Gifted Typist

See my Herald column over here. They are all around. They are the undead. And they want to suck the life and vitality out of you. We all have energy vampires in our lives: they come in the form of friends, in-laws, ex-spouses and co-workers. They wear you down, exhaust you, force you to surrender. [...]

This would be part of Beth’s Big Wicked Online Pageant. I’ve broken rulz here. I’m supposed to post a cute kid pic of me in a halloween costume. OK, no I wasn’t exactly a child here. Sadly there are no pictures of me as a child dressed up. In fact, this wasn’t even Halloween. And [...]

With just days left in the US election, I’m nervous. I can’t fathom a world lead by McCain and the cartoon-character, moose-hunting, loose-canon, hockey-mom from Wasilla, Alaska. No offense to loose canons. I’m liking Barack Obama’s chances and everything seems to be going well for his campaign. But the Republicans shouldn’t be underestimated. They’re trying [...]

While in New Yawk, I met up with fellow blogger and celebrity analyst BeckEye. We’d never met face-to-face but when I saw the Duran Duran t-shirt I knew it had to be BeckEye. Here are the stats on our meet up: Number of times she mentioned John Travolta:11 Number of times she mentioned Eddie Vedder:8 [...]

Unfortunately, it’s not in the Hendrix sense of the word. See column here. This typist ended up live on Fox News last week while in New York. I was having a drink in the Waldorf (as you do!) when Fox News rolled in to set up one of their yak-yak sessions on the falling markets. [...]

Give me a camera and put me in a city like New York with its energy, history, hustle, architecture, art, characters and icons and I’m in heaven. Here is my photo essay of my excellent weekend in New York. Or you can go to directly to Flickr for more explanation of the shots.

So, I go to New York City anticipating the gruff rudeness you’d expect of the Big Apple …. And what do I get? Some of the friendliest, warmest, nicest people I’ve ever met on city streets. Huh? New Yorkers were falling over themselves to offer directions or point out the sites. When they saw you [...]

There’s New York City. And then there’s Lenny Kravitz. Both of these are high-rise, high-wire, high-octane acts that are hard to follow. And I was lucky enough to do both in one weekend! I’m still out of breath, trying to sort through it all. I’ll get to Lenny first. I knew he was good. I [...]

That’s one of my fave Billie Holiday songs. And that’s where I’m off to this weekend. New Yawk City. Not sure what I’ll get up to: MOMA,  West Village and a walk in Central Park. BeckEye and Eye are planning a meet-up on Saturday. Yeah! (Or should I say, YEye). I was all excited about [...]

The NeoCons won in Canada last night – but they only won a minority. More than anything, NeoCon Harper wanted his majority so he could let his NeoCon pit bulls out of the pen and push his NeoCon agenda down the throat of Canada. But he didn’t get his majority, did he? And he wanted [...]

Today is election day here. Polls have indicated that Canadians are seriously flirting with the idea of giving a majority to the NeoCons who take their inspiration from their US NeoCon brethren – Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, Kristol, etc. The NeoCon leader Stephen Harper has done an admirable job of keeping a lid on the [...]

The little boy typist presented this insight to me the other day. “This re-united band from the old days is the Beyonce of your century,” he said. The band? New Kids on the Block. I’m not sure if I’m more upset by the suggestion that I actually listened to the NKOTB or the fact that [...]

See my Herald column here. Do you sneeze every time you hear a politician speak? Do you have problems breathing because the air is so polluted with political lies, spin and BS. Do you want to wretch as you watch your pension evapourate into the thin air? Do you have political pundit fatigue? If you [...]

These are very strange times indeed. I’ve spent most of the last twenty years worrying because I had no pension or investments or economic certainty. I wasn’t defying conventional wisdom by refusing to contribute to my future. I just never had enough left over at the end of the cycle. My partner and I invested [...]

It’s as though all the telemarketers have found out that I’ve been promoting the DO Not Call List. Since writing a column and post on the new list, I’ve been inundated by calls from them. I’ve been receiving  six and seven calls per day from those strange 1-800-555-5555 numbers. This accounts for 75 percent of [...]