Everything Counts

OK, that last post is a little heavy, with a weekend impending I feel the need to toss in some gratuitous levity and wonder. This has so many irresistible elements: groovy sounds, low-and-high-tech Rube Goldbergian cleverness, Latino cool, insanely cute kids. It’s also the first time I can recall liking the sounds of a recorder! […]

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I go there

Catching up on my RSS feeds, I enjoyed reading this post by Darren Barefoot about the “restricted cat” (or cougar), an oddly innocuous and kid-sweet warning about impending adult-only content: Watching that cute pre-picture cat reminded me of when we lived in Hermosillo, Mexico in the late 90’s. We went to a lot of movies […]

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Disappointed

The game over, we were coming to grips with a disappointing ending to what had been a marvellous season for fans of Vancouver Canucks hockey. Consoling beverages were fixed, arguments on who had failed to perform (in this series, pretty much every Canuck, alas) were waged… and a few uncomfortable jokes about a reprise of […]

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