In other news, Paprika is seriously one of the weirdest movies I’ve ever seen. Well, not really: I’m pretty sure FILM 110 had its gems, and I can’t honestly remember a lot of The Saddest Music in the World or even A Hard Day’s Night. But, since Paprika is (is it?) about a machine that [...]

1. I found this essay on Harry Potter and (erroneously expressed) Calvinism pretty interesting. And entertaining. Now, I’m not saying you’d enjoy going and reading it, but, for Pete’s sake, I went to the trouble of figuring out how to post a link and all, didn’t I? 2. Spanish flu. Just kidding! (If you didn’t [...]

So if you want to understand this post at all, you need to remember Guess Who. A board game only fractionally more challenging than Hungry Hungry Hippos, it involved a flat of little doors for each player. Each door had a picture of a “character” with a unique set of features – blue eyes, brown [...]

I wanted to read Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion since it came out and am probably the last person EVER to finally read it, but, in my defense, I put myself on the Ottawa Library’s hold list around Christmas and didn’t get my hands on a copy until the end of the summer. Clearly, people [...]

On Wednesday, I went on a pirate ship to cruise the Halifax harbour in Nova Scotia. But that’s not what this entry’s about.