Gifted Typist

Another little book has reached its last page.
I carry these leather-bound notebooks around everywhere to record mental ephemera of every description.
My little book contains grocery lists, movie recommendations, phone numbers, notes taken from interesting radio documentaries, jokes told to me, music recommendations, books I should (but probably won’t) read, strange thoughts, profound thoughts of [...]

My last batch of cheques got wet during delivery. When they dried out, they puffed up and became all wrinkly.
Now I’m forced to iron out each cheque before sending it off.
Is this money laundering? Will I get busted by Interpol.
Or maybe Interpun, the international organization that monitors bad puns?
Oh, excuse me, I have to run [...]

In January we poor wretches of the north climes spend a lot of time shovelling. And as we we shovel, we have time to meditate. And what do we ponder? Well, snow of course.
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Here are a few more types of snow, sent to me by other shovellers who ponder.
1. The “husband [...]

I am at heart a hibernating mammal. Between the months of January and April, the instincts in the lower back part of my brain instruct me to do the following
1. Find cave
2. Bed down
3. Sleep for three months, give or take a week depending on the weather.
It’s unfortunate that I seem to live in world [...]

Is it just me? Or am I living in Comaville.
International headlines are blaring with dire news of a global sell-off and international market melt-down brought on by the sub-prime mortgage crisis.
Thousands in the US are losing their houses and thousands more will do so in the next six months. Jobs will be lost forestry, manufacturing [...]

The word “Canadian” is now being used as crypto-racist slang, not necessarily against Canadians, but as a veiled slur against blacks.
I first discovered the reference on the Language Log under the post entitled: “No Dogs or Canadians”. The Language Log interprets it as a term emerging from the apparent incongruity: Canada is viewed as the [...]

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If you live in the northern part of the eastern seaboard of North America, you will know that storms can be very indecisive. They seem to wring their hands in despair over whether they should be a wet or powdery or a blizzard, or freezing rain.
Because they can never make up their [...]

Since we’re having fun with lists, here is a list of the worst cliches of 2007.
These are the overused and distorted beyond all recognition words that fall out of the mouths of talking heads who to fill up air time on TV news shows, you know, to help us understand the world around us at [...]

Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. This was sent in by GT commentator Dick. Thanks.
1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.
2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.
3. [...]

Not to spoil the fun, but the party’s over, people.
The local CBC radio station launched a 10-Reasons-to-get-Letterman-to-Nova Scotia contest after local gal Ellen Page appeared on his show. It was all sort of fun until the politicos and branding people hopped on board. Then things started to get embarrassing.
Premier MacDodo pitched a YouTube video [...]

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A cloudy day burst into flame at the very end as the sun dropped below of line of cloud, casting orange, red and pink hues across the underside of the cloud. These shots were taken in Warwickshire in the Cotswolds, a range of hills in Central England. This is where I spent Christmas.
The colours [...]

Yeah!

…thus no pictures in the margin or on slide shows. According to the Flickr blog, they should be back up tomorrow. Fingers crossed.

Good news. Terry O’Reilly is back on the public airwaves with his excellent radio program Age of Persuasion. This is the third season for A of P which airs on CBC Radio 1 Saturdays 11:30-noon.
A of P explores the power and techniques of media, public relations and advertising in culture and politics. The shows are [...]

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You know Them. And They.
They say this. And we listen to Them because They know.

They say drink eight cups of water per day.
You’ll ruin your eyes by reading in dim light, according to Them.
They say your fingernails keep growing even after you’ve expired.

Well guess what. They are wrong. It turns [...]