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…
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.…
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…
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…
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.
But first… happy twentieth birthday to Debra, my little – uh, younger sister! She is in Copenhagen on exchange right now, but I think everybody who reads this and knows her should send her a “happy birthday” email right away. And make sure to do as our parents did and…
This week’s post is a little late, but I hope you will forgive me in that I couldn’t possibly make it before the event I am about to discuss had actually happened. That’s right: yesterday, Saturday the 18th, was the second annual Cross-Ottawa treasure hunt – PIRATES! First of all,…
The structure of a benzene molecule. The tune for “Yesterday”. DNA. Special relativity. Frankenstein. How come other people get all the inspiring dreams? I’ve been working on my character Karen Crowley and her adventures at Willy Mac’s for four and a half years now, and I’ve only ever had two…
Unsurprisingly, there are a few spoilers behind the cut. If you don’t want to know Snape’s motivation or fate, then, Gentle Reader, beware. I’m typing this in the middle of designing this website: I have undoubtedly meddled with a thousand little bits of code that probably were better off without…
Hello, Internet. It’s me again. I know I had a propensity for leading you on in the past, but this time it’s different. This will be my professional website, see? There are excerpts of my manuscripts, and pictures, and I even got my own domain name, all for you. I…