Just in case you were wondering about the lack of witty observation otherwise known as cutting and pasting. This one is odd as it was not received from the kids. I did watch the last Matrix movie on Global TV last night. The breaks for commercials helped my understand Smith's position in all this …

Nothing like waking to a manual spammer who has left 47 identical comments on 47 separate posts. The decent spammers, the ones you would kick in the shin rather than higher if you had the chance, post a bunch of comments on one post so they are easy to delete. But no, the Romanian spam sweatshop …

An excellent picture from the BBC this morning, most excellent because of the trendy girls in to the back and right who are looking at the black wizardy lads.  •  Easter week has often meant in my adult life hitting the road as it will this year, seeking a little saltiness and a little spring. As …

You know how good, how useful TV is when it gives you the chance to see a movie you were not allowed to see in grade seven. It was like a glimpse into the future when the Flea rules the planet and treats us all like pawns on a chessboard. Best of all - it's Canadian content with Norman Jewison in …

Up too late watching the Grammy broadcast, listening to Christine Aguilera's voice writhe through a song-like thing and wondering how many degrees of separation there was between that voice that never really touches on a note and that of Mary Margaret O'Hara's. The high school marching band with …

We watched The Return of the Pink Panther last night and I was quite interested to not that, being a 70s comedy, the setting was in part a Middle Eastern military dictatorship. A right giggle ensued everytime the murderous secret police and their henchment piled in and out of the tiny Fiat. They …

I finally saw The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and was moved. I think if I knew the soundtrack was an accoustic version of early Bowie in Brazilian Portuguese by a character called Pele dos Santos I would have gone to the theatre.  •  But I do not go to the movies when the offering is too close …

The excellent thing about modernity is all the storage space. Things can sit around for decades and still be brought out brushed off and considered again. In Gray's poem "Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard" he writes:  •  “Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid  •  Some heart once pregnant …

'Nuff said.