Posts Tagged: Books, Mags, Newspapers, Comics
Gwynne on Bush
Posted by on Tuesday, September 9, 2003 in - 1 comment
Gwynne Dyer, who frosted the cake of my teen nuclear fears with his TV series War, has written on the situation faced by the US in Iraq as the money starts to tighten. First, good call having the Barbados Advocate as a client, Gwynne. It is always important to organize your tax deductable business …
Po-tree
Posted by on Monday, September 8, 2003 in - leave a comment
About twenty years ago right about now, I was entering the third year of my four-year slacker-paced BA in English Lit. I can't say I have carried the literary banner high since about then, especially as law just about killed my ability to read books - as being an usher in a playhouse just about …
How to Vote #2
Posted by on Sunday, September 7, 2003 in - leave a comment
I live in the half or so of the country made of one province called Ontario. Five days into the election I only know one thing. I do not want the Tories to get in again. I knew this six days ago. If I am honest with myself, the party I really agree with are the Greens but I am too much of a …
Fitba
Posted by on Saturday, August 16, 2003 in - leave a comment
All his kids recovering from the blackout of 2003 blackouts. Only grandkids 1500 km to his west. Behind my mother's voice on the phone, Dad can be heard shouting out his only real concern: "Who are they playing?" • Stenhousemuir, as it turns out, where they, the mighty Greenock Morton, won 2-0 …
I Love an Election
Posted by on Tuesday, July 29, 2003 in - 4 comments
As David Swick points out in today's Halifax Daily News [the column], Nova Scotia is facing a squeeker of an election in a few days. After living in PEI - where the NDP is a factor only in keeping the Tories in power by splitting the center-left, a sad fact due to the Province's failure to …
Leah on the bottle
Posted by on Wednesday, July 23, 2003 in - 5 comments
This column disturbs me. Referred to in this post by Dean Allen as a "lifestyle-slathered princess ditz earning a six-figure salary to rephrase the same fictions of urban hip every Saturday", The Globe and Mail's columnist Leah McLaren and all her pals are apparently on the sauce pretty much most …
New Link for Halifax Daily News
Posted by on Monday, July 21, 2003 in - leave a comment
I thought David Swick was on vacation but canada.com just failed for the last 3 weeks to tell we ex-pat Haligonians that we could find the Halifax Daily News and my favorite columnist at a new location: www.hfxnews.ca. • Thank God. I can scrape another pre-1999-ish "portal" glom from my …
<i>Man walks into a Pub</i>
Posted by on Tuesday, July 15, 2003 in - 3 comments
I bought another beer book. I picked up a copy of "Man Walks into a Pub" by Pete Brown on Thursday after noon and it was done by Sunday. Not bad for guy with kiddies. The Guardian said: • “So, as well as the irreverent approach Brown takes to beer's history, he has a refreshingly sensible take …
Suggested Captions
Posted by on Monday, July 7, 2003 in - 3 comments
Working in law and business, one is confronted in magazines, newsletters and websites by supposedly helpful but ultimately meaningless graphics like this one: • What does the image say to you? I would think the older balding guy is begging for his job after the demographically correct downsizing …
Canada noticed
Posted by on Wednesday, July 2, 2003 in - 2 comments
Canada is like a different country according to the Washington Post. Go figure. When I was a kid and Trudeau was Prime Minister, we knew we were not the States and that we did things differently, and not just with the beer or saying "eh" from time to time. Along came Mulroney in the 1980's and …
