This book is altogether unremarkable. It is not especially bad, nor especially good. It just exists. And that sucks because I was really looking forward to it. Maybe it’s because I haven’t yet experienced a mid-life crisis–though I think it’s safe to say my mid-youth crisis (thanks Hozier) is under way. The book played out […]
Content gets stolen all the time on the internet, whether it’s audio, visual, text or all three. Generally, there’s no big deal made out of it, unless you’re in the music or movie industry and consumers aren’t paying giant producers or labels to listen to the newest Rihanna song (and I have thought a lot […]
So I stumbled upon this article on AdWeek about Irish Spring’s new campaign. The advertisements, some of which are posted on Youtube, serve as TV spots, calling back to Irish Spring’s ads of the ’80s. The old campaigns use non-Irish actors struggling to brogue it up amid stereotypes of freckled children and the slogan “Fresh […]
I finally finished Kate Morton’s The Lake House just last night. I can’t tell you the number of chills I got reading it, not can I tell you whether they were chills of fear or panic or just plain pleasure. But I can tell you that this book was a pleasure to read. It was intricate, […]
I have just finished reading Ready Player One, a book that was called, by many reviewers, one of the best books of 2011. I don’t know who these people reviewing it are, but either they didn’t read much in 2011 or they’re total idiots. Now, that’s not to say that I didn’t like Ready Player One. I […]
The following is a humour piece I wrote a while back. Please enjoy. The first thing one notices upon entering the city of London, Ontario is not the uncannily high unemployment rate, nor the year-round beauty of the parks and grounds therein. Instead, one is made immediately aware of how much the students attending post-secondary […]
Hi, You can view my new post full-screen here in adobe Slate. Thought I would try something new. If all you want is boring old text then fine. Here you go. Oneaweek The first time I picked up a guitar…well, the truth is, I wanted to pick up a ukulele from the local music shop […]
You probably know this already, but Alan Rickman died. Severus Snape. I remember feeling shocked when I first heard. He’s only 69. I’ve written about the death of an actor before, for another thing I was working on. It’s always something that brings people together in their grief. I remember when my grandmother died, and […]
I learned the hard way, I think as everyone does, that some people aren’t to be trusted. Maybe I was immature though, when I learned it, or maybe I just learned it late, because people could still sucker me in at 15, and then again at 17, then 19, 20… I’m 22 now. I still […]
Which I thought for the longest time was Sharp Edges. Like, I was reading it thinking that. I read this book in a few days over the Christmas break. I want to say this first: It was for me. I suppose I identified with it. Try not to guess how. I love crime fiction. That’s sort […]
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