There it is, a new year–with no snow, no water, very little of anything noteworthy aside from that gruesome trial running its way down at the courthouse. So sad, and so much a part of another culture not known to us Canadians, save through the kind of atrocities we read about in Middle Eastern countries [...]
With Christmas fast sneaking up, time to think tree, presents, food, jollity. Fun time of year for most, tough time of year for some–like Orientation at Queen’s, at Christmas you are expected to be happy, joyous, uplifted, et al. Otherwise, you can assay Scrooge, or just get depressed. More people struggle around Christmas time — [...]
Must admit, I like to watch “The Young and the Restless” (or the old and the chestless) on Global, and then the Global News at 5:30 and Bill H and downtown Julie Brown at 6 on CKWS. And the occasional game. NHL and NFL — watching people bash their brains out. NBA is a dead [...]
We Canadians have Stephen Harper the Lionhearted and Don Cherry, the self-anointed, and Rob Ford, the who-can-tell?, but residents of the 49th parallel northward still trail the United States in the category of political buffoonery. Right now, the Republican Party seems to be the major home of the goofuses–with Rick Perry mistaking the voting age–he [...]
So, we had a splendid time looking back on all the comments made here over the past few months, and recognizing how a blog is a spam outlet, and of course readers will have difficulty sometimes telling the difference. But the big news around here, aside from the salubrious (ha ha got you — if [...]
And the days get short, when you reach September….Do you recall Nat King Cole? I saw him in person in Fresno in 1963 — what a performer, and September Song remains one of my favourites. So the days are getting shorter, the air has a little bite in it with the wind from the north, [...]
It’s cold here in Kingston, and yet, we have a handle (I think) on athletic decency and fair play. Hope that I am right…….