Archive for February 2006

What is Your Favourite Animal?

Everywhere I go people ask me “What is your favourite animal?” And I always have the same answer. (Actually, no one ever asks me, but if they did it would explain this post.) My favourite animal of all time is a lovable, cute, friendly animal. But it is illegal to have this animal as a pet or housed in a … Continue reading

Movies

Three spectacular movies in two days. Dark Passage with Bogart and Bacall. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with Johnny Depp. And The Big White with Robin Williams which was taped partially in good ol’ Winnipeg.

Contemplations

The Divine Image by William Blake in Songs of Innocence (1789) To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love All pray in thier distress; And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love Is God, our father dear, And Mercy, Pity Peace, and Love Is Man, his child and care. For Mercy has a human heart, … Continue reading

I Love Somebody, Yes I do, I love Somebody, but I won’t tell you

As a single fella I find Valentine’s day to be a bit of a drag. Not so much because I have no one to be with but because I am forced to see all those happy people with happy other people. And then the bitterness sets in. Every idiot has found someone.  A complete list of things I don’t understand … Continue reading

Norwood I Dance

The other day I went to the Norwood hotel to see a friend of a friend and his band play. And am I ever glad I did. This was the best non-social social I ever went to. Seeing a bunch of white people who can not dance out on the dance floor doing their best to not look stupid and … Continue reading