I’ve been trying to greatly reduce my beer drinking from summer camping levels (essentially down to one per week instead of one per hour!) and I’m also trying to drink only terrible tasting low-carb beer (fuck, I’m old.) But I made a special exception for one last beer I had left from our Calgary trip […]
Shea and I went to see “Book of Mormon” today, one of the most successful, long-running Broadway shows of all-time, written and produced by the same guys who made South Park. I’ve been a fan of South Park since someone told me about “Rainbows? I hate rainbows!” but I don’t watch it as religiously (pun […]
Shea and I are binging “Handmaid’s Tale” right now and both loving it (while also regularly cringing!) but if pressed, I’d still say “Breaking Bad” is my favourite TV show of all-time. (It’s up there for Shea too but I think she picks “The Wire” as her all-time favourite.) Anyhow, can’t wait for this…
They don’t match perfectly but this is still pretty cool…
The penultimate episode of “Game of Thrones” has aired and, as usual, there have been all sorts of reactions – positive, negative, questioning, sentimental, memetic. Of everything I’ve read since watching the episode, this post on Reddit which speaks to how so much of how we respond to art (books, movies, television, etc.) is based […]
James Holzhauer hasn’t caught Ken Jennings in terms of number of victories in a row but he’s setting records for most money won per game which is arguably a more impressive achievement? His secret? Studying easy-to-read introductory books on a wide variety of subjects at the children’s library!
If you’re looking for an alternative to the ubiquitous yule log channels/videos at this time of year, try “Shit Fireplace” (and I’m proud to say the co-creator of these videos is a colleague at RPL!)
Following up on my post earlier this week about the death of the Dynamite Kid, here’s another wrestling related one… Eric Bischoff started as an announcer in the old AWA then worked his way up until he was head of WCW when it came close to knocking off WWE as the dominant wrestling promotion in the […]
The Dynamite Kid is the reason I’m a wrestling fan. I was fortunate to grow up in Western Canada during the heyday of Stampede Wrestling and I remember coming across this strange “ring-a-ding-dong dandy” spectacle on the TV when I was 7 or 8 years old. Many of the wrestlers had interesting names and personas […]
