A letter to the editor, seen this morning in the Globe and Mail, noting the photo earlier this week of President George W. Bush holding hands with a Saudi sheikh while they walked and talked of the high price of petrol…….
This must make Bush a petrosexual……..
see you in a couple of weeks!
This piece originally appeared in the Kingston Whig-Standard on October 31, 1991, @ p.13. (there were more pages then; there was a local publisher…”) It is an account of the great Bay Area fire of 1991. Why do I reprise it now? Precisely because we shall be staying in CA on Agnes Street in Oakland, […]
Hi again all you millions complaining that there are insufficient blogs….how time flies yes, and how keeping a journal of sorts does not fly. But, heck, given taxes, marking, and the need to walk Forest five times a day, the scribe must demonstrate more discipline! OK….here’s another big hiatus coming….we’re off to the Bay Area […]
Quickly now, a very good/bad joke picked up from an article revieweing recent sex literature in the Nov 2004 Walrus:
Why is Viagra like Disneyland?
A: A one-hour wait for a two-minute ride.
The article is particularly insightful in calling attention to the sports metaphors the new erectile-dysfunction drug manufacturers use to sell their snake-oil:
“step up to the […]
What grand weather we’ve had here for the past couple of weeks. Makes you think that Kingston is one of the best places in the world to call home. News: it is, save the period between November and March, even April (T.S. Eliot’s cruelest month) — when exam and paper marking vie with churning through […]