It’s a gorgeous, sunny Friday night, and I’m at home, contemplating life with my broke ass, after paying $106 out of a very meagre, very-tight-already paycheque from which rent’s supposed to come, too. (Read this morning’s rant for more on that.)
I had generously invited a couple friends over for hamburgers tomorrow, before we see the [...]

In the last three or four years, I’ve purged at least a half-dozen large boxes of books that spanned every genre you could think of. Even today, with my gutted and scaled collection, it’d take you some time to scan my shelves.
You’d notice, though, a penchant for dark fiction, strange and obscure history, and a [...]

(It’s just shy of 12 hours later, and my hand feels better tonight than this morning, and that’s after a day’s work and a yoga routine that was heavy on the downward-facing dog. This is good! I’m confused, but this is good! But I’ll leave the post up ‘cos I’m still taking some time off [...]

Well, it’s Saturday morning and it’s a fiercely sexy morning of… yes, housecleaning.
Then I have to do the requisite girlie-bath thing with a facial and all the fussin’ ‘cos I have me a coffee date this afternoon, and while there’s pretty much no chance of him getting the goods this evening, I still want to [...]

Like most bloggers, this is my not-so-secret other life. I get paid to work for a living, but because I’ve opted for a cushy job that keeps life simple for me, it’s not exactly keeping me in luxury. Blogging’s what I turn to for kicks, for fun, for community.
But I don’t live under the delusion [...]

If you’ve come to check for the posting I posted last night, it’s been moved to my “journal” blog, as I occasionally post to the wrong blog when I’m, like, drunk and all. I try to keep this blog on specific topics. Sorry.
Meanwhile, later today I’ll post here… once I’ve stopped sniffing furniture oil fumes. [...]

Katharine Hepburn once said, “Life is hard. After all, it kills you.”
I’ve been keeping that in mind on my little journey this year. I’m just hoping it kills me much later as a result of all my good behaviour. But it sure as fuck feels nigh some days.
I had a visit to my doctor much [...]

I have just one very important question.
When is someone going to make a dry ice that’s not so dry?
I mean, I go to a concert, the music’s just pounding and throbbing, I wanna shout another witty comment to my buddy, the fuckin’ dry ice is spewing in, my throat closes up, I get all hoarse, [...]

Being the ever-watchful eye I am, I’ve noticed a disconcerting trend amongst the circles I travel in. Like most issues I tackle, this too is neither black nor white; instead, it’s many varying shades of grey…
…Hairs, that is.
My friends and I are now clearly showing we’re older, more damaged goods. Specs of grey appear weekly, [...]

In keeping with yesterday’s pope-fuelled rant against the Catholic Church, let’s talk some more about religion.
I was thrilled on May 2nd when I read an article revealing that there’s a new movement within America’s evangelical religious types to call for a return of separating church from state. They believe the evangelical’s insistence toward ingratiating itself [...]

It’s 11 on Friday night. Party week looms, so I’m sleeping in late tomorrow.
I’ve earned it, cycling about 40 kilometres today. Wahoo. Gettin’ there. I’m sore. I work in downtown Vancouver, so it’s easy to cycle the seawall after work, so I did a 27 km stretch of Vancouver’s friggin’ awesome seawall. But I did [...]