boutique shopping bags, running into people, dropping her cell phone, and saying [...] Read More…
When I moved my photos and blog over to a new system a year or so ago, I didn't bother moving the old content over. Phooey! There are some real gems in there. I was flipping through some photos of my old adventures and found a few that are worth revisiting. This is [...] Read More…
At first I was going to cross-post this on the World Foodies blog, but I just couldn't stand to have my reputation there tarnished by this tragic episode of lemon bar production. Read More…
Well, maybe it's not so private. If you've ever been hanging out at my place on a hungover Sunday, you've probably watched one of the old Sean Connery movies with me. Or if you've ever been in my bathroom, you've noticed that I have a Goldfinger poster mounted on the wall. So [...] Read More…
Many hard-core federalists have criticized the Liberals' resounding support for the Bloc Québecois motion recognizing Québec as a "nation" (you may remember Ignatieff's tag line: le Québec est ma nation, le Canada est mon pays). Myself, I view the motion as entirely procedural and reject Gilles Duceppe's cries for parliamentarians to recognize it as [...] Read More…