Gifted Typist

Silver for 25 Gold for 50 But what is the precious metal for #18 I just – just!- remembered that today was the day. Eek. Maybe the precious thing for #18 should be a memory boost.

This morning they fired up the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and started bashing the heck out of protons and it worked.This is the largest experiment ever. They physics geeks are beside themselves and trying to contain their excitement. They think the data produced in these collisions will help us understand – among other things [...]

Cleaning out bookshelves this past week. The idea is that good books should not be condemned to a life of dust collecting on my bookshelves. Also that bookshelves should be dynamic places, with room made for new books, new authors, new ideas. But what to keep? What to donate? Woolf? G Greene, Nietzsche, Sontag, Joseph [...]

Disney is banning fake boobs in its next Pirates flick. Yup, apparently fakes lack the jiggle factor necessary for the authentic 18-century wench. The makers of the movie was the real thang, with all the bounce and to-and-fro. See more about this in my Herald column

I don’t agree with right-wing pundit Ann Coulter. I don’t like her politics or the way she shoves sticks of dynamite into cultural fractures that divide our world. I don’t care for her publicity-seeking ways either. But free speech is an important principle. Free speech is far more important than Ann Coulter. I say let [...]

Just when you thought the evil estheticians have gone far enough by making the full Brazilian a bodily “must have,” now comes vajazzling. Yes people, it’s no longer enough to have your downstairs region hot waxed, defoliated, tattooed and pierced. Now you need crystals “down there.” For more on this development,  link to my column [...]

In this part of the world, it’s not unusual to wait until May or even June for anything that closely resembles spring. Sometimes we go from winter directly to summer with hardly a moment of spring. And sometimes there’s no summer either. But this year spring seems to be in the air early and it [...]

I’m sure the Olympic closing ceremonies were meant with a wink and a nod to Canadian humour, but the thing was tacky beyond belief and came off as a big dose of, well, self-referential Canadian humour. When I saw the inflatable Mounties, the Fred-Flintstone canoe people (with their feet sticking out the bottom) and the [...]