You crazy, paranoid Americans and your walls. Always with the walls. Usually you’re yapping semi-coherently about wanting one along the Mexican border, or more accurately finishing that one, but now some of the looniest in your midst, hello Republicans, have openly fantasized about erecting a wall along the Canadian border. A 2015 survey found an […]
Shakespeare Didn’t Write EVERYTHING
“Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” I was all prepared to use that famous quote as an opening for a new catty blog post I was writing about community volunteers and hockey parents. Shakespeare’s famous quote seemed the perfect launching point for my rant with hockey parents, especially, being regularly associated with fury […]
SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT is a Better Movie Than STAR WARS
Three weeks past release and audiences continue flooding into movie theatres like flies to a corpse to watch the long anticipated seventh chapter of the Star Wars franchise. I am still not one of them. I prefer picked over bones to fresh flesh, not to mention a cheaper price tag and fewer people, so I’ll […]
The 1977 Movie That REALLY Needs A Reboot
Ever since Disney bought Lucasfilm in 2012 and green-lit a sequel trilogy, not a week has passed where something Star Wars wasn’t blowing up my social media. This year it’s become a daily irritant as the orgasmically anticipated The Force Awakens inches ever closer to its December 18, 2015 release date. Star Wars this and […]
7 Reasons Why I Don’t Have Any Tattoos
Last week while my kids played after school at the school playground, I had my first ever genuine hipster sighting. I’ve heard about and read about these peculiar creatures for a couple years now but had never actually seen one in real life, this despite living in what you’d call a large, modern, and demographically […]
My Swinging Days Are Over
It happened again, today. One of those unanticipated reminders that I am aging and doing so in a way few would ever describe as graceful. As is so often the case at this stage in my life, this unwelcome reminder came courtesy of my children. Another family Kodak moment where wowing the kids turns into […]