I finally managed to catch up on responses to the comments that have come in over the last month (my policy is to try to respond to every comment I get – post a “hey Jay” and see if it's true! ) There was one a month ago from Taryn that said this:“Hi Jason, I'm […]
Here's an article that's making the rounds from the New York Times' Fashion & Style section – A Hipper Crowd of Shushers“How did such a nerdy profession become cool — aside from the fact that a certain amount of nerdiness is now cool? Many young librarians and library professors said that the work is no […]
When I posted that jokey one-liner yesterday about the ridiculousness of Madonna lecturing me about saving the environment, I knew her blather was typical celebrity hypocrisy. I didn't realise just how bad she is though. Thanks Madge. Go steal another kid from the third world. (Of course, we live in a world where even “celebrity-as-saviour” […]
I didn't do much about the July 7, 2007 (777) hype. I know there were lots of weddings (and c-sections!) and other milestone type events planned for yesterday. And I know casinos expected to be extremely busy. But it took me until today to realise that Pace was seven weeks old yesterday. So there's another […]
Madonna can't do it but I sincerely believe that Duran Duran still has the power to save the world. Thank God for Simon Le Bon!
In the course of talking to the performer I've booked for our Summer Reading Club tour, he mentioned that a colleague, Bonnie Logan, will be appearing in London, ON for a similar tour. I said that there are still quite a few people from London and area reading this blog so if he passed along […]
So I'll have an optimistic moment like yesterday's post and think that “hey, maybe the planet isn't doomed.” Then I wake up today and, while watching the Live Earth concerts, hear Madonna say “if you want to save the planet, let me see you jump!” And I'll feel sad because I know that the planet […]
The worldwide series of concerts known as Live Earth have started today in Australia and Japan and will be moving around the world for the next 24 hours. Although not directly related to Live Earth, there are a couple relevant sites you might want to check out: Earth Charter is “a declaration of fundamental principles […]
Reddit had a link today to a column from the Wall Street Journal which attempts to explain why the young people today feel so damn entitled. Turns out the blame lies squarely at the feet of Mr. Rogers. Signs of narcissism among college students have been rising for 25 years, according to a recent study […]
I'm sort of working in reverse here. The following is the first eulogy I ever did. I had little idea what I was doing at the time but I knew that I wanted to do something unique and different to capture my grandma (who was both of those things) rather than the traditional “this person was born here, married him/her, did this for a living, died here, is survived by” paint-by-numbers type eulogy.
