It’s illegal to do that in this province but people do. Apparently they don’t think it’s dangerous.

Well, it is dangerous to your health and mine. Some studies point out that its as dangerous as drinking and driving.

My column this week

But it’s true.

A bunch of kids were kicked off a quiet suburban street in April for playing road hockey.

In this world of troubled teens, obese kids and too many video games, someone decided to call the cops and complain about the kids playing hockey on the street.

Too much noise probably. Or maybe this person is tired of waiting two or three seconds while the kids move the nets off the street.

Instead of yelling “caaaaaaar!”

They should yell “priiiiiiick!”

There’s more along these lines in my column.

* Used 3 times: Tomorrow
* Used 3 times: Everyone
* Used 3 times: Hot
* Used 2 times: Home
* Used 2 times: Bookshelves
* Used 2 times: Asterix
* Used 2 times: Temp
* Used 2 times: Keep
* Used 2 times: Happy
* Used 2 times: Halifax
* Used 2 times: Raised
* Used 2 times: Centre
* Used 2 times: Metro
* Used 2 times: Film
* Used 2 times: Thanks
* Used 2 times: Speech

I guess you’ll have to see for yourself.

Link here for the column

I disagree with his occasional racial slurs. They are stupid.

He dresses in suits that look like they were made from the leftover material from his grandmother’s curtains.

He’s loud, impolite and he points.

But he is a character. He’s a proud Canadian and a very unCanadian Canadian.

He defies the stereotype of quiet, mannerly and polite.

Canada needs more characters.

That’s why I like Don Cherry.

Here is my column on this subject.

I just – just!- remembered that today was the day. Eek.

Maybe the precious thing for #18 should be a memory boost.

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 – the first moments of the universe.

The last two attempts to get the thing going failed so it was a rather pressurized environment there at CERN this morning.

But now they are shooting beams through the underground network of tunnels and producing collisions and new particles that will give us new information about our world.
The models are beautiful.

These experiments will tell us about the formation of the matter, dark matter and the extra dimensions that may exist around us.

It is a very exciting time.

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 Campbell, 19th century novels, travel lit.

Asterix? – no, Asterix stays, ditto Wodehouse & JK Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat – the funniest book every written (IMHO).

What is your criteria for keeping vs. letting go?

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