Last night, George R.R. Martin was in Toronto, doing a talk at TIFF's Lightbox. I had heard about this very early on and managed to snag myself a ticket back in January before it sold out ( Read more... )

Last week, husband and I had a bit of a conversation about 'doubling up'; basically, having more than one copy of a comic book, whether it be having the issues as well as the trades, or having multiple copies of the same issue (husband got sucked into this a lot during the 90s speculator market as he was a stupid teenager at the time :) ) or even ( Read more... )

(well now that I can FINALLY post again... sheesh ( Read more... )

10am last Tuesday (July 12th), the moment my local Chapters opened, I was there to get my copy. On Graig's urging I took the day off work to read it because I knew I wouldn't be able to concentrate all day ( Read more... )

Of late, I find myself with a couple of new obsessions. Well ok, neither are really 'new' per say, but they've both intensified to become my foremost obsessions for the last/next while ( Read more... )

Last night, despite feeling oh so tired, I did get up to the Toronto Reference Library for one of their free lectures on one of the Shakespearean plays being performed at Stratford this season. I missed the one on Macbeth (which is the play we're actually going to see in May), but I was ok with that given that I've studied Macbeth a few times over ( Read more... )

It's been a very, very long time since I saw a movie that started at 10pm, but last night, after a full day of watching hockey (yay Pittsburgh! too bad 'bout Team Canada though), Graig and I decided we could stay up really late and watch a movie since its a holiday today. We chose Prince Caspian and headed off to Yorkdale ( Read more... )

Believe it or not, I read a lot. I just don't talk about what I read here (well, other than comic books that is) because I have a whole 'nother blog where I keep track of what I'm reading and write up my book reports on them there. So, because I do that, I don't usually mention what I'm reading here, mainly 'cause I'm lazy ( Read more... )

Yes, that is a quote from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and that will be my new mantra for the year ( Read more... )